Deparment of Drama | Irvine, CA

4000 Mesa Rd
Irvine, California 92697
949.824.6614
admissions@uci.edu

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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

About the program

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

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

Acceptance rate

Reported acceptance rate (source/year not provided by school): The University of California, Irvine (UCI) has an overall acceptance rate of 26%

Faculty

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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