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SUCCESS STARTS HEREBFA in Musical Theater major and Dance minor Brett Thiele ’13 was cast in Broadway’s Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark in an ensemble role.

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EVERY YEAR, MORE THAN

AUDITION FOR PERFORMING

ARTS AT PACE

1,500 CURRICULUM

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.

The Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Acting is a competitive and comprehensive pre-professional 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

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.

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 DirectingThe 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 project-oriented, 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 pre-professional 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.

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“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• In The Heights • Mamma Mia!• American Idiot• Bring It On• Catch Me If You Can• Beauty and the Beast

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)

TELEVISION• Law and Order: SVU• Days of Our Lives• Hawaii Five-O• Combat Hospital• Parks and Recreation• A Gifted Man

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.

REAL WORLD EXPERIENCE

FACILITIES

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. ”-Patrick Pribyl, BFA Acting

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PERFORMANCE OPPORTUNITIES

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.

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.

• West Side Story • Hairspray• Shrek The Musical• West Side Story

• 10 Things I Hate About You (ABC)• The Forgotten• GCB• True Blood• CSI: Miami