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BFA in Theatre with a concentration in PRODUCTION & DESIGN
This pre-professional degree that combines a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of theatre with concentrations in costume, scenic, lighting or sound design; technical production; and stage management. This concentration gives you the artistic, intellectual and technical groundwork necessary for a professional life in the theatre and for further specialization through graduate studies. The 129-credit curriculum includes pre-professional training, study of theatre history and literature, and a wide range of liberal arts courses.
This is a process-based, hands-on degree. With strong personal mentoring in your area of specialization, you will make practical application of your training through substantial participation in productions of the Post Theatre Company.
Students gain hands-on experience at professional facilities on campus, including the Little Theatre and the Costume and Scene Shops.
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WHAT MAKES US UNIQUE?
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Work with design and production professionals from your first day on campus
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A small program focused on your individual development and success
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Opportunities to participate in stage productions early in your study
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Internships and work opportunities both on and off campus
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Work directly with designers and directors from New York City as fully participating members of a production team
The program is coordinated with the Post Theatre Company, where students gain hands-on participation in all aspects of a working theatre company. Students gain a wider perspective through internships on and off campus, and travel to festivals in the United States and abroad. Our beautiful suburban campus is only 50 minutes away from the theatre capital of the world – New York City. There are many opportunities to collaborate with professional playwrights, directors and producers.
OUR FACULTY/STAFF
JENNIFER RICE
Jennifer Rice (Costume Designer, Costume Shop Supervisor, Adjunct Professor) has been with Long Island University’s Theatre, Dance, and Arts Management program since 1998, working with students and guest artists on well over 100 productions for the Post Theatre Company and Post Concert Dance Company. As an adjunct professor, Jen teaches design and costume tech courses, and is a mentor to the department’s Production and Design majors concentrating in costume studies. She has designed costumes for several dance pieces, plays and musicals for the PTC and PCDC; favorites include Metamorphoses, Rent, The Wild Party, Iphigenia and Other Daughters, and Twelfth Night. Jen has also worked for the Texas Shakespeare Festival in Kilgore, TX, the Colorado Shakespeare Festival in Boulder, CO and The Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, DC.
DAVID APICHELL
David has been kicking around the business for many years. He serves as Production Manager at The New London Barn Playhouse. Past Stage Management credits include 11 years on tour with the Radio City Christmas Spectacular, Forbidden Broadway: Alive and Kicking!, The Music Man: In Concert (Two River Theater/NJPAC), three years as PSM for the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Intringulis and American Jornalero (INTAR). Regional productions include Disney’s Mary Poppins (Gateway/Ogunquit), Elf: the Musical (Arkansas Rep), Les Miserables, Chicago, Fiddler on the Roof (Reagle Music Theatre), Hairspray, To Kill a Mockingbird, and The Sound of Music (Mill Mountain Theatre). David has stage managed many events for the New York Times TimesTalks, works annually as the Production Manager for NYU’s UltraViolet Live!, and teaches Theatre, Stage, and Arts Management at LIU Post, where he also directs. MFA: LIU Post. BFA: Penn State.
THOMAS PASCARELLA
Thomas Pascarella is an LIU and PTC alum, adjunct professor of theatre and Director of Facility and Production Services for LIU Tilles Center. Tom has held various consulting and production jobs over his career, including having his own Production Company that produced events such as the Grand Gourmet at Grand Central Station.
After travelling with a live Better Homes and Gardens cooking tour, Tom soon after started full time at Tilles Center. Outside of Tilles Center, Tom has found the time to be the Production Manager for “The (49th, 50th, and 51st) Drama Desk Awards”, consulted on Commencement ceremonies and venue projects for Princeton University, and Event Managed Commencement ceremonies for Adelphi University. Tom was raised in Westbury and lives in North Babylon with his wife and two-year-old daughter.
ANTHONY PAUL-CAVARETTA
Costume Designer. Design Credits Include: Little Women: The Broadway Musical (Gallery Players), Stupid F##king Bird (Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute), Ludwig And Bertie (Theater For The New City), Tour: Julius Caesar (Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival), Murder For Two (Hope Summer Repertory Theatre), An Inspector Calls *Winner Of The 2019 New Hampshire Theatre Award For Best Costume Design In A Professional Production, Steel Magnolias (Peterborough Players); Tartuffe, Cyrano, The Tempest (Titan Theatre Company); Hydrogen Jukebox (Chautauqua Opera); Mesquite, NV, Composure (Workshop Theater); Discover Opera: Mary Popera, Hansel & Gretel, Rapunzel, & The Magic Flute (Manhattan School Of Music), Lake, The Iceman Cometh (Hudson Guild Theatre Company); Brundibar (Sarasota Youth Opera); Carmen, Rigoletto (Long Island Opera); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Life of Galileo, Electricidad, Hamlet (Lehman College); Trojan Barbie, As You Like It, Othello, Big Love (Post Theatre Company). Film Design Credits Camp Wedding (2019), Penned (Short 2019), The Tell-Tale Heart: A Musicabre (Short 2019)*Winner of the 2019 Cinema World Fest for Best Costumes, and Winner of the 2019 South Film and Arts Academy Festival for Best Costume Design in a Feature Film, C.I.T. (Short 2016); M.F.A. Theatre (Purdue University)
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MIA ISABELLA AGGUIRE
All PTC production photographs featured on these pages were taken by Mia Isabella Photography. Mia is an alum of the program and an accomplished performer and photographer based in NYC. Mia works closely as a photographer with dirty sugar, Shuttersound Pictures, and is a featured New York City Headshot Photographer at the Daily Actor. Available for bookings now-click the link to contact.
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