{"id":6001,"date":"2022-06-21T11:21:56","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T15:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/?post_type=bu-program-page&p=6001"},"modified":"2023-08-17T16:07:12","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T20:07:12","slug":"mfa","status":"publish","type":"bu-program-page","link":"https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/academics\/degrees-programs\/scene-design\/mfa\/","title":{"rendered":"MFA Scene Design"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The MFA program in scene design at BU provides developing theatre professionals with the opportunity to cultivate their artistic identities while refining and enhancing their craft. Our intensive three-year program seeks to enhance artistic expression and communication skills through hands-on, mentored design experience within a wide range of production opportunities and classroom instruction. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Explore creative collaborations with directors, actors, technicians, and playwrights. Develop a thorough understanding of professional working methods and standards. Create and explore new forms of theatrical expression for the next generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Collaboration is in our name.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

What makes our MFA scene design program stand out? The care and work we put into cultivating collaborative and artistic work habits. We want you to be the best and most effective collaborative theatre artist you can be, while helping you create your own unique way of working and develop your artistic voice. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You’ll be proficient in all the skills required to create a design package for a professional production. You’ll effectively prepare and present your work to collaborators and producing companies. You’ll learn how to communicate wth craftspeople, artisans, and carpenters who’ll execute your work. And most importantly, you’ll know how to be a generous, knowledgeable, and dependable artist who makes theatre. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Program of Study<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Training includes a rigorous curriculum, design opportunities on a varied range of projects, encouragement in creating collaborative partnerships with peers within the graduate directing and design programs, and the discovery and formulation of their own working process. The average class size consists of three students. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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MFA scene design students create practical work in many genres from new and developing plays, the classical repertory, devised projects, musical theatre, and opera. Multiple annual designs and related assignments where application of skills and development of artistic expression can be observed and evaluated. It is the place where all the elements of theatre and study come together. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Students during their final year complete a thesis project, that explores specific and complex ideas of scene design, theatre, and artistic expression. Graduating students participate in The National Design Portfolio Review in their third year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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