After studying Theatre at Muhlenberg, you’ll be well-prepared for what comes next — whether you want to study at the graduate level, pursue a career as a professional artist, or contribute creative leadership in any number of other career fields. Our blend of rigorous academic work and world-class training has proven to be excellent preparation for work in today’s theatre industry and beyond!
Our alumni are thriving as actors, directors, designers, stage managers, technicians, educators, and arts administrators — on Broadway, in film and TV, and in arts organizations large and small, around the world. While many pursue the arts professionally, other graduates have enjoyed successful careers in a huge variety of fields, including medicine, law, publishing, business, and education.
Many of our alumni go on to pursue graduate studies, both in the performing arts and in other fields, ranging from medicine to law to cognitive science.
In recent years, Theatre & Dance students have attended graduate programs including:
- The American Conservatory Theatre
- Brown University/Trinity Rep
- Columbia University
- The David Geffen School of Drama at Yale
- Drexel University Neurosciences Institute
- The Juilliard School
- The Manhattan School of Music
- NYU Tisch School of the Arts
- Rutgers University
- Stanford University
- Temple University
