Prospective Students
Why study Film and Performing Arts at UAF?
Some Theatre & Film Department Highlights:
- Small class sizes for individualized attention.
- Concentrations in Film Production OR Theatre.
- Approximately 36 Film Production concentration students and 36 Theatre concentration students.
- Faculty with strong connections to the professional theatre and film industries.
- Excellent facilities including a 468 seat theatre and well-equipped costume and scene shops.
- Student accessible HD film equipment, editing labs and production studio space.
- Students can participate in productions their first semester.
- Freshmen are often cast in our shows and films.
- Design students may have the opportunity to design main-stage productions.
- Internships on professional film sets.
- Study abroad opportunities.
- Student Drama Association (SDA) is a student club that produces its own shows.
- The Film Club shoots films and produces the Student Film Festival.
- Sample Classes include: Acting, Directing, Stagecraft, Design (Scenic, Lighting, Costume, Sound), Makeup for Theatre, Filmmaking, Playwriting/ Screenwriting.
- UAF is competitively priced, and scholarships (including talent scholarships) are available.
Please contact us with any questions!
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