Playwriting

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To inquire about this program:
Theatre Admission Office | 773-325-7999

The Theatre School's Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) degree in Playwriting focuses on helping students explore and identify their voice and unique process of working as a writer in a variety of circumstances. The four-year curriculum provides students with the primary tools of dramatic writing and the space and opportunity to use them through a variety of classroom and workshop production experiences.

Students learn from a distinguished and award-winning faculty of professional playwrights, dramaturgs, directors and arts writers both in the classroom and through individual guidance and advising. Students receive formal and informal feedback from faculty through continual readings and workshops of their work.