<p>Okay, so I have been in theatre for the past 2 years and absolutely love it and want to do it in the future. I couldn't imagine a world without it. The only thing is that I don't know what in theatre I want to do. Over the past two years I have acted, did make up, and did sound and spot lighting. I have interests in many fields in theatre but want to start working on a particular part of theatre so I can get into a really good school. What should I do? And what colleges have great theatre programs? Also, I was thinking about having a double major with theatre as a back up. What might work with a theatre degree?</p>
<p>Go to the Theater Major section on the home page under Majors. Lots of schools listed, many require auditions, other specialize in off stage areas.</p>
<p>One thing you have to watch out for is that the theater department can be in various schools in a university - arts and sciences, music, arts and letters…Depending on your other major, you may have to meet the requirements for two colleges (education, engineering, etc).</p>
<p>You don’t tell us how close you are to college. If you’re a couple of years away, you still have time to sort this out. It may become clear later what you want to do. But if you’re a rising senior, maybe try to find a program that fits you, instead of the other way around. There are great theater programs that don’t demand that you know what you want to do before you start. Look for schools that offer a non-specialized major or allow you to combine specializations. </p>
<p>I’m a rising junior and thanks</p>
<p>There are also some aspects of theater that might be easier to combine than others. For example, I would assume that lighting and sound (as aspects of technical theater) might be easier to combine, and even add something like stage management- so you could build a nice group of marketable skills. Something like Lighting design and costume design seem less compatible to me- only in that they are VERY different skill sets.</p>
<p>CMU just changed their program so students can no longer combine design and management. This seems like a loss to me. They know their world so it’s probably what the professions want. But people are more complicated than a few categories suggest and mixing two programs that seem unrelated could lead to something completely new. Right now it’s commonplace at Carnegie to combine writing and computers to create computer games. But it wasn’t commonplace for the first person who did it. </p>