Bachelor of Fine Arts in Musical Theatre
Application Deadline for Fall 2025 - December 1, 2024
Combining the focus and rigor of a conservatory with the academic breadth and depth of a major public research university, an SMTD Musical Theatre education is a transformative experience. The Musical Theatre curriculum is robust and interrogative. By investigating the musical theatre canon, students explore the many aspects of the art form that are integral to the training while innovating to ensure our students are adapting to an ever-changing creative field.
Musical Theatre alumni are accomplished professionals and passionately committed to the Department. Graduates routinely return to Ann Arbor to work with current students and a robust alumni family provides incomparable support and connections in New York City and beyond.
Curriculum
The Bachelor of Fine Arts in Musical Theatre requires a minimum of 124 credits: coursework is 75% within SMTD and 25% within the liberal arts.
SMTD coursework to include:
- Musical Theatre (first year introduction, performance, musical theatre history)
- Theatre (acting, theatre history, technical theatre)
- Dance (ballet, tap, musical theatre styles; jazz, hip hop, modern electives)
- Private voice lessons
- Music Theory
- Piano
Liberal Arts coursework to include:
- Freshman Writing
- Upper-level writing
- Foreign language or tested proficiency
- History
- Academic electives from across the U-M
- Race & Ethnicity
Silent Advisor
Degree requirements and term-by-term layout for current students.
Faculty
Raja Benz
Jessica Bogart
Tyler Brunsman
Vincent J. Cardinal
Ron De Jesús
Jason DeBord
Maurice Draughn
Tyler Driskill
Ann Evans Watson
André Garner
Caroline Helton
Lisa Mayer-Lang
Eiji Miura
Sydney Morton
Chelsea Packard
Sara Randazzo
Lynne Shankel
Catherine A. Walker
Cynthia Kortman Westphal
Performance Opportunities
Michigan offers extraordinary performance opportunities. Revues, Broadway musicals, operettas, new and experimental works — all of these are part of the daily life of a Musical Theatre student. View a list of all our Past Productions.
Hair
One Hit Wonder
Written by Hunter Foster
Andrew Lippa's The Wild Party
by Andrew Lippa
Passing Strange
by Stew
Senior Showcase
The annual Senior Showcase is an unforgettable revue featuring the wide range of talent of the Musical Theatre Department’s graduating seniors. An essential element in launching students into their professional careers, the Showcase previews in Ann Arbor before making its way to New York where it is performed for agents and casting directors.