For Designers

On Campus Submissions

If you are interviewing on campus, bring your resume and review the interview questions above and consider your answers so that you can discuss your perspective with a faculty member at the on site interview. Bring your portfolio of designs and drawings and any photos of realized productions.

Online Submissions

If you are sending an online submission, please send a link to an electronic portfolio, or send a CD of your portfolio. If you do not have a portfolio, just send whatever visuals you might have of a production you designed. Please include a resume of productions on which you have worked and in what capacity. Include any technical drawings or renderings you created and any experience you have with any specialized equipment with which you are experienced i.e. Q-Lab, sound systems, CAD programs, In-Design, Vector works, Google Sketch-up etc.

The 5-10 Minute Video Interview

This is your opportunity to talk about why theatre matters to you and to share your passion. Prepare your discussion in advance by writing out your thoughts. Rehearse your discussion, but don't try to script or memorize it. Allow yourself to discuss the topics spontaneously, but having thought carefully about your perspective. Try to talk to the lens as if you were talking to another person.

The following prompts are to assist you, but need not be the only approach you take, nor should you feel obligated to address all of them.

• Why do you want to participate in theatre in college?
• What role do you hope theatre will play in your life when you graduate?
• Theatre often is characterized as being like a family (for better or worse!) and many people particularly value that attribute, but what deeper meaning does theatre hold for you?
• Have you had a profound or transformative experience seeing or working on a production?
• How do you view the theatre’s power of transformation? What do you value about the theatre’s role in society and the lives of not only theatre makers but also of theatre viewers?