PAD - Performing Arts Department of Washington University in St. Louis

We are a dynamic department dedicated to teaching and learning about dance and theater through various forms of inquiry. We combine faculty actors, directors, designers, dancers, playwrights, and choreographers continuously engaged in professional theater and dance productions with faculty doing internationally recognized research in the study of theater, dance, and performance. Students who become involved with the PAD find a generous, challenging, and responsive home base at Washington University.