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Express your artistic vision<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

and prepare for a career in directing<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Boston University’s 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. Students are prepared for directing careers, with special emphasis on understanding the American theatre and its’ contemporary applications to narrative performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ranked nationally as a top directing program:<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

listed in Backstage’s 19 MFA Programs you should know about in 2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

additional cfa rankings<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in directing at BU is individually designed with each student\u2019s artistic strengths, challenges, and personal ambitions in mind. Each School of Theatre<\/a> (SOT) MFA directing student receives extensive experience in the rehearsal hall in a sequence of projects chosen to stretch and showcase their strengths. Directing students get to direct several of SOT’s productions per season in a variety of venues with ever-growing access to designers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The program centers around identifying and growing students’ artistic voices, honing their craft and techniques, and connecting to the profession in a meaningful way. What makes BU’s directing program stand out? The quality. Quality of productions. Quality of peers. Quality of actors. BU MFA directing graduates become freelance directors or artistic directors, running their own companies or teaching. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What I really like about our program is that there\u2019s a lot of production opportunities, coupled with intense classwork. There is a good balance here between being in rehearsal and being back in the lab (classroom) working on aspects of the rehearsal process.<\/div>