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Your creative future starts at Detroit Mercy by earning your Bachelor of Arts with a major in Theatre! Join us as we discover new worlds and places that look just like our own. Learn by collaborating and exploring diverse perspectives with courage and compassion. Develop distinct skills leading toward many different career paths. Experience how mentorship is at the cornerstone of our program and the launching pad for a network full of connections and opportunities. Be amazed as you apply classroom theory to stage-time practice while creating experiences that lead to future opportunities.

The mission of the Detroit Mercy Department of Performing Arts is to train students to develop their intellectual, ethical and practical skills for a creative future. To accomplish this mission, we focus on five core concepts: Discovery, Collaboration, Skills, Mentorship and Future Opportunities.

We are a collective of artists composed of students, faculty and professional guest artists, producing gritty relevant theatre that entertains and awakens the imagination. We are concerned with stimulating artistic expression by articulate, dynamic and creative people.

Connecting classroom curriculum with practical experience, Detroit Mercy Theatre Company, the production arm of the Department of Performing Arts, produces a variety of live performances on the Detroit Mercy McNichols campus, at professional theatres in our community and travels throughout Metro Detroit. We produce cutting-edge works by contemporary playwrights, original works, musicals and classic plays from the American theatre cannon.

Students majoring or minoring in theatre will work with faculty advisors to develop the course of study that best suits their professional goals.