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Musical Theatre BFA

Building Your Skills

As a BFA Musical Theatre student at UCM, you’ll have performance opportunities from 35-40 productions each year. The Mainstage Season will open with a large cast musical every year and close the season with an original dance concert. Every other year, a smaller second musical will be produced in the spring. The 442-seat, state-of-the-art James L. Highlander Theater will offer you musical and acting opportunities on a traditional proscenium stage. Our flexible, 100-seat Nickerson Black Box Theater will provide you with more intimate acting and singing opportunities similar to television and film. Each summer you’ll have paid opportunities with Central Missouri Repertory to company manage, direct, design or act in our touring children’s production.  UCM Theatre and Dance invites you to join a diverse body of students, professional faculty, and participate in a rigorous curriculum that will prepare you for graduate programs or a professional career

Ashley Miller-Scully

Professor of Dance

Ashley Miller-Scully serves as the BFA Musical Theatre program coordinator and advisor of the UCM Dance Club. Since joining the UCM Department of Theatre and Dance in 2009, she has been instrumental in building the UCM dance program, developing the B.F.A. Musical Theatre degree, and creating a dance minor at UCM. Mrs. Miller-Scully choreographs all departmental mainstage musicals and serves as the artistic director of the Spring Dance Concert each year. She has choreographed regionally for Crane River Theater (Seussical, Tarzan, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat) and has produced work locally and abroad at the Kansas City Fringe Festival and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe alongside UCM faculty and students.

 

BFA Auditions 2022 - Save the Date - Monday, February 21st, 2022 9am-5pm. For more information or to register for your audition please contact: almiller@ucmo.edu or refer to ucmo.edu/theatre

At UCM, we value engaging learning experiences that include student involvement and service-learning projects. Involvement opportunities include:

Professional Organizations and Student Groups

● Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival

● American College Dance Association

● Speech and Theatre Association of Missouri

● USITT

● Southeast Theatre Conference

● U/RTA Auditions and Portfolio Reviews

●Theta Alpha Phi 

● UCM Dance Club 

● Film Makers And Actors' Coalition

Theatre S.H.I.P.

The Theatre Special Housing Interest Program area in Nickerson Hall is designed for students minoring in or majoring in theatre. This SHIP provides close proximity to the department’s Black Box Theatre, a lounge to rehearse lines and blocking, a fully equipped dance studio and access to dining facilities.

Performance Opportunities

● KCACTF Irene Ryan Scholarship Auditions

● KCACTF Professional Auditions

● KCACTF MTI Auditions

● Midwest Theatre Auditions

● UCM Main Stage Production Program

● Studio Theatre One-Act Series

● Richard Herman Black Box Theatre Program

● Film Makers And Actors' Coalition

● Highlander and Kansas City Senior Showcase

The Gap Project--Kip Niven and Brent Challacombe, Meridith Harmon Sauer Endowed Guest Artist Series in Theatre

 

 

 

 

Contact

Ashley Miller-Scully
Chair, Theatre & Dance
Martin 113B
Tel: (660) 543-8798

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