Department Overview
Message from the Chair | Mission Statement

The Department of Theatre is one of seven units in The Ohio State University College of the Arts which also includes the Departments of Art, Art Education, History of Art, Dance, Industrial Design, the School of Music, and the Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design. This organizational consolidation of departments and a school dedicated to scholarly and artistic achievement in the arts provides a united approach to education and training in all of the arts.

The Department of Theatre offers a Bachelor of Arts degree for Undergraduate majors and the Master of Arts, Master of Fine Arts, and the Doctor of Philosophy degrees for Graduate students. There is also opportunity for the creation of interdisciplinary and personalized study programs.

The Department has a full-time faculty of 20 well-qualified professors whose backgrounds cover a wide range of specialties in performance and academic areas of theatre. They are supplemented by additional expert non-teaching staff and part-time teachers, and by scholars and artists in other disciplines. The Department provides the University and the Columbus community with an active production program, including five to six major productions during the academic year as well as regular productions in the Studio Theatre.