Performance Production
Bring performances to life. Prepare for an exciting career as a stage manager or production designer. Specialize in costumes, lighting, scenic, or sound design. Learn from working professionals in both classroom and real-life production settings.Loading...
BFA in Performance Production
What Will You Learn as a Performance Production Major at Cornish?
Learn what it takes to build a production from the idea to a reality. Collaborate with faculty mentors and fellow students across disciplines throughout the production process. Master your specific discipline and gain hands-on experience. Develop your communication and management skills. Blend historical and theoretical knowledge with new technologies.
Choose from our five concentrations:
- Costume Design
- Lighting Design
- Scenic Design
- Sound Design
- Stage Management
Learn more about our BFA degree requirements and review our model programs/advising worksheets below in Explore Your Major.
Cornish Stories: Performance Production
My education at Cornish gave me a wide range of experience that has proved invaluable in the professional theatre world … all the work I’ve gotten since graduating has been thanks to connections made while attending Cornish.Shelby Choo (PP ’16)
Explore Performance Production Concentrations
And, most importantly, I found my passion. I found the one thing in this world I was meant to do. The thing that energizes me, that forces me to keep a notebook next to my bed so I can write down the ideas that come all night instead of sleep.Kendra Lee (PP ’15), 2015 Commencement speaker
Art | Performance Production | Theater
Rachel Brinn
Department Coordinator
Art, Theater, and Performance Production
Performance Production
Melanie Burgess
Faculty Chair
Associate Professor of Costume Design
Performance Production
Matthew Smucker
Associate Professor of Scenic Design
Performance Production
Bret Torbeck
Assistant Professor of Stage Management
Performance Production
Jessica Christensen
Instructor of Scenic Painting | Paint & Stage Properties Supervisor
Performance Production
Tom Fallat
Instructor, Sound Design
Performance Production
Peter Maradudin
Instructor of Lighting Design
Faculty Emeriti | Performance Production
Karen Gjelsteen, Professor Emerita | 1980 – 2013
John Kendall Wilson, Professor Emeritus, Performance Production | 1989 – 2019
