When you choose the acting emphasis, you receive
individualized studio training covering voice, movement, period styles, stage combat,
script analysis, role preparation, and scene study. Training is also available in film acting, as are opportunities to work on feature length films. A production
season of six to eight full-length shows, numerous showcases, and musical theatre productions insure you,
whether a freshman or a senior, have ample opportunities to perform.
- Unique to Ole Miss is our sophomore, junior, and senior Studio program, in which classes are taught by three faculty members—an acting specialist, a movement specialist, and a voice and speech specialist. This team teaching approach promotes integration of body, voice, and acting techniques.
- Students have four years of training with individualized attention in role preparation, scene study, and script analysis; voice and speech from faculty certified in Fitzmaurice Voicework and Linklater Technique; and movement training including Laban and Alexander techniques, armed and unarmed stage combat work that prepares students for certification by the American Society of Fight Directors, and exercises acquainting students with movement, gesture, and dance styles of historical periods.
- Sophomore, junior, and senior Studios train students to fuse Stanislavsky-based internal process with external movement and vocal techniques. Our unique Studio format allows faculty experts in all three areas to work together on a highly individualized basis, resulting in the minimizing of natural weaknesses and maximizing natural strengths.
- Students also receive specialized training in acting styles appropriate to the performance of verse drama and mannered comedy as well as the farce style of Commedia dell'Arte.
- If you're interested in a BFA with an acting emphasis from Ole Miss, take a look at the courses we offer: BFA acting degree requirements.
For more information, e-mail Joe Turner Cantú at jtcantu@olemiss.edu.
The Department of Theatre Arts at the University of Mississippi is accredited by NAST,
the National Association of Schools of Theatre.
