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  1. Congratulations!! One of my cohort from my MA is in that program. You've got this!!!
  2. I'm applying to a Canadian school this year and the unique things by far are- proving English proficiency (was able to get a letter from my alma mater stating that my language of instruction was English) and the GPA scale (Canada goes up to a 4.33?). It's worth mentioning that while a majority of writers rooms for English TV and film are in Hollywood, the next best city to be in is London. Just make sure if you decide to go you are up to date on your student visa application.
  3. Heck yea! I applied for Performance Studies since Dr Jackson is in that department as well. How'd your application go?
  4. Anyone applying for rhet/comp? I'm applying to a couple PhDs in Theater/ English with rhetoric faculty.
  5. x_x man that might be it for me I've had absolutely zero contact
  6. Wild Iowa interview on results! Start checking your emails.
  7. Haven't heard from Brooklyn or Hunter yet! Didn't apply to Columbia so I don't think I'll be hearing from them 😅
  8. Whomst posted the Brown interview reveal yourself!!!
  9. Congratulations!! Have not heard from Iowa but early March is when interviews go out (per results page)
  10. Best of luck! I hope you hear back from CMU. I saw a couple folks on twitter say they received rejections, if that helps at all.
  11. Congratulations on the world premiere!!! That's so exciting. Are you going to travel to see it? I also saw that my Brooklyn app said incomplete, so I reached out to the grad school to ask what was up and they said that it is pending official transcripts but those don't need to be sent until we receive an offer of admission.
  12. Welcome! would recommend going to https://www.thegradcafe.com/survey/ and searching for playwriting to see results. Be sure you add your own in when they come (including interview requests!!)
  13. I'm glad I found out this way and not after paying an application fee ?
  14. I would recommend changing it up especially if you've done anything this past year; it gives you a chance to show faculty what you've been up to and your motivations for pursuing the program may have changed (even if it's ever so slightly).
  15. I'm planning on applying!
  16. If your ultimate goal is to teach theater at a university level, I highly recommend looking up open faculty positions and seeing their requirements. Higheredjobs is a good resource as is the academic jobs wikia. Narrowing down exactly what you want to teach is going to be helpful as well. What kind of acting do you want to teach? Do you want to teach voice classes? If so, do you prefer Linklater or Fitzmaurice voicework? What aspect of theater history do you want to teach/ do research on? Those are questions you don't need to answer right now, but ones that you need to consider. URTA is a good resource when it comes to researching MFA programs in both Directing and Acting, and The American Society for Theater Research has a good list for PhD programs in theater. Since you are apprenticing for an artistic department, you may want to take a gander at theater admin and dramaturgy programs as well to see if they interest you. My biggest piece of advice is to find a program that has a full tuition waiver and a living stipend. Talk to recent alumni and current students if that information isn't readily available on the university website.
  17. -Summer programs/ internships I would recommend would be any admin focused internship at a local theater near you. Literary and/ or Education internships in particular, however generally I would recommend finding an internship where you can learn something like Tessitura since it's a fairly ubiquitous ticketing software across theater and music venues. A lot of the people I met when I did my summer fellowship were also able to do their art on the side, and a fair number of them were playwrights. You should also be on the lookout for playwright festivals; I interned for Pacific Playwrights Festival and through that I was able to learn how professional theater works, network with other artists, and I got to meet some published playwrights! It was only a week-long commitment, too, so I was able to keep my support job.
  18. Bumping, but also contributing. I've been on the fence for applying for programs this year. I haven't taken the GRE yet as finances get in the way. I have also perused the PhD programs in my general area (Southern California) and cannot for the life of me find faculty directly in the Theater department who I share research interests with. One of my buddies told me that, while he was doing his PhD in Theater, he did work with faculty in other departments and that this is fairly normal thing for our field. I know the recommended practice is to choose 2-3 faculty who share your general research interests, and I can't really justify applying to programs that I have looked at where I only share interests with just one of them. That's my biggest anxiety about the process right now. I will be applying for one PhD program this year, as I did find their program interesting in that they have a nice mix of research and practice, and I did find that 2-3 faculty who I'd love to research/practice under. I am not putting all of my eggs in one basket; I'm fairly confident that my professional experience can net me a job after finishing this MA in December. Non-application stuff: Is anyone presenting at PAMLA in San Diego this year? Hope everyone is doing well!
  19. I'll be finishing my MA in December, and until then I have the rest of this semester (teaching a class and taking a class) and a summer fellowship in my field! I'm also playing on a baseball team in a Sunday league, which has been a ton of fun. I'm still shopping around for Theater PhD and MFA programs, so whatever time I have left will be dedicated to that.
  20. Thank you for this. I was looking at applying this upcoming year to USC because of that post a couple of years ago. I'd consider them if it was 75% year one then full remission, but $42K seems egregious. If you're moving to LA, be on the lookout for playwriting classes through local theaters. Ones on my radar: Antaeus in Glendale has a playwriting course, though you have to audition for it since it's through their academy. Echo Theater Company in Atwater has classes as well, and one of their instructors got their MFA in Dramatic Writing at USC. Boston Court in Pasadena also has the occasional playwriting class. Also if you are interested in sketch writing or storytelling a lot of the improv schools have classes that vary in affordability. I've heard very good things about The Pack's sketch program, and I went to Upright Citizens Brigade for storytelling, and they also give you a certificate for finishing their core sketch and improv programs.
  21. What up. I'm also doing my MA in English, but I auditioned for MFA programs a year before getting into my current program. The amount of experience really depends on the university. I found it helpful to look at current grad students to see if they have a website/ resume up, and go from there. From people that I knew and met through this weird process, experience varies widely from fresh out of undergrad to actors who are equity. Applicants can have BFAs. They can also have business degrees. MFAs aren't strict in the way that our English programs might be; I had to take prerequisites to become an unconditional student where you don't often see that in MFA programs if they didn't major in theater in undergrad. Age depends on the program as well. I know that NIU had a class that ranged from age 24 to some people in their 40s when I auditioned there in 2016. My UG was not that way at all; most were in their 20s or early 30s if they were in the acting program. Biggest piece of advice I can give comes from my theater professors from my UG in that you can relatively craft your own graduate program, sans terminal degree, right now. One of the biggest draws of an MFA is that you can teach at a college level; something we can already do with an MA*. You already have the means to find classes that give you similar training to that of a grad program, but you can sort of curate it how you'd like. I really wanted to go to a grad program which had a nice sequence in clowning and mask work. I didn't get in, but I was able to find classes in clowning and mime that have satiated that need. I'm not saying you shouldn't consider an MFA, just that you do have options that are available to you right now so you don't have to wait. *I know that a terminal degree will give you more opportunities to apply to faculty positions at 4 years as opposed to the lecturer/ adjunct positions we could apply for with a non-terminal MA.
  22. I will more than likely be an applicant next year. Finishing up my MA in English at the moment. I'm specifically looking into theatre programs rather than performance studies. I generally know where I am going to apply, but I also want to reach out and ask if anyone knows professors who do research in the postdramatic, particularly in the states. Happy application season!
  23. If you're going down the dramatic literature path, be sure to contact professors who do research in dramatic lit and check the curriculum of the program. English is very well rounded in that classes can cover plays, memoirs, poetry, etc but that can also be its hinderance. Also, English people are fucking weird compared to theater people.
  24. UMass Amherst has a Phd in Communication with a focus in performance studies and rhetoric. Might be worth looking into!
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