IUP Department of Theatre, Dance, and Performance

IUP Department of Theatre, Dance, and Performance A creative community, cultivating artists destined to impact the future through creative endeavors in theatre, dance and musical theatre. Cook Honors College.

Created in 1977, IUP's Department of Theater and Dance began with three faculty members and twenty majors and has grown to a full-time faculty of ten with approximately one hundred majors. In 1993, dance was added into the curriculum with the addition of two new dance faculty members. The Department of Theater and Dance is dedicated to theater and dance as collaborative and highly disciplined fine

arts that demand a broad-based undergraduate education. There is a Bachelor of Arts degree, a theater minor, and a dance minor. In addition, Interdisciplinary Fine Arts degrees in Music-Theater and Dance Arts have been recently added to the department curriculums. Graduates have pursued graduate degrees in acting, playwriting, and all areas of design in addition to distinguishing themselves in professional theater, television, film, real estate, advertising, business, law, and education. Our department provides academic service to the departments of English, Communications Media, Elementary Education, and Consumer Services and to the Robert E. Introduction to Theater, Introduction to Dance and Introduction to Acting are an integral part of the university’s Liberal Studies curriculum. The department has presented more than 150 productions under the auspices of Theater-by-the-Grove, numerous student-directed and -designed ten-minute, one-act, and full-length plays presented under the auspices of the Acorn Project, touring productions to regional high schools, children’s theater productions toured to area elementary schools, and dance productions with the Dance Theater Company. The department also offers a summer theater program for young people called Footlight Players. Waller Hall, which was completely renovated in 1988–1989, is the primary home to the Department of Theater and Dance. In addition to the Mainstage Theater (a flexible "black box" performance space with a varying seating capacity up to 220), Waller houses a studio theater, classrooms, costume studio, scenery studio, dressing rooms, production storage, and offices. Productions are also performed in adjacent Fisher Auditorium, which has a seating capacity of 1,400. These performances are usually musicals or dance concerts produced in conjunction with the Music Department. In 2008, the newly-built Performing Arts Center combined Waller Hall and Fisher Auditorium, providing further augmentation to programs and performances in both buildings. Dance classes and yearly performances are usually held in the dance studio in Zink Hall, which has an approximate seating capacity of 270. In Spring 1995, the Department of Theater and Dance was granted membership with the National Association of Schools of Theatre. The department joins a select group of schools nationally with fully accredited programs in theater.

You BELONG. Come work and play with us in the Spring semester.
11/15/2022

You BELONG. Come work and play with us in the Spring semester.

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09/02/2022

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03/26/2021

Tickets to the Legacy Concert of Percussion and Dance are available here. You can see it stream live Saturday night at 7pm.

A bittersweet moment of history. Yay Holly Boda-Sutton.
03/26/2021

A bittersweet moment of history. Yay Holly Boda-Sutton.

Some 27 years ago, Holly Boda-Sutton was given a task at her position at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She had been hired at the university around the time dance was

Hey this is going to be something simply divine!
03/01/2021

Hey this is going to be something simply divine!

02/04/2021

Alum Helena Sadvary is performing in this Amazon Prime video. Check it out.

She’s a rock star! And IUP alum.
01/28/2021

She’s a rock star! And IUP alum.

Loyalsock Township, Pa. – Although actress Trisha Rae Stahl left the Williamsport area 23 years ago, she has never forgotten about her hometown.

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401 South 11th Street, 104 Waller Hall
Indiana, PA
15705

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Monday 8am - 12pm
Tuesday 8am - 12pm
Wednesday 8am - 12pm
Thursday 8am - 12pm
Friday 8am - 12pm

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(724) 357-2965

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