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BFA in Musical Theater
major and Dance minor
Brett Thiele ’13 was cast
in Broadway’s Spiderman:
Turn Off the Dark in an
ensemble role.
Pace Performing Arts offers BFA and BA programs that balance strong academics with conservatory-style training and prepare our
graduates to enter the workplace as knowledgeable, disciplined artists devoted to the integrity, pursuit, and preservation of their
craft. Dedicated to providing the finest professional training, we offer programs in Acting, Musical Theater, Commercial Dance,
Directing, and Production & Design. With more than 40 productions a year, rigorous studio teaching by working professionals and
access to the professional world, Pace Performing Arts is a center of excellence in undergraduate education. In 2013, Pace Performing Arts
moved into its new home, a state-of-the-art facility in Lower Manhattan, just two blocks from the campus center.
taken through a rigorous four-year
curriculum covering all areas of musical
theater including acting, scene work,
musical theater techniques and repertoire
alongside four years of dance training in
ballet, jazz, tap theater dance, and more.
Students also take four years of private
voice lessons.
CURRICULUM
The Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Acting
is a competitive and comprehensive preprofessional program consisting of four
years of intensive studio acting training
accompanied by requirements in movement,
vocal production and speech, theater
history, stage combat, acting for film and
TV, business of acting and more.
The Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Musical
Theater is an elite, pre-professional
intensive training program. Students are
The Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in
Commercial Dance is the first of its kind
in New York City, designed to prepare
students for careers in the entertainment
industry — Broadway, television, or film.
Students take four years of courses in ballet,
modern, jazz, theater dance, contemporary,
hip hop, tap, aerials, acting, and body
awareness. Commercial Dance majors are
also required to take Acting and Voice Class.
The Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Directing
The BA in Directing program prepares
students to work as stage directors with
a degree that provides a strong foundation
in narrative storytelling and dramatic
action. The training process is projectoriented, professionally-mentored, and
encourages creative new talents to develop
their own vision for the theater of tomorrow
by working closely with actors, designers,
playwrights, and technicians.
The Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Production
& Design for Stage & Screen provides preprofessional training in the techniques and
crafts that support theater, dance, film,
and television production. Fields of
specialization include scenery, costumes,
stage management, lighting, sound, and
media. Our faculty is comprised of working
artists who work closely with students
both in and outside the classroom to
develop engaged and technologically
sophisticated designers and craftspeople.
With over 40 productions every year in
multiple on and off campus venues, students
have many opportunities for hands-on
participation in realized production.
1,500
EVERY YEAR, MORE THAN
AUDITION FOR PERFORMING
ARTS AT PACE
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REAL WORLD EXPERIENCE
“Your career begins the day
you enter the program, not the
day you graduate.”
This philosophy embodies the mission of
Pace Performing Arts. Recent selected
credits of our students and graduates
include:
BROADWAY
•Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark
•The Book of Mormon
•Bring It On
•Newsies
•Hair
NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL TOURS
FACILITIES
• In The Heights
• Mamma Mia!
• American Idiot
• Bring It On
• Catch Me If You Can
• Beauty and the Beast
The new state-of-the-art home for
Pace Performing Arts opened in 2013
at 140 William Street, a seven-story,
47,000-square-foot building. The building
includes acting, movement and dance
studios as well as a soundstage and
screening room. Additionally, it houses
costume and scene shops, a digital design
lab, and multiple performance spaces.
Pace students also perform in the Michael
Schimmel Center for the Arts, Schaberle
Studio Theater, Off-Broadway, Layton
Dance Studio and Mainframe Studio.
• West Side Story
• Hairspray
• Shrek The Musical
• West Side Story
FILM
• Generation Um… (with Keanu
Reeves)
• The Green (with Cheyenne Jackson,
Illeana Douglas, Julia Ormond)
• Interior. Leather Bar (Sundance)
• Milkshake (Sundance)
• God’s Favor (Cannes)
PERFORMANCE OPPORTUNITIES
TELEVISION
Pace Performing Arts offers one of the
nation’s busiest and diverse production
calendars with more than 40 performance
opportunities per academic year. Pace
produces four full-length musicals and
four full-length plays per year. The program
also supports the New Works Initiative,
Pace Directors’ Festival, Pace New Musicals,
dance concerts, and two student-run
production companies.
• Law and Order: SVU
• Days of Our Lives
• Hawaii Five-O
• Combat Hospital
• Parks and Recreation
• A Gifted Man
ON AND OFF THE STAGE
“There is never a moment when we don’t
have something to do, something to work
on in or out of school. You never lose the
chance to be the best actor, professional, and
person that you can be. ”
• 10 Things I Hate
About You (ABC)
• The Forgotten
• GCB
• True Blood
• CSI: Miami
DANCE
• Radio City Rockettes (National Tour)
• Fashion Week NYC (Bryant Park Hotel)
• WeHo (Artist Collaboration)
• A Chorus Line (Mainestate Music
Theater)
• Cats (Bucks County Playhouse)
Plus many regional, Off-Broadway, and
Off-Off Broadway venues.
-Patrick Pribyl, BFA Acting
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