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Irvine,California 92697
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DEGREES OFFERED

Bachelor of Arts in Drama - Acting

Bachelor of Arts in Drama - Design

Bachelor of Arts in Drama - Drama

Bachelor of Arts in Drama - Directing

Bachelor of Arts in Drama - Stage Management

Master of Fine Arts in Acting

Master of Fine Arts in Directing

Master of Fine Arts in Stage Management

Master of Fine Arts in Design

Master of Fine Arts in Music Direction

Bachelor of Fine Arts in Musical Theatre

Doctor of Philosophy in Drama and Theatre


UCI Drama is one of the four departments comprising the Claire Trevor School of the Arts, which provides students with extensive opportunities to work in collaboration with students and faculty in the School’s closely-related programs - Dance, Music and Studio Art. Therefore, within the School, cross-disciplinary creative opportunities - such as video art, multi-media performance, opera, dance theatre and performance art - continually flourish. Nor are interdisciplinary connections limited to within our School – Drama enjoys fruitful relations with a great many departments and programs across the campus, including English, History, Comparative Literature, Political Science, Computer Science, Asian American Studies, African American Studies, East Asian Languages and Literature, Critical Theory, Spanish and Portuguese, German and Russian, and French and Italian. And Drama’s Ph.D. studies are conducted as part of a comprehensive joint program – the first such in the nation - with our sister campus, UC San Diego.

Notable Alumni Include:

Cameron Henderson, Jenifer Foote, Mark Bedard, Jesse Sharp, Tyler Seiple, Nich Kauffman, Jennice Butler, Alison Plott, Nicole Erb, Ryan Imhoff, Beth Lopes, Perry Young, Quinn VanAntwerp, Alan Mingo, Jr., Andrew Samonsky, Teal Wicks, Jenn Colella, Michael Morgan, Eric Weaver, Ashley Moniz, Pippa Winslow-Rolandelli, Annie Nelson




Faculty Info:

Lonnie Alcaraz, Stephen Barker, Cynthia Bassham, Andrew Borba, Richard Brestoff, Robin Buck, Juliette Carrillo, Robert Cohen, Myrona DeLaney, Efren Delgadillo Jr., Zachary Dietz, Holly Poe Durbin, Marcia (Marcy) Froehlich, Don Hill, Michael Hooker, Ketu Katrak, Martin Katz, Anthony Kubiak, Daphne Lei, Annie Loui, Mihai Maniutiu, Ian Munro, Vincent Olivieri, Jane Page, Andrew Palermo, Zachary Price, Bryan Reynolds, Tara Rodman, Eli Simon, Jaymi Lee Smith, Philip Thompson, Joel Veenstra.



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