The Carnegie Mellon School of Drama educates and trains the theatre artists who will become the collaborators, innovators, and leaders of our profession, committed to the enrichment of diverse communities.
Key Values of the School of Drama:
The Carnegie Mellon School of Drama is one of the world’s preeminent theatre arts conservatory programs. Graduates have made indelible contributions to the national and international arts communities as practicing artists, crafts persons, educators, theorists, entrepreneurs, administrators and arts innovators. Founded in 1914, the school’s educational mission is to combine theatrical precedent with current and best professional practice, innovation, new technologies and research across all dramatic arts disciplines.
The school celebrates diverse opinions, voices and ethnic backgrounds and promotes the creative cannons of other cultures. The school’s Visiting Artists Program exposes students to a broad cross-section of practicing artists, educators, researchers and theoreticians – with the aim of opening out the students’ creative imaginations and vocational arts horizons.
The school’s conservatory program presents practice opportunities for all students to work on classic, contemporary, and new work in both the dramatic and musical theatre arenas. The collegiate environment at Carnegie Mellon University allows students to study the performing arts in an environment where creative artists, computer scientists, philosophers, scientists, engineers, and business personnel work side by side.
The School of Drama is one of five schools that constitute the Carnegie Mellon University College of Fine Arts.