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Upcoming Events
- April 25-28
Continuing performances of "Working" (a musical), April 25-27 at 8:00 p.m., April 28 at 2:00 p.m., in the Bruce Davis Theater, Montgomery Hall. Ticket prices are $4 or $6. For reservations, call the Theater Box Office at 240-895-4243 (ext. 4243) or email boxoffice@smcm.edu. - May 1
TFMS Night, a celebration of student work in theater/performance and film, 7:30 p.m., Bruce Davis Theater. Free and open to the public. - May 2
Final exams begin.
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Majors Handbook
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Faculty
- Liberal Arts Mission
- Production Policy
- Important
Announcements/Policies - Requirements for the
Theater Studies Major
[pdf] - Requirements for the
Film and Media
Studies Major [pdf] - Requirements for the Minors [pdf]
- Independent Study
- Junior Year Student-Faculty Conference
- Off-Campus Study
- Instructional Resources
- Filmmaking Resources
- Theater and Arts Season
- Talk-Back Night
- Audition Policy
- Performance Facilities
- Production and Shop Facilities
- Rules and Regulations for Use of Production and Shop Facilities
- Procedures for Requesting Use of Items
- Theater Production and Shop Positions and Their Responsibilities
- Paid Student Positions in TFMS
- The White Room
- TFMS Night
- Department Arts Alliance Awards
- The American College Theater Festival (ACTF) Awards
- Opportunities for Graduates
- Letters of Recommendation
- Core Play-Reading List for Theater Studies Majors [pdf]
- Core Film List for Film and Media Studies Majors [pdf]
- Check List: Theater Studies Major [pdf]
- Check List: Film and Media Studies Major [pdf]
- Guidelines and Application Procedures for St. Mary's Projects [pdf];
Application Form for St. Mary's Projects (pdf) - Recommendation Release Form [pdf]
- Course Requirement Waiver or Substitution Form [pdf]
TFMS Alumni
Where Are They Now?
Megan Rippey (class of 2008, B.A. women, gender, and sexuality studies, minor in theater studies) is currently in her final year of her M.F.A. in the acting program at the California Institute of the Arts (class of 2013).
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The American College Theater Festival (ACTF) Awards
During any year the department is a member of the ACTF, students are eligible to receive certificate of achievement awards or acting nominations from adjudicating members of the American College Theatre Festival for work on main stage productions entered in the Festival. Student designers and stage managers are honored by the adjudicators with certificate of achievement awards for excellence in technical theatre, and student actors are honored with acting nominations that permit performers to attend regional acting competitions with other ACTF award recipients in various acting categories.
In 2001, the department's production of Naga-Mandala: Play with a Cobra (picture above) was selected by the ACTF as an entry in its region II competition of plays held at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Chosen from among over 90 participating productions from Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware, New York, and the District of Columbia, Naga-Mandala was one of five shows selected to perform and compete in Pittsburgh. Naga-Mandala received acting nominations from ACTF adjudicators and certificate of achievement awards from the ACTF for professor Merideth Taylor's stage direction and co-sound design and for student work in scenic sculpture, mime, and ensemble performing.
Previous certificate of achievement awards from the ACTF include the lighting design of The Tooth of Crime, as well as acting nominations for "Whose Life Is It Anyway?," "The Tooth of Crime," Medea: A Noh Cycle Based on the Greek Myth, "The Colored Museum," "In My Time," "The Skin of Our Teeth" (1993 and 2003), and Tartuffe.
