THE SHAKESPEARE IN PERFORMANCE MINOR AT AVE MARIA UNIVERSITY

The Shakespeare in Performance minor:

  • Teaches you how to speak Shakespeare’s language with skill, power, confidence, and purpose. This ability will help you express yourself more convincingly in the real world.

  • Offers in depth study of his plays so that you will grow as an actor and in your understanding of the human condition. You will become an intelligent reader of another person’s story, whether that story belongs to the character you play or to someone else in your life.

  • Welcomes student bands and musicians, music majors, and those who can sing and dance in numbers that range from musical theater to the hit songs of today. Plays might include modern, contemporary, or even hip hop dance routines, as well as covers of pop songs or Broadway classics with fresh lyrics or arrangements.

  • Provides access to the amazing and uniquely designed Donahue Family Black Box Theater for classes, rehearsals, and productions.

  • Is your opportunity for training in voice, dramaturgy, movement, and a common artistic vocabulary of acting as a gift of self.

  • Includes membership in a legendary performance troupe that plays to sold-out audiences every year.

Required courses (2 total):

HUMS/LITR 206: Shakespeare
*HUMS/LITR/COMM/THEA 330: Shakespeare in Performance

*Shakespeare in Performance may and should be taken more than once because the course stages different plays and offers new theatrical and production work to students each time. For the same reasons, Shakespeare in Performance is cross-listed in HUMS, LITR, COMM, and THEA and fulfills elective requirements towards the minor.

* An audition is required to take the Shakespeare in Performance course and earn the minor.

Elective courses (4 total):

THEA 206: Fundamentals of Acting I
THEA 207: Fundamentals of Acting II
THEA 417: Special Topics (e.g., Clowning in Shakespeare, or Acting and Directing, Ensemble Shakespeare)
HUMS/THEA/COMM/THEA 330: Shakespeare in Performance

*Dr. Travis Curtright may approve other elective courses appropriate for the minor.

Shakespeare in Performance Scholarships:

Amounts vary and duration may continue up to 4 years as an undergraduate student at Ave Maria University

​Requirements: 

  • Successful audition and approved application.

  • Declare and pursue the Shakespeare in Performance Minor.

  • Yearly renewal of the scholarship based on a performance evaluation.

  • Audition for plays every year.