Program in Theatre offers students a solid grounding in the theory, history, and criticism of theatre studies, while encouraging interdisciplinary thinking. The program takes advantage of the rich resources of New York City, with its professional theatre specialists, institutions, and myriad productions, as well as its library and museum facilities and its archives and private collections. The Film Studies Certificate Program is allied with the program. The Program also features interdisciplinary options with distinguished Graduate Center Faculty in other fields and through a consortial arrangement with New York University and Columbia University. The Program has strong affiliations with the Martin E. Segal Center's Journal of American Drama and Theatre and European Stages. The program's faculty, consisting of distinguished scholars as well as critics of the professional theatre, is very much concerned with the professional opportunities and careers available to its students. Students are encouraged to take full advantage of the resources of The Graduate Center as well as to explore avenues of interdisciplinary cooperation. Theatre program faculty are either Central Appointments, who teach only at The Graduate Center, or Constituent College Appointments, who also teach at one of the CUNY colleges. Central Appointments have offices at The Graduate Center and function as the core faculty of the Program, serving as mentors to incoming students. Current Central Appointments are Marvin Carlson, Peter Eckersall, Jean Graham-Jones, Frank Hentschker, Erika Lin, and David Savran.
