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583 USD/credit 17490 USD/year
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About

The MFA Acting at Ohio University is a rigorous three-year training program, led by a faculty of working theater practitioners.

Overview

The MFA Acting at Ohio University is structured accordingly:

The Professional Actor Training Program

  • The Professional Actor Training Program (PATP) prepares advanced students for careers as professional actors, with the expectation that students will take responsibility for the depth and development of their own artistic practices. A class of ten is admitted once every three years, and each student is closely mentored by a faculty committed to individual student growth. 
  • The training is dedicated to producing process-driven, skillful, and creative actor/artists with a specific and personal approach to the craft of acting. To meet the demands of the 21st century, actors must have expertise in a range of styles and be adept at working in any medium. We offer a comprehensive progression in acting, voice and speech, and movement. Additional coursework includes on-camera technique, stage combat, devised and solo work, text analysis, specialized areas of voice and movement, audition techniques and business practices.

The Acting Studios

  • With a strong foundation in the Meisner Technique, the first year of training puts rigorous emphasis on the authentic use of self and the collaborative process. The second year of training focuses on creating complex characters through application of the foundation work to scenes, exercises and performance. Style work begins in the second half of the second year with a semester long focus on playing Shakespeare. 

    In the movement studio, emphasis is placed on the human body as an instrument of expression; on developing strength, alignment, flexibility, availability and stamina. Voice and speech training centers on releasing habitual tension, increasing power and range, and utilizing specific speech choices.

  • The third year bridges the past and the present: encompassing a range of contemporary and period style work as well as integrated studies of the actor in new media. Third year students will work with a wide range of industry professionals and hone their audition technique and business acumen in classroom and professional settings.

Performance Opportunities

  • Every actor performs a minimum of one role per semester. This may be in the School of Theater’s main stage offerings, Tantrum Theater productions, or studio/laboratory productions. Actors also work regularly in the development and production of new plays: both in workshop and in the annual Seabury Quinn Jr., Playwright’s Festival, in collaboration with the students in the MFA Playwriting Program. 
  • Collaborations with the School of Film are common, and actors will have ample opportunity to work on camera and build a professional reel. In all cases, emphasis is placed on the student’s ability to synthesize the work of the studio with the practical realities of his or her casting.

Professional Opportunities

  • Actors will be given the opportunity to work with the Tantrum Theater, which operates under an Actor’s Equity Association contract through U/RTA. Equity Membership Candidacy is available to participating actors. A wide range of industry guests visit campus each year - frequently for extended workshops.

Internship Opportunities

  • Internships are required, and a range of professional internships are available to all MFA candidates in acting.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

  • Voice and Speech: Release of Physical Tension and Connection to Impulse
  • Movement Foundation: Bartenieff Fundamentals, Yoga and Authentic Movement. Temporal and spatial explorations via Viewpoints and Laban Movement Analysis. Ensemble building and creating original movement scores.
  • Acting Foundation: Meisner Technique
  • Movement Foundation: Suzuki, Viewpoints, Neutral Mask
  • Focusing Voice and Speech through Action  

Key information

Duration

  • Full-time
    • 36 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Credits

90 SCH

Delivered

On Campus

Academic requirements

GPA admission requirements GPA
3

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Other requirements

General requirements

  • Admission to the PATP is by interview and audition, conducted at the University/Resident Theater Association (U/RTA) National Unified Auditions in New York and Chicago, as well as on the OU campus in Athens. The U/RTA auditions are typically held in late January and early February, and on campus auditions begin as early as November of the previous year and often extend into April. 
  • Videotaped auditions and Skype interviews will be considered for international students. 
  • Three letters of recommendation
  • Head shot and acting resume
  • Statement of purpose
  • Undergraduate transcripts

Tuition Fee

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  • International

    32370 USD/year
    Tuition Fee
    Based on the tuition of 1079 USD per credit during 36 months.
  • National

    32370 USD/year
    Tuition Fee
    Based on the tuition of 1079 USD per credit during 36 months.
  • In-State

    17490 USD/year
    Tuition Fee
    Based on the tuition of 583 USD per credit during 36 months.

Living costs for Athens

1079 - 1780 USD /month
Living costs

The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.

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