Department of Theater and Dance

Welcome to the Department of Theater and Dance at IUP!

• We are committed to providing challenging undergraduate programs and a wide variety of opportunities every semester.
• In a creative and nurturing environment, students actively learn, both in the classroom and in productions.
• We offer over fifty theater and dance courses ranging from beginning to advanced levels in acting, dance, directing, design, and technical theater.
• Theater-by-the-Grove and the IUP Dance Theater Company support numerous creative opportunities in six fully realized Mainstage productions each year, including one musical.
• Additional creative opportunities are provided in studio, touring and workshop productions.
• We have been sucessfully engaged in the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival with yearly regional and national recognition of our students’ production work.
• We are fully accredited by the National Association of Schools of Theatre, the only accrediting body for theater in higher education recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.