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Graduate Students: MFA acting students comprise a significant
part of the resident acting company for the Connecticut Repertory
Theatre, the performance wing of the Department of Dramatic
Arts. Producing in three unique theatres, the CRT performs a
wide range of plays from the classical to the modern, as well
as new plays developed during the theatres Summer Series. Plays
are often directed by professionals, many of whom have worked
extensively in major regional repertory theatres as well as
Off- and On-Broadway. CRT also gives student actors the opportunity
to perform alongside experienced, working professional actors
while earning membership points in Actors Equity, the American
professional actors union. Although it is not guarantees, graduate-student
actors invariably perform in at least one and sometimes two
Mainstage CRT productions during each of their six semesters.
As a result of this casting pattern, most of our MFA acting
students are eligible to joint Equity upon their graduation.
The department may also provide third-year MFA actors with opportunities
to understudy and/or perform in outside productions at such
prestigious regional repertory theatres as the Long Wharf in
New Haven.
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