Theatre
Theatre
Situated at the crossroads of L.A.’s theater, film, and television industries, the Theater Arts department at LAVC strives to integrate high professional standards with broad educational goals and maximum student opportunity; the Theater Arts faculty and staff comprise a rare combination of dedicated educators and experienced professionals, and the department’s programs mix a vibrant production schedule with a comprehensive slate of classes serving both traditional and non-traditional students and campus and community audiences.
Programs
Theatre Arts Degrees and Certificates
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- The study of Theater Arts has as its core the presentation of live performances. Student actors, writers, designers, directors, and technicians apply skills of critical thinking and creative interpretation to a wide range of dramatic literature and to the cultures and periods that produce that literature; they undertake the nuanced research necessary to construct a contextual frame for dramatic literature; and they exercise the imaginative reach to make those fictional worlds come to life. Students completing the Associate in AA-T in Theatre Arts for Transfer degree will have satisfied the lower division major preparation at most CSUs in Theater, Theatre Arts, and Drama.
Theatre Arts: Associate of Art for Transfer Program Mapper
Students earning the Theater Arts AA Degrees with an option in Acting, Directing, and Technical have obtained skills for entry-level employment in theater or for career advancement.
- Students earning the Theater Arts AA Degrees with an option in Acting, Directing, and Technical have obtained skills for entry-level employment in theater or for career advancement.
Theatre Arts: Acting Associates of Art Program Mapper
- Students earning this certificate have obtained skills for entry-level employment in the theater. Analyze live performance and script analysis against a background of political, sociological, historical, cultural and economical influences. Communicate, in terminology specific to theatre, with a production team and collaborate with other artists to produce a finished production. Apply and contribute to the processes specific to live production.
Theatre Production Certificate of Achievement Program Mapper
- This certificate program is designed to channel the student who wishes to emphasize performance in the musical theater. Completion of the certificate will enable a student to more effectively audition and seek professional acting, singing and dancing jobs in the specialized area of musical theater stage performance.
Musical Theatre Certificate of Achievement Program Mapper
- This skills certificate is designed to channel the student’s training to emphasize the performance aspect of theater through the use of scripted material and improvisational techniques. Completion of the certificate will enable a student to more effectively audition and seek professional acting jobs in both the stage and film industries.
Theatrical Performance Certificate of Achievement Program Mapper
Faculty Profiles
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- Master of Arts in Theatre, Regent University '24 (expected)
- Teaches Directing/Production classes
- Fun Fact - His beverage of choice is a simple, unsweetened ice tea.
- Pronouns: He/Him
- MFA in Theater Design from the University of Minnesota
- Teaches Acting, Directing, and Musical theatre classes
- Fun Fact - I was in Cats.
- Pronouns: She/Her
- MFA in Theatre/Lighting Design from Florida State University
- Teaches Intro, History, Design, and Technical Theatre classes
- Fun Fact - I love to bake and has three dogs that like to eat cookies.
- Pronouns: She/Her
Mark Svastics, Performing Arts Technician and Adjunct Faculty
- Marquette University - Radio Production 1982-1984
CSUN BA Radio-Television-Film-Film Production Minor in Theatre 1992
Boston University MFA Technical Theatre 1996 - Teaches Technical theatre classes and Production Classes
- Fun Fact - When I was 5 years old my parents sent me to Hungary even though I didn't speak the language. It was okay because my relatives didn't speak English, so we were even.
- Pronouns: He/Him
Samantha Jaffray, Costume Maker and Adjunct Faculty
- AA-T in Theatre from LAVC 2017
Licensed Cosmetologist 2012 - Teaches Costuming for the Theatre, Stage Makeup and Production Classes
- Fun Fact - Is an encyclopedia for late 90s- early 2000s pop culture.
- Pronouns: She/Her
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