“The School Is Our Theatre Troupe”
The School of Musical & Theater comprises Directing & Playwriting, Musical Acting, Theatre & Screen Acting, and Stage Design (Stage Design and Lighting Design tracks). Students collaborate across majors to produce performances within a professional production system—building practical skills, cross-disciplinary communication, and industry readiness.
Musical Acting Major
With 1:1 vocal training and production-centered practicums, we strengthen each student’s strengths in an immersive, hands-on environment. Through integrated training in voice, acting, and choreography, students learn to design their own learning methods and achieve rapid growth. Tailored instruction fosters creative performers capable of portraying diverse characters, while creation-focused courses cultivate future musical creators as well as performers.
Theatre & Screen Acting Major
More than 30 hours of intensive studio training per week, combined with humanities-based character studies, help students build authentic, self-directed characters. We explore diverse contemporary forms—including puppetry, physical theatre, and immersive theatre—while expanding media-acting adaptability through camera performance, filming and editing practice, and web drama production. Creator training also prepares students for the MCN/web-drama market.
Stage Design Major
After a shared first-semester course in Basic Design, students choose a specialized path from the second semester and receive practical training across stage and lighting fields. Stage Design develops creators who can conceptualize and build theatrical spaces with artistic literacy and technical skill—covering text & image, visual space, theatre space design, production design, and iterative design projects. Making courses cover core techniques such as stagecraft fundamentals, standard set construction, three-dimensional fabrication, and scene-change mechanisms. We also train students across adjacent domains—props and video—through courses in stage technology, set design, workshop practice, video expression, and stage-video interfaces.
The school houses one of the largest stage-production facilities among Korean universities (9 meters in height, 486 m²). Each semester, students join production practicums as stage designers, set fabricators and painters, prop designers and makers, video designers, and operators.
Lighting Design Track
Lighting Design cultivates storytellers who shape space with light. From text & image and visual space to theatre space design, production design, and design projects, students learn to visualize and compose with light. Step-by-step technical courses—including lighting expression, moving lights and Ion console, and MA console—develop the ability to turn technique into expressive art. State-of-the-art equipment, three theatres, and dedicated practice spaces enable students to grow their craft. Each semester, students participate in production practicums as lighting designers, programmers, directors, follow-spot operators, and console operators.
Directing & Playwriting Major
Students engage in practical training and production practicums at least three times per week to become contemporary creators who generate and stage original works. Through a production-centered curriculum, they move from text creation to production organization and operation, collaborating with actors and stage staff to complete fully staged performances—gaining the ability to translate artistic themes into live performance.
A Stage-Rich Education
Our system mounts over 50 productions annually—licensed musicals, original works, plays, and shadow theatre—ensuring that every student experiences the full range of theatre-making.
Professional Production System
Each production engages acting majors and stage-design students across scenery, lighting, video, and stage management, replicating real-world conditions for immersive 10:00–22:00 rehearsal schedules.
Advanced Programs for Specialization
Students grow through creation-led programs such as the Shakespeare Program and self-directed LABs that deepen major-specific competencies.