The MFA Directing program provides early career professionals with the opportunity to cultivate their artistic identities and professional objectives while refining and enhancing their technical skills and range. The program is individually designed with each student's artistic strengths, challenges and personal ambitions in mind. Its goals are to extend, intensify and focus the director's theatrical versatility, sensibilities, scholarship and imagination; to explore and enhance creative collaborations with actors, designers and playwrights; to consider the pragmatic aspects of the profession and to envision possibilities for new artistic leadership in American theatre.
Students are prepared for substantive careers, either as resident or free-lance directors, with special emphasis on understanding the American regional theatre and other not-for-profit venues. An "artistic director option" is available that joins the MFA directing curriculum with a graduate certificate program in Arts Administration at Boston University's Metropolitan College.
The School of Theatre admits one or two students each year to the program, which is jointly sponsored by the School of Theatre and the Huntington Theatre Company. Students regularly interact with the Boston University faculty and with guest artists and staff from the School's Professional Theatre Initiative partners, most notably the Huntington Theatre Company and the Boston Playwrights' Theatre, including the Director of the School of Theatre, Jim Petosa, and Peter DuBois, HTC Artistic Director. Through the Professional Theatre Initiative and Boston University's New Play Initiative, students have the opportunity to meet regularly with Boston's finest theatre artists as well as with nationally acclaimed theatre makers including Richard Nelson, Darko Tresjnak, Theresa Rebeck, Nicholas Martin, and Mark Brokaw.
For more information or to schedule a visit, please contact program head Judy Braha