WHAT KINDS OF FINANCIAL AID ARE AVAILABLE?
In addition to university aid packages, specific stipends and scholarships are available through the Department of Theatre
to qualified students. Students holding stipends and scholarships must remain active in department activities
and must remain current in the completion of their core requirements. Our available scholarships include:
- THE UAB DEAN'S SCHOLARSHIPS - ($1,000)
- RUBY LLOYD APSEY and DAVID LLOYD SCHOLARSHIPS - ($500 to $3,000)
- FANNIE FLAGG/KATHY WAITE ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP - ($250 to $1,000)
- BILL OZIER MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP - ($250 to $1,000)
- The online application form is here.
- We have a form to print out and mail in as an Adobe Acrobat file here.
- We have a form to print out and mail in as a Word document here.
CAN I STUDY MORE THAN ONE ASPECT OF THEATRE?
Absolutely. We offer a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree in theatre.
This is a broad study of acting, design, directing, technical theatre, and theatre history.
Within this is a core of theatre courses and three tracks of specialization:
- General Theatre
- Pre-professional performance
- Pre-professional design and technology.
HOW ARE ROLES CAST AT UAB?
The UAB Department of Theatre offers several types of performance experiences for the UAB undergraduate theatre student.
These range from fully mounted main stage productions in the Odess and Sirote theatres, Actor Showcase presentations directed by
faculty, the annual Festival of Ten-Minute Plays, and student-generated one act plays and scenes. The department views all
productions as extensions of student training.
The department maintains a policy of non-traditional casting. All auditions are open and equal consideration is given to freshmen, sophomores,
juniors, and seniors. Roles are assigned based on the needs of the production and in an attempt to further the development
of each individual student.
The official casting priority is in this order:
- Department majors
- other UAB students
- UAB Faculty and Staff
- People from outside UAB
ARE THEATRE UAB FACULTY MEMBERS REALLY EXPERTS IN THEIR FIELDS?
Our faculty is made up of award-winning theatre professionals with decades of
experience and a roster of impressive credits too lengthy to post here.
Many of our faculty are members of the Actor's Equity Association (AEA) or the
Screen Actor's Guild (SAG), and the rest hold membership in exclusive professional organizations such as the
Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers (SSDC),
The Dramatists Guild (DG),
and the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employes (IATSE).
They have personal and professional connections to theatre companies all over the
country and are frequently sought out for extracurricular projects in those venues.
DO STUDENTS GET TO DESIGN MAIN-SEASON PRODUCTIONS?
Absolutely. Qualified students are encouraged to design lights, sets, and costumes for these shows.
Even more frequently, they serve as technical directors and stage managers. In all cases, our students have won major
student design and management awards during their time with Theatre UAB.
TO SUM IT UP -- WHAT DOES THEATRE UAB HAVE THAT OTHER UNIVERSITY PROGRAMS DON'T?
It's a combination of things. Add all of these together and you'll see what we mean:
- Theatre UAB is committed to its stated pro-student casting policy.
- Theatre UAB has pre-professional tracks in performance & design/technology.
- Theatre UAB produces 5 or 6 major productions each year, plus numerous workshops, staged readings, and scene stagings.
- Theatre UAB brings in high-quality professional workshops and guest artists.
- Theatre UAB uses student designers and stage managers for its main season shows.
- Theatre UAB collaborates with the Departmentof Communications to make films.
- Theatre UAB has a large and extremely professional full-time theatre faculty.
- Theatre UAB has strong relationships with various Equity theatre companies, which improves your chances of finding work after graduation.
- Theatre UAB has two new state-of-the-art theatres for the production of plays.
- Theatre UAB has four professional touring companies, offering extraordinary training for qualified students as well as priceless experience in touring, theatre management, elementary education, and on-the-spot problem solving -- and financial support for the students cast in each year's tour groups.
- UAB is located in the Magic City: Birmingham -- Alabama's largest city, with all of the modern conveniences of restaurants, movies, professional sports, and major music tours -- and, of course, excellent area theatres...
- Theatre UAB has a large and highly skilled full-time staff.
- Theatre UAB courses are taught by experienced and knowledgable artists who are also gifted educators with specializations including stage combat, vocal projection and articulation, costume design, lighting design, scenic design, acting for the stage, acting for the camera, dialects, directing, movement, stage management, playwriting, screenwriting, theatre history, play analysis, computer-assisted drawing, advanced techniques in costume construction, and much, much more ...