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Students Chris Wilson (L) and Lindsay Snyder (R) perform with Equity actors Tim Getman and Maia DeSanti in the UM/Woolly Mammoth blended production of ‘Savage in Limbo’, designed by MFA students and directed by faculty member and Woolly Mammoth company member Mitchell Hébert

Professional Partnership Initiative

For all aspiring theatre students, whatever their specialty, the opportunity to collaborate with professionals is critical to their education, their experience, and their resume. With our outstanding location in a vibrant theatre community, Maryland’s Department of Theatre has the ability to establish partnerships with theatre companies of all shapes and sizes—providing opportunities not available to students in many other parts of the country.

We have achieved substantial success through our professional partnerships with Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company and African Continuum Theatre Company. The productions that have resulted from these partnerships, blending student actors, technicians, and designers with professional guest artists, have become a cornerstone of the Department of Theatre's main production seasons. See our Season Archives for more information on these productions: Curse of the Starving Class, The Piano Lesson, Savage in Limbo, The Distance From Here, Hotel Cassiopeia. 

We continue to explore dynamic collaborations with nationally acclaimed professional organizations; it is a priority for us to build these partnerships. They provide ongoing support to engage professional artists -- in the creation of productions, and as leaders of master classes and special topics courses as well.