Marymount Manhattan College

Bachelor of Acting

The BA in Acting major at MMC not only offers you extensive training in acting and performance but also encourages you to become well-rounded and expressive artists and human beings with a strong liberal arts background. MMC Theatre Arts faculty represent a wide variety of professional experiences and connections, and students are able to foster close personal relationships with the faculty through our small class sizes.

Finally, you develop initiative, ownership, agency, and responsibility throughout your training, so that you are prepared to manage your own professional careers beyond college.Upon completion of the BA in Acting major, be able to: Demonstrate a repeatable and specific process for the performance of complex character actions and behaviors, across multiple theatrical styles; Apply extensive research and rehearsal processes, script analysis, and character development to the performance of scenes and monologues written for both stage and screens; Invest personally in scenes and monologues from material with varied and diverse given circumstances, contexts, and physical, language, and vocal requirements; Demonstrate initiative, discipline, agency, and personal expressivity, ownership, and responsibility.

All BA in Acting performance courses are kept small in order to foster personal relationships and connections between the faculty and students. As a result, our students feel supported and seen by the faculty throughout all four years of their training. Marymount Manhattan commitment to individual attention remains a unique and important advantage during college and post-graduation.