Olney Theatre Center - About

Boston University
School of Theatre Arts

On July 1, 2002, Olney Theatre Center artistic director was named director of the School of Theatre Arts at Boston University. With the beginning of his tenure there, the university has enthusiastically supported a deep academic/professional affiliation between Boston University and Olney Theatre Center.

During the current academic year, ideas and programs are being generated that will include, but will not be limited to, investigating a graduate acting program to be designed between the two institutions, student internships in acting, design and production as an integrated part of the academic tracks of those programs within the university, opportunity for recent graduates to launch their professional careers from the Olney Theatre Center, development of new plays for the theater though a unique three-fold affiliation between the School of Theatre Arts, the Boston Playwrights Theatre and Olney Theatre Center.

We, at Olney, are thrilled with the potential of this exciting new partnership. Keep an eye on our Web site to find how the programs are inaugurated in the coming months.

www.bu.edu/cfa/theatre

University of Maryland, College Park
Graduate Design Program

With a 10-year history of collaboration between our institutions, Olney Theatre Center continues its traditions of a strong relationship with the design programs at the University of Maryland, College Park. Led by the relationship between OTC Artistic Director Jim Petosa and UMCP Department of Theatre Chair Daniel Wagner, who also serves as Olney's resident lighting designer, the affiliation spans the M.F.A. design programs in scenic design, costume design and lighting design. Select students in these programs acquire professional experience while studying in their academic programs. Many receive credit for their degrees by fulfilling professional tasks at Olney. The work of these students is mentored by their university professors and by the theater's professional artists and staff.

www.inform.umd.edu/THET/Graduate

Middlebury College
Department of Theatre

Each year since 1995, Olney Theatre Center has continued its annual relationship with the Middlebury College Department of Theatre, through its hosting of the Potomac Theatre Project as a major component of the annual politically charged and artistically acclaimed Potomac Theatre Festival. This festival, which utilizes all the performance facilities of the Olney Theatre Center, is a theatrical highlight of the region's theatrical activity.

Through the support of Middlebury College and the Olney Theatre Center, Potomac Theatre Project is able to provide current students and recent alumni with professional opportunities. Middlebury faculty members and Potomac Theatre Project/Olney Theatre Center professional artists and staff jointly mentor these opportunities, in acting, design, production and arts management.