Department of Theater

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Theater at Swarthmore

Swarthmore's Theater Department is an educational and artistic laboratory—a place for testing the talents and intellect of students and faculty alike.

At Swarthmore, we combine a rigorous liberal arts education with the practical exploration of performance. We continually seek new working relationships between the academy and the professional theater and build bridges between the American theater and our international colleagues.

Our department encourages students to fully engage each other, our faculty, master artists, other disciplines and cultures, and ultimately the world beyond Swarthmore—while simultaneously nourishing each student's individual talents and aspirations.

Cornell Professorship: 2019-20 Final Report

Over the 2019-2020 Academic Year, Michał Zadara ’99 and Barbara Wysocka served as The Julien and Virginia Cornell Visiting Assistant Professors in the Department of Theater. Click the link below to read a brief report from Professor Allen Kuharski, as well as letters from Zadara & Wysocka reflecting on what they gained from their time at Swarthmore.

Cornell Visiting Professorship 19-20 Final Report

Portraits of Michal Zadara and Barbara Wysocka, side by side

THE WOMEN OF TRACHIS by Sophocles

THAT WHICH WILL REMAIN UNSEEN

Directed by Michał Zadara
with Alex Kingsley ’20, Nadia Malaya ’22, Josephine Ross ’21, Cynthia Ruimin Shi ’23, and Ziv Stern ’20 (dramaturg)

NO ONE WILL BE ADMITTED - NO ONE WILL BE ON STAGE
DON’T CALL FOR RESERVATIONS
NO LIVE STREAMING

Celebrating Black Excellence in the Many Forms It Takes: Thandiwe McMillan ’20

Check out the Phoenix article

UN-MUTE

Department of Theater presents UN-MUTE: THE NEW SOUND AT SWARTHMORE (two new radio plays) via Zoom on Friday, May 22, @ 8 pm EST

FILMS FROM THE SMOG YEARS

Visiting Cornell Professors Barbara Wysocka and Michał Zadara Show Work in the European Independent Film Festival (ÉCU) in Paris

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Academic Program

Academic Program Requirements for

See what is availa ble without prerequisites. Additional information on course schedules for upcoming semesters is available online and on the bulletin boards outside the Theater Department Office (LPAC 013) and in the Academic Catalog . Please direct any further questions to Jean Tierno, Administrative Assistant for the Theater Department at x8149 or jtierno1@swarthmore.edu. This information is subject to change.

Academic Program