BFA Performing Arts: Acting & Content Creation - AOS/Cert Alumni

The Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Performing Arts: Acting and Content Creation program invites students to become masterful performers who are also skilled in creating original content for theatre, film, television and social media platforms. Students graduate audition-ready, empowered to fulfill their passion for performance and confident in their ability to transform original ideas into career opportunities within the arts. Throughout the program, students engage and collaborate with artists from multiple disciplines and backgrounds. This community-building approach creates an environment rich with diverse, global perspectives that inspire creativity and learning. In preparation for careers such as performers, content creators, writers, producers or directors, students develop an entrepreneurial mindset, advanced collaboration skills and an acute understanding of contemporary media.

Students completing the BFA Performing Arts: Acting & Content Creation program should be able to:

• Create convincing, compelling characters performed with vocal, physical and emotional specificity.

• Demonstrate broad-based development in the performing arts, including critical thinking skills, advanced-level performance skills and an individual sense of creativity.

• Work effectively in groups to create theatrical moments or events and solve production challenges.

• Demonstrate, across the various subfields, skills in personal discipline (organization, focus, energy, commitment) effectively applied to theatrical problem-solving and the creation of theatrical moments and events.

• Formulate constructive critical responses to theatrical products.

• Demonstrate comprehension and application of make-up techniques and materials.

• Apply business practices to the promotion and maintenance of career opportunities within the performing arts and performing arts–adjacent industries.

• Compare different theatrical forms, aesthetic values or cultural contexts to expand their skill sets and deepen their understanding of theatrical possibilities.

• Demonstrate the ability to cultivate an idea from concept to production-ready, finished product.

• Engage in a collaborative production process using standard entertainment industry practices as applied to preparation, communication and professionalism.

• Demonstrate an understanding of the concept of the construction of media, the factors and participants in its negotiated meaning, the various aesthetic forms of media, and its commercial, social and political implications.

• Demonstrate a strategic approach to content development, innovation and delivery in the performing arts.

Program-related jobs* include, but are not limited to: Actors - 27-2011 (Actor, Actress, Dramatic Reader, Voice-Over Artist), Producers and Directors - 27-2012 (Casting Director, Independent Film Maker, Stage Manager), Coach - 25-1121 (Drama, Dialect, Theatre). *The 6-digit codes following each job represent the Standard Occupational Classification determined by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (www.bls.gov).