Productions

MainStage Production Manual: Mission Statement

The mission of the ASU School of Theatre and Film is to educate imaginative, knowledgeable, skilled, and responsible artists, teachers, scholars, audience members, and advocates for the theatre of the future.  We shape this education in our theatre laboratories and classrooms, where we work collaboratively to celebrate and confront our diverse theatrical heritage and to examine and practice the complex process of constructing meaning in the theatre event.  As artists and scholars, we explore new and diverse ideas and create new work and engage existing work in innovative ways to challenge, enrich, and transform the university and the larger communities in which we live.

To provide a comprehensive liberal arts theatre education to undergraduates in the following focus areas: performance, design and production, new work development, theatre for youth, film studies, and theatre and performance studies.

To educate the theatre scholars of the future in our Ph.D. program by engaging and developing the theories, histories, literatures, and practices of Theatre for Youth and Theatre and Performance of the Americas.

To train the creative artists of the future in our MFA program to work across and between theatrical disciplines and provide them with the skills needed to achieve their fullest potential as theatre artists.  MFA students create new work and original interpretations that are engaged with and responsive to diverse communities and exploit technology in the service of art.

To provide production opportunities that are integral to a student’s theatre education; complement the classroom and studio curricula; enrich the cultural life of the university, the community, the state and the region; and move the art of the theatre into the future.