Alpha Psi Omega
Waldorf University 剧院 is home to the Alpha Epsilon Omega cast of Alpha Psi Omega National 剧院 Honor Society (APO). APO is a society for highly involved theatre students (both majors and non-majors) that serves the theatre program by sponsoring events and fund raisers, assisting in workshops and career development programs for the department, and working to develop future theatre trips to Minneapolis, 芝加哥, New York and London.
Black Box/Loose Change Program
Waldorf theatre students operate their own theatre space, the Waldorf University Black Box. The Black Box can be used as a rehearsal and performance space and is operated exclusively by and for students. Any student can propose a “Loose Change” production for the Black Box. A Loose Change production is a student-directed production of a full-length play or one-act.
Kennedy Center American College 剧院 Festival
Waldorf University is an active member in the Kennedy Center American College 剧院 Festival. We invite KCACTF members to view our season shows and to deliver a response. Certain productions may be selected to travel to KCACTF regional festivals. KCACTF respondents also select student actors for the Irene Ryan Acting Competition. Each winter, our student and faculty travel to the regional festival for workshops, competition and a fine series of plays from our region.
Original Practices at Waldorf University
Each fall, Waldorf 剧院 presents a work of Shakespeare as part of its season. While Shakespeare can be intimidating to a lot of people, we try to approach Shakespeare as he would have: an engaging experience that seeks out actor-audience interaction. In order to approach this interactive experience, we use several of Shakespeare’s “original staging practices” including universal lighting, live acoustic music and many others. We equip our actors with everything they need to speak Shakespeare’s words clearly with precise understandings of the line and a sense of play. 每一个可能, students work with theatre faculty to form a production company that performs work using the original practices model.
The 24-Hour 剧院 Project
每年, Waldorf University 剧院 produces the 24-hour 剧院 Project (24HTP), in which members of the Waldorf community write, 排练, 记住, 服装, design the set/lights/sound and perform a production within one 24-hour period.
剧院 Camp
Required for all theatre scholarship recipients, theatre camp occurs in late August and serves as a “warm up” for the year. We engage in workshops, improvisation, theatre work calls, scholarship meetings, movies, and more.
剧院 Leadership
每年, students can interview to be a theatre leader. These hired positions for those eligible for federal or institutional work study allow students to take a significant role in the management or operation of the Waldorf University theatre season. Positions include assistant technical director, box office manager, 服装 shop manager, head of house operations, lighting designer, set designer and more.
剧院 Scholarships
We award scholarships to majors and non-majors. 学生 under scholarship usually maintain weekly work hours in the theatre shops and box office and also audition (actors) or interview (technicians) for our season shows.