Overview
The Theatre and Performance program from Columbia University is designed at once to provide the opportunity for students to familiarize themselves with the prevailing traditions of Western and non-Western drama, theatre, and performance scholarship, as well as to identify a specific trajectory of individual research.
Overseen by an interdepartmental committee — faculty are drawn from the Theatre Program of the School of the Arts, the Institute for Comparative Literature, and the departments of English and Comparative Literature, Germanic Languages, Philosophy, Classics, the Barnard College Departments of Dance and Theatre, and others—the program encourages students to pursue interdisciplinary research across the wide spectrum of theatre and performance studies.
The relatively small size of the program ensures a close working relationship with supervising faculty; doctoral students in Theatre also work with doctoral students in other humanities fields, as well as with Theatre Program MFA students in directing, dramaturgy, and playwriting.
Doctoral students are typically admitted with a six-year package of funding, which combines both fellowship and teaching support. In the past decade, PhD students from the program have been appointed to tenure-track positions in a range of fields (English, theatre, performance studies) at Stanford, Princeton, Boston University, Indiana University, King's College London, the University of Texas at Austin, and elsewhere.
Fellowships
Fellowships are awarded in recognition of academic achievement and in expectation of scholarly success. Teaching and research experience are considered an important aspect of the training of graduate students. Thus, graduate fellowships include some teaching and research apprenticeship.
Programme Structure
Subjects:
- Traditions of Western
- Traditions of non-Western
- Drama
- Theatre
- Performance
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 84 months
Start dates & application deadlines
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Drama Music Performance View 65 other PhDs in Music Performance in United StatesAcademic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
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Other requirements
General requirements
- Students must submit one transcript showing courses and grades per school attended, a statement of academic purpose, and three letters of evaluation from academic sources.
- All international students whose native language is not English or whose undergraduate degree is from an institution in a country whose official language is not English must submit scores of the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) or IELTS.
Tuition Fee
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International
53576 USD/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 26788 USD per semester during 84 months. -
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53576 USD/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 26788 USD per semester during 84 months. -
In-State
53576 USD/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 26788 USD per semester during 84 months.
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Scholarships Information
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