Design & Technical Production

• Student learn costume rendering and figure drawing.
• Besides design courses, students learn draping, pattern drafting, and flat patterning skills.
• Students can expect practical and realized stage design experience.
• We offer costume craft courses including mask making, armor making, fabric dyeing, and wig design.
• Our costume shop is modeled after a professional working shop with high standards and expectations.

Through coursework, production work in our professional costume shop and opportunities on our Arizona Repertory Theatre productions you will learn:

• Patternmaking by drafting and draping techniques for contemporary and period garments
• Fundamental to advanced garment construction techniques
• Women’s historical garment construction techniques, including corsets and 18th/19th century women’s wear
• Men’s wear construction techniques, including modern and historical tailoring
• Costume craft skills, including millinery/hatmaking, fabric dyeing, mask making, armor, and wig styling
• Costume shop organization and wardrobe crew management skills following professional regional theatre practices

• Train hands-on in lighting design and production practices on up to 6 Arizona Repertory Theatre, 4 Studio Series and numerous auxiliary events
• Work as a stage electrician, programmer, assistant master electrician, master electrician, assistant lighting designer and lighting designer
• Study all areas of theatre design and production, textual analysis and history
• Take additional course work in advanced lighting design, automated lighting programming and stage electrics
• Cultivate collaboration, communication and leadership skills in the context of the lighting design team as well as the production creative team
• Receive strong mentorship and career advisement from professionally working faculty

• Coursework in the areas of stage management, design, and production technology
• Opportunity to work as a Stage Manager, Assistant Stage Manager, or Production Assistant on 2 to 3 productions per year including plays, musicals, and operas
• Discussions with guest speakers currently working in the entertainment industry
• Networking and shadowing opportunities with professional stage managers
• Internship opportunities with local and national arts organizations

• Create sound designs that reinforce, illuminate, and punctuate, the story of a play.
• Design, install, and program multi-channel sound systems to create complex aural environments.
• Record, mix, and edit a vast stylistic array of sounds to use in your designs.
• Learn and practice advanced techniques of live sound mixing in a professionally modeled, fast paced setting.
• Benefit from our extensive network of contacts working professionally in the entertainment industry.
• Take advantage of opportunities across the College of Fine Arts to broaden your skills.

• Production opportunities in two main stage theatres
• Six main stage productions each year
• Learn hand and computer-aided drafting
• Learn model making, drawing, and digital rendering
• Learn scene painting and props fabrication

Between your time in our shop, your classes, and our two main stage spaces you will learn:

• AutoCAD, Vectorworks, and hand drafting
• Basic and advanced wood working
• Welding and metal work
• Project management and problem solving
• Shop management and work flow
• Rigging fundamentals
• Show control and stage automation