The Bachelor of Arts in Playwriting is jointly offered by the Fiction Writing and Theater departments. This interdisciplinary major combines the quality of writing practice found in the Fiction Writing Department with the hands-on, collaborative approach to theater practiced in the Theater Department. Students are immersed in the business of writing for theater with an emphasis on developing an individual voice that must be integrated into the group effort required of theater production. Students take classes in writing practice, theater performance, and dramatic theory as the core of the major. In addition, students choose electives that focus learning in a specific application of playwriting. Electives are selected in consultation with an advisor. Opportunities for staged readings and workshop productions provide a public forum for student writing.

Upon graduation, students will have developed a body of work that has been tested in the laboratory of live theater. This work can be submitted confidently for admission to graduate school or for seeking productions in professional theaters.

Students must maintain standards of performance.