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279 Master's degrees in Drama in North America
Directing and Design Production
The Directing and Design Production program of University of Victoria, British Columbia requires practical theatre experience.
Theatre - Stage Management
The Theatre - Stage Management program at Columbia University provides a holistic approach for students who wish to pursue careers as professional stage managers.
Acting for Film
During the New York Film Academy Master of Fine Arts (MFA) Acting for Film program, students build mastery and expertise in the craft of acting through technical, emotional, and physical coursework and projects.
Costume Design
The Costume Design MFA Program at California Institute of the Arts CalArts encourages students to break with traditional notions of costume design—and think instead in terms of garments that expand or otherwise reshape the physical space of performers.
Theatre - Performance
The Theatre - Performance MFA program offered at Arizona State University reenvisions the role of the artist in society who focuses on the devising and development of new work.
Drama Therapy
The Drama Therapy Program at California Institute of Integral Studies has been exploring how therapeutically-adapted dramatic processes work over time to heal wounds, facilitate lasting change, and help people reach their highest potential.
Theatre
The Theatre MAT program offered at University of South Carolina prepares students seeking initial certification in theatre for careers in public education. Students participate in two extensive internships in public schools in addition to other teaching opportunities in combination with the coursework.
Costume Design
The Costume Design program at University of Tennessee Knoxville is a challenging yet rewarding program intended to prepare the successful candidate for a career in the professional world of Theatrical Design.
Theatre
The Theatre MA program from Arizona State University introduces students to graduate study in the field of theatre and performance studies and provides a broad base of knowledge in the areas of history and historiography, theory, literature and dramaturgy, and practice.
Lighting Design
Illuminate your path to success with Florida State University's Lighting Design MFA master program. This dynamic program blends artistic creativity with technical expertise, preparing students for thriving careers in the field of lighting design.
Professional Creative Writing - Professional Dramatic Writing
Cultivate your passion for creating texts that are meant to be performed in person, on film, on radio, or in new media such as podcasts in the Professional Creative Writing - Professional Dramatic Writing program of the University of Denver.
Musical Theatre
Musical Theatre from University of Central Oklahoma will help prepare students in the field of music performance develop a higher level of proficiency in performing and directing musical theatre in a variety of contexts, culminating in a recital and/or special performance.
Theatre Arts
The Master of Fine Arts program in Theatre Arts, offered by The University of Iowa, requires a minimum of 61 s.h. of graduate credit, plus additional courses and production requirements depending on the student's specialty area of concentration. Students normally must complete six semesters in residence (internships may be substituted).
Theatre
Theatre from Texas A&M University–Commerce offers an intensive study of dramatic traditions as well as practical, artistic explorations.
Acting
The Acting program of University of California, Irvine (UCI) is devoted to the development of working professional actors: actors who can make for themselves a successful professional life in an extraordinarily competitive field and who possess the skills, insight, intelligence, creativity, and vision to create the theatre of the future.
Performance (Vocal Arts)
The Performance (Vocal Arts) MM program offered at University of Southern California is a two-year, 30-unit program consisting of individual instruction, ensembles, cantata and oratorio, pedagogy, vocal literature, music history and electives. A graduate recital is required.
Theatre Arts - Interpretation and Performance Studies
This Theatre Arts - Interpretation and Performance Studies program at Eastern Michigan University is grounded in the creative and scholarly examination of the performing act. It is our belief that performance, whether based in the broad culture, aesthetics or everyday life, is the creative and expressive basis for understanding human action and interaction.
Theatre Studies
Performance is the key to everything we do. Our graduate Theatre Studies program at University of Victoria, British Columbia teach in a comprehensive and immersive style.
Theatre Education
The Department of Theatre is accredited by the National Association of Schools of Theatre (NAST). We offer a master degree in Theatre Education at Columbus State University.
Playwriting
Playwriting is offered by Ohio University. The goal of the Professional Playwriting Program is to cultivate the individual artistic voice and vision of developing playwrights who, by developing new plays that actively engage in the contemporary social, scientific, political, and aesthetic debates of the nation, will become leaders in American Theater and active contributors to American culture.