Theatre

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Professors Bernhard, Cameron, Horowitz, Pronko, Shay, Taylor
Resident Artist and Professor Leabhart
Resident Designer and Professor Linnell
Assistant Professor Lu, Martinez
Lecturers Blumenfeld, Kemp, Portillo

Pomona College serves as theatre program for the five undergraduate Claremont Colleges. Curriculum includes the study of theatre history and dramatic literature dramaturgy, performance, and design and technology. Theatre students become proficient in devising creative solutions to complex problems. They also develop sensitivity to the interpersonal relationships inherent in the collaborative process. Thus, they are prepared for a wide variety of careers in organizations and enterprises that value these qualities.

While encouraging broad development, the department also prepares its students for further study on either the graduate or professional level. Many department graduates have become successful members of the professional performance community as actors, dancers, designers and technicians, producers, directors, writers, dramaturgs, teachers, and administrators.

The department presents at least four major productions and a dance concert each year in the modern Seaver Theatre Complex at Pomona College. Student performers and production personnel are drawn from majors and non-majors alike from all The Claremont Colleges. The department also co-sponsors a dynamic season of student-generated productions.

The Philbrick Fund, a bequest of distinguished theatre historian Norman Philbrick (PO ’35), supports the department’s Distinguished Visiting Artist/Lecturer Series. Past artist/lectures have included theatre scholar Martin Esslin, designers William and Jean Eckart, director/playwright George C. Wolfe (PO ’76), actress/playwright Anna Deavere Smith, actor Karl Malden, director-writer Eugenio Barba, The Shanghai Beijing and Shanghai Kun Chinese Opera companies, The Martha Graham Dance Company, performance artist Rachel Rosenthal, and residencies by actors from the London stage and director/playwright Luis Valdez.

Programs

• Courses in Theatre
• Theatre Major
• Theatre Minor

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