Austin Peay State University

The Theatre and Dance Department is a training program that focuses on the professional skills expected on any stage, set, studio, audition or in any dance company. We offer a BFA with concentrations in in Acting, Dance, Design, Musical Theatre, and Stage Management as well as a BA with concentrations in in Theatre, and Dance.

APSU’s Theatre and Dance Department fosters artists, scholars and professionals who positively impact our world. We provide a creative environment in which we educate and prepare students for the professional worlds of Theatre and Dance.

• Students progress through a rigorous training program that incorporates both practice and scholarship.
• We support student’s creative, performance, and scholarly aptitudes through exposure to diverse practical and philosophical approaches to dance and theatre studies.
• We advance critical thought processes by stressing the theoretical, pedagogical, and historical aspects of theatre and dance studies.
• We nurture and inspire excellence in student achievement.
• We cultivate equitable and expansive socially conscious, engaged industry professionals who strive to represent the changes the industry requires.