Oberlin College Theater

The performing arts at Oberlin College represent collaboration at its best. Students engage in all aspects of performance, both artistic and technical. Opportunities abound to interact and collaborate with disciplines such as cinema studies, studio art, creative writing, and music. Our faculty, who are accomplished professional artists in their own right, offer a range of courses that nurture and develop the interests and abilities of students, providing a sound grounding in the theory and practice of theater.

Our Theater curriculum offers a range of courses in acting, directing, history, theory, technical production, design and dramatic literature.The theater major incorporates study in all these areas with an individualized concentration, allowing each student to study a chosen discipline in depth. The Acting and Directing course sequences are especially intensive, and prepare professionally oriented students for graduate school.