Performing Arts

More than just a musical theatre school, Randolph College transforms performers into multi-talented professional artists through a rigorous training program that integrates acting for the stage and screen, vocal, and dance (jazz, ballet, tap), as well as theory and history.

The Randolph College curriculum has a forward-thinking two-fold design: provide a solid foundation in the performer’s craft, but also emphasize the artists’ responsibility to express their unique creativity genuinely and authentically.

Coursework is undertaken in three Academic Years and completed over 24 months. Each Academic Year is two terms of study, each 14 weeks long. Students spend an average of 27 hours per week in classes and related activities. A total of 40 credits is required to earn the Private Career College Diploma in Performing Arts.

What You’ll Learn

• Scene Study: Core acting class focusing on monologues and scene work.
• Musical Theatre Presentation: Core vocal class focusing on acting through song.
• Dance: Weekly Ballet, Jazz and Tap classes, students are individually accessed and placed in multi-level classes depending on their skill in each style of dance. Randolph College of Performing Arts has 6 levels of Ballet and Jazz, and 4 levels of Tap so that students always work at a level that supports their learning.
• Acting Foundations: utilize techniques and practices from a range of contemporary theatrical pedagogies, exercises, practices and projects focused on training the actor’s presence, reactivity, impulse, imagination, mind-body connection and complicity as an ensemble.
• Musical Theatre History Rehearsal: Ensemble class focusing on rehearsal techniques and staging conventions for musical theatre repertoire. Students perform large ensemble numbers and small group numbers for an end-of-term- presentation.
• Musical Theatre Lab: Immerses students in the process of creating a new piece of musical theatre by writing dialogue and song lyrics in collaboration with their fellow students.
• Film: Classes cover acting for the camera, including the more technical aspects of the filmmaking process.
• Additional classes include: Improvisation, movement, voice and text, Shakespeare, stage combat, and professional development workshops in seeking representation.
• The training culminates in a full-length play production with a professional director, and a musical production during the final year with a professional director, music director and choreographer. All students perform in both productions as part of the curriculum.