Theater
Take advantage of an expanding universe of opportunity in theater. Build your skills for stage, film, and television. Experiment with web-based, immersive, and site-specific performance. Specialize in Musical Theater or Acting & Original Works. As a theater student at Cornish, you’ll perfect your technical skills while letting your imagination run wild.
BFA in Acting + Original Works
BFA in Musical Theater
What Will You Learn
as A Theater Major at Cornish?
Hone your skills as a performer, through acting, movement, and vocal technique work.
Become an excellent collaborator and communicator. Work with your fellow theater students and collaborate across disciplines at Cornish. Learn to think critically, apply context, and analyze theatrical texts.
Develop yourself as a creator, through writing, directing, devising, producing, improvisation, and more.
Scenic Design, Sound Design, and Stage Management
should visit our Performance Production Department.
Explore Your Major
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Student Work
![The Clown Show <br> [Excerpts from the 2018 Performance]](http://www.cornish.edu/wp-content/uploads/ewpt_cache/300x240_95_1_c_FFFFFF_0741927df270be46e6f38fc50511d1a6.jpg)
![The Lore Project <br> [Full 2019 Performance]](http://www.cornish.edu/wp-content/uploads/ewpt_cache/300x240_95_1_c_FFFFFF_04e4f984322be1e730f472b8543471df.jpg)
Timothy McCuen Piggee
Professor, Acting | Musical Theater
Faculty Chair
Victoria Watts
Department Chair
Dance | Theater
Rachel Brinn
Department Coordinator
Art, Theater, and Performance Production
Michele Ainza
Interim Professor of Dance
Instructor, Theater
Sheila Daniels
Professor
Acting | Directing | Devising
Tinka Gutrick Dailey
Assistant Professor
Musical Theater
Kaela Mei-Shing Garvin
Instructor
Playwriting and Theater History
Richard Gray
Assistant Professor
Singing | Musical Theater Acting | Audition Technique
Kate Myre
Professor
Voice | Voiceover
Robin Lynn Smith
Professor
Acting
Geoffrey Alm
Instructor, Stage Combat
Amelia Bolyard
Instructor, Dance
Desdemona Chiang
Instructor, Acting
Jeannette d'Armand
Instructor, Voice | Singing
Sarah Harlett
Instructor, Acting
Jacob Alfredo Hutchison
Instructor, Theater History
Marc Kenison
Instructor, Neo Burlesque
Amy LaZerte
Instructor, Production Lab
Charlie Johnson
Instructor
Claire Marx
Instructor, Musical Theater Voice
Meg McLynn
Instructor, Voice + Speech
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
Faculty Emeriti | Theater
John Kendall Wilson, Professor Emeritus, Theater | 1989 – 2019
Hal Ryder, Professor Emeritus | 1982 – 2017
