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- Winter One Acts
  
  Winter One Acts will feature a playful opera and a modern drama, each about the misconceptions of identity.
- Fall Mainstage: A View from the Bridge
  
  Classified by critics as a modern tragedy, A View from the Bridge focuses on the domestic world of middle class individuals--both strengths and imperfections.
- Kelli Holsopple ‘99 – Decade of Servant Leadership
  
  Kelli Holsopple ‘99, of Brooklyn, N.Y., has used her passion for theater not for self-promotion, but rather to teach others to share their stories.
- Anna Deveare Smith
  
  Anna Deavere Smith visits Goshen College as part of the Umble Master Class.
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Tie all aspects of liberal arts together with a major in theater. Whether you’re a writer, designer, actor or technician, the Theater Department has a place for you.

Focus on theatrical design with art classes, performance skills with music classes, and language and literature with foreign language and English classes. Explore major historical, philosophical and artistic movements. Specialize in areas of theater design, acting, voice or directing.

Then, apply what you learned during the full-length mainstage shows and one act plays each semester. Manage the stage, design the lighting, or make your debut as an actor, and end up with a well-rounded background in theater studies.

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Major in Theater / Minor in Theater

The theater program at Goshen College has a strong liberal arts emphasis grounded in aesthetic communication and performance theory. Students explore historical, philosophical and artistic movements and the specialized areas of theater design, acting, literature, playwriting, voice and artistic movements. Courses in other academic areas such as art, music, communication, English and foreign languages can augment theater knowledge and skills.

Theater Arts Education concentration

A secondary teacher education program is available in theater arts for grades 5-12.

Course Descriptions
- Doug Caskey
  
  Department Chair
  Professor of Theater
- Randy Horst
  
  Associate Professor of Art
- Tamera Izlar
  
  Assistant Professor of Theater
- Pat Lehman
  
  Associate Professor of Communication
- Andrew Moeggenborg
  
  Umble Center Technical Director, Assistant Professor of Theater
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