Welcome to the Wisconsin Interscholastic Theatre Festival directory of College & University programs.
UW-Stevens Point offers three conservatory-styled BFA programs in Musical Theatre, Acting and Design & Technology. In addition, we offer the BA Drama major, which allows students to study multiple focused areas such as playwriting, dramaturgy, directing, design, and acting.
NWU Theatre produces 40+ shows running on 200 nights each year. NWU faculty direct as many as 14 productions each year, including three to four musicals, Shakespeare and classic to modern dramas. And NWU students direct, write and produce an additional 20 or more plays annually.
In the UW-Whitewater Theatre/Dance program, you learn it all. Each student has opportunities to experience different paths from front of the house and on the stage to behind the scenes. The program is highly hands-on offering an array of majors from Performance to Design/Tech or Stage Management and Theatre Education.
Offering BA and BFA degrees, UMD Theatre provides academic and professional training in a facility that includes a flexible thrust/proscenium theatre, a black-box experimental theatre, fully equipped scenic and costume shops, computerized lighting, sound and media projection systems, and studio space for acting, dance and design students.
The Department of Theatre and Drama is home to talented students learning and training alongside faculty with diverse experiences in the performing arts. Our department produces several performances per year in two theatre spaces fully equipped with scenic, prop, and costume shops, plus state-of-the-art lighting and sound labs.
UW-Parkside offers Concentrations in Acting, Musical Theatre, Directing, Design & Technology, or Stage Management. Our campus is ideally located between Milwaukee and Chicago, two important markets for actors in theatre, film and television. Parkside students gain exclusive access to a number of professional internship agreements with leading theatres in the