Cornish Programs
Theater
The creative opportunities open to theater graduates are greater today than at any time in history. Stage, film, and television are joined by web-based, immersive, and site-specific performance. You can reinvent the classics, tap dance in a musical, and take your solo show to Australia or China. Find these opportunities as a Cornish Theater student.
What To Expect
BFA
in Theater
Perform stirring contemporary plays or vibrant musicals in the historic Raisbeck Hall or the Cornish Playhouse, join the first cast for a classmate’s new one-act on an intimate black box stage. Record an animation voiceover for a Design student or collaborate with Film colleagues on a web series for mobile. Explore improvisation, classical drama, neo-burlesque, solo performance, clowning, and anything else we can dream up.
Learn more about our BFA degree requirements and review our model programs/advising worksheets below in Explore Your Major.
Explore Your Major
![The Clown Show <br> [Excerpts from the 2018 Performance]](https://mk0cornishqntt591tiw.kinstacdn.com/wp-content/uploads/ewpt_cache/300x300_95_1_c_FFFFFF_71a6895a629fcf341d561a918b105b2c.jpg)
![The Lore Project <br> [Full 2019 Performance]](https://mk0cornishqntt591tiw.kinstacdn.com/wp-content/uploads/ewpt_cache/300x300_95_1_c_FFFFFF_04e4f984322be1e730f472b8543471df.jpg)
Richard E.T. White
Department Chair
Samantha Vale
Department Coordinator
Sheila Daniels
Professor
Acting | Directing | Devising
Timothy McCuen Piggee
Professor
Acting | Musical Theater
Kate Myre
Professor
Voice | Voiceover
Robin Lynn Smith
Professor
Acting
Ellie Rose
Professor
Voice | Yoga | Physical Technique
Geoffrey Alm
Instructor, Stage Combat
Amelia Bolyard
Instructor, Dance
Desdemona Chiang
Instructor, Acting
Jeannette d'Armand
Instructor, Voice | Singing
Liz McCarthy French
Instructor, Musical Theater
Kaela Mei-Shing Garvin
Instructor, Playwriting
Christopher Goodson
Instructor, Theater History
Sarah Harlett
Instructor, Acting
Jacob Alfredo Hutchison
Instructor, Theater History
Amy LaZerte
Instructor, Production Lab
Claire Marx
Instructor, Musical Theater Voice
Meg McLynn
Instructor, Voice + Speech
Trina Mills
Instructor
Claudine Mboligikpelani Nako
Instructor
Aaron Norman
Instructor, Voice | Singing
Michael Place
Instructor, Mask + Clown
Candice Pullom
Instructor, Voice
Jaclyn Stapp
Instructor, Private Voice
Guillaume Tourniaire
Instructor, Theater History
Katjana Vadeboncoeur
Instructor, Neo-Burlesque | Senior Seminar
Shawn Belyea
Producer, Production Lab
Richard Gray
Assistant Professor
Singing | Musical Theater Acting | Audition Technique
Faculty Emeriti | Theater
John Kendall Wilson, Professor Emeritus, Theater | 1989 – 2019
Hal Ryder, Professor Emeritus | 1982 – 2017
