Choose Your Path, or Blaze a New Trail.
Whether you are looking for a multi-faceted career, creative outlet, or both, the theatre program at Berry has you covered. With state-of-the-art facilities and small class sizes, our award-winning faculty of national standing can position you for any future you envision.
To develop students of all backgrounds and levels of experience, we embrace rigorous training with respect, empathy and compassion. To foster artist growth and professional preparation, our program emphasizes process over product, personal discovery over perfection and excellence overall.
Here you will experience the full range of roles behind a working production—including costume, set, sound and lighting design; production management; marketing; dramaturgy; acting and directing.
Theatre FACULTY
Director of Theatre Peter Friedrich rejoins Berry after returning from Finland as a 2021 Seeking Solutions to Global Challenges Fulbright Scholar. While there in May, he led an original theatre collaboration between students and asylum seekers from Ukraine and Afghanistan, winning two awards at the 2022 FinnFringe International Theatre Festival. His collaborators in similar original works include The Goodman Theatre and Oregon Shakespeare Festival. In 2020, he won a Top 100 Teachers Award from the Ellen DeGeneres Show for innovation during the pandemic. An actor for many years, he most recently played the titular role in the 2019 Off-Broadway revival of The Curious Case of the Watson Intelligence by Madeline George.
The newly constructed Sisters Theatre provides a beautiful, versatile venue for mounting theatrical productions, a black-box theatre with flexible seating and additional shop and classroom space.
Theatre Courses
Explore a range of vocal and physical techniques for creative expression in performance. Learn to find maximum effect with minimal effort and to connect your movement and voice to imagery and text.
Discover the collaborative contributions that costumes, scenery and lighting make to the art of theatre. Explore the materials, technologies, equipment, structures and best practices used in contemporary theatre production.
Consider the role of costume design in the theatre process. Learn figure drawing and the use of color media for the production of finished renderings. Historical and contemporary design styles will be considered.
Theatre LIVES
After shaping his talent and building his résumé at Berry, Stephen leveraged his theater major and business minor into a job performing with Carnival Cruise Line, traveling the world and sharing his talents with an international audience. Stephen credits his Berry professors and work supervisors who helped mentor and guide him from the stage and scene shop to this opportunity to live his dream of being a professional performer.
BERRY COLLEGE THEATRE COMPANY
Directed by Scott Willis
Choreography by Sara Pecina
October 5 - 9, 2022
Wed - Sat at 7 p.m.; Sunday Matinee at 2 p.m.
After transporting audiences to the jazz age with the musical Chicago last spring, the Berry College Theatre Company opens its season with Steve Martin and Edie Brickell’s uplifting Broadway tale of love and transformation in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. Featuring live Broadway Atlanta musicians and a Grammy-nominated score, this Tony-nominated musical promises to tap the toes and warm the heart!
Tickets now on sale at berry.edu/onstage
Box Office: 706.236.2263
All Reserved Seats $7
Free Standby Tickets for Remaining Seats to Berry Students, Faculty and Staff with ID
Ticket Sales End 30 Minutes Prior to Each Show
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