Live and Screened Performance
Live and Screened Performance
Bachelor of Arts: Live and Screened Performance (LSP)
The Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Live & Screened Performance provides students with broad-based skills and performance experiences that are necessary to secure professional work in the entertainment industry as individual and collaborative artists – locally, nationally and abroad.
Students in this program will hone the craft of creating performance for theatre, screen and new media.
Productions and workshop productions, mentored by our faculty, on campus and beyond, give students the opportunity to experience diverse performance spaces as well as creative roles from writing, dramaturgy, devising and script development to acting and directing to design and production.
Theatre training serves as an expansive basis for our program while additional course work specifically prepares graduates for careers in theatre, film, television, and related media.
BA LSP Degree Requirements-Performance and Directing Emphasis
BA LSP Degree Requirements-Design and Production Emphasis
2026/27 EVENTS BY LIVE & SCREENED PERFORMANCE STUDENTS:
Our 2026/27 theatre season features the cult phenomenon The Rocky Horror Show, original student-created works in the New Directions Festival, the acclaimed drama Stop Kiss and the Tony Award-winning adaptation of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. The season showcases students in TFTV’s Theatre Studies and Live and Screened Performance programs, where emerging artists develop skills for careers across stage, screen, and new media. Join us!
Past Featured Work:
Devised by ten TFTV BA students in collaboration with TFTV instructor Rick Wamer, Requiem for a Reef is a breathtaking work of physical theatre that takes aim at the repercussions of climate change on coral reefs and coastal communities. Wamer and the students were invited by Mannakin Theater and Dance of California to devise and perform Requiem for a Reef for the 2024 edition of the International Choreographer’s Festival in Minneapolis, and for an additional performance in San Francisco at Mannakin’s home theatre in October 2024.
Requiem for a Reef inspired the 25/26 workshop production The Climate Project, an original work of physical theatre that explores the urgent issue of climate change in the Sonoran Desert and beyond. Devised by TFTV students together with faculty member Rick Wamer, The Climate Project uses the “theatre of metamorphosis” approach – a movement-based form of physical theatre – to reflect on environmental transformation and human impact. The production featured a twenty-member ensemble whose performance was the result of a year’s worth of collaborative research and creative exploration.
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