Overview

They produce four Main Stage performances each year, as well as a number of smaller student-produced experiences to which the entire campus and Greenville community are invited. The Theatre Arts program at Furman University ranges from modern to classical, comedy to tragedy, musical to non-musical. Students collaborate with faculty and get involved in every aspect of the production, from costumes to set design, management to promotion, lighting to sound.

Career Opportunities

Want to know where a theatre arts degree can take you? The answers may be farther reaching than you can imagine.

Studying theatre arts at Furman will give you the foundation to go anywhere in the entertainment industry. The program produces a number of professional actors, and our graduates are also producers, costume designers, set designers, lighting and sound specialists, and theatre professors. Alumni from this program are working in TV, movies, on and off Broadway theatres, and regional theatres around the country, and in higher education.

Best of all, you’ll discover that a liberal arts degree is in high demand when you graduate. In addition to enhancing your technical skills, you’ll leave Furman knowing how to think critically, communicate effectively, learn deeply, see things from multiple perspectives, and evaluate and create collaboratively. These are skills that can be applied to any career and it’s part of the reason our graduates are so successful.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Visual and Performing Arts

Costume Crafts

Principles of Costume Technology

Fabric Identification

Movement for the Actor

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 48 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2027-08-26 00:00:00
- Apply before 2027-01-15 00:00:00

Language

English

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Credits

120 SCH

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Greenville, United States

Disciplines

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

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Other requirements

General requirements

Choose an Application Plan

Complete the Common Application or the Coalition Application

Submit your School Report

Submit your Official Transcript

Demonstrate English Proficiency

Submit the Furman Financial Information Form & the CSS Profile

Tuition Fees

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Non-residents

61034 USD / year

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Out-of-State

61034 USD / year

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Domestic

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In-State

61034 USD / year

≈ 61034 USD / year

Living costs

Greenville

United States

1083 - 1850 USD / month

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Credits

Delivered

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Academic requirements

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General requirements

Tuition Fees

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Living costs

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