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Explore the local area and community. Extended Studies Offering innovative continuing education arts courses designed to meet the needs of both emerging artists and lifelong learners. Schools Art Critical Studies Dance Film/Video Music Theater Request Info Apply Give School of Theater Home Programs Current Season Faculty and Staff Visiting Artists Alumni Facilities Opportunities Home ’The Hendrix Project’ Dedicated to the development of new voices and new forms, CalArts is one of the preeminent theater training grounds in the country, designed to educate the whole person and to prepare fully equipped theater artists to transform the field. The School of Theater offers students an educational experience that is experimental, interdisciplinary, international, and diverse. Each unique Program gives students the flexibility, skills, and critical thinking tools to navigate a rapidly changing field and to pursue their professional goals with maximum agency. Our educational mission is to forge a community of citizen artists who are rigorously trained in their respective métiers and who are able to work effectively and innovatively across a broad spectrum of artistic settings, media, and technologies. As the School is based in Los Angeles, the epicenter of film and media production, the training gives considerable attention to students having the versatility to succeed in a variety of arenas. Theater students are especially encouraged to build professional experiences and relationships while in school, mining every opportunity for them to create effective careers after graduation. The CalArts Center for New Performance, the Institute’s professional producing arm, embodies the School’s firm commitment to open exactly such possibilities for talented, ambitious students. Apply Request Information Program Areas Performance Experience Design and Production Video Introduction to Theater CNP CalArts Center for New Performance Portfolio Review Actors Showcase Latest News May 13, 2024 Scenes from CalArts Graduation 2024 The sunny spring day of Friday, May 10 saw a burst of sculptural flora sprouting on the stage of... May 2, 2024 2024 Winners of the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts Announced On May 2, 10 risk-taking, mid-career artists were announced as the recipients of the 2024... April 30, 2024 Brandon Stirling Baker Earns Tony Nomination The Tony Award nominations, which honor excellence in live Broadway theater, were announced on... April 26, 2024 Don Cheadle Talks Time at CalArts on SmartLess Podcast Don Cheadle (Theater BFA 86), the incredibly versatile actor known for his roles in films like... April 3, 2024 In Memoriam: Lou Florimonte The CalArts community mourns the loss of beloved teacher and alumnus Lou Florimonte (Film/Video... View All News School Gallery Center for New Performance production, "Shelter" "The Threepenny Opera" by Bertolt Brecht with music by Kurt Weill, directed by Kameron Steele "Desire Under the Elms" by Eugene O’Neill, directed by Zoe Moore "Beyond the Horizon" by Eugene O’Neill, directed by Chi-Wang Yang "Purgatory in Ingolstad"’ by Marieluise Fleisser, directed by Marina McClure "John Gabriel Borkman" by Henrik Ibsen, directed by Maureen Huskey Center for New Performance production, "Prometheus Bound" at the Getty Villa Calendar of Events View All Events Student Story Jenny Foldenauer Costume Design MFA 12 Ovation Award and L.A. Drama Critics Circle Award-winning Costume Designer Jenny Foldenauer As a little girl I wanted to be a painter, but soon realized that textiles and clothing were my medium. What I love about costume design–which is different from fashion–is that I am creating characters, parts of new worlds imagined by a writers, directors, set, lighting and sound designers—and even the actors—we’re all coming together to create a living, breathing canvas, to tell a story. My first crucial career contact was made at portfolio review at the end of my last year at CalArts. I met Matthew McCray, the producing artistic director of Son of Semele, who hired me for Our Class . Through that, I connected with Jessica Kubzansky at the Theatre at Boston Court, for which I did Everything You Touch . That was a huge endeavor, atypical for a 99-seat theater. I had more than 130 costumes for an eight-person cast, and there were a lot of logistical and technical issues, before we even before got to the creative. There were three model characters that had to represent scenery, that went off stage and back on several times, and changed into different parts because there were, literally, 22 scenes that switched back and forth between two time periods. A lot of theater magic! To someone considering applying to CalArts, or to an accepted student, I would...