Opportunities

Experiential Learning

Internships and Summer Experience

• Public and Commercial TV, Radio, and Film: KDKA-TV (Pittsburgh), NBC Headquarters (New York City), WJET, WQLN, WSEE, WICU (Erie), WQED (Pittsburgh), WEWS-TV (Cleveland), David Letterman Show (New York City), Lloyd Segan Company (film production, Los Angeles)
• Broadcast Journalism: WCBS (New York), WMAL (Washington, D.C.), WMGW (Meadville)
• Public Relations, Advertising, Graphic Arts: Grey Advertising (New York City, Bucharest), Ketchum Advertising (Pittsburgh), Pittsburgh Pirates, Detroit Pistons, Pennsylvania DEP, London Towers Basketball Club (London, England)
• Arts Administration: Three Rivers Shakespeare Festival, New York City Theatre, Meadville Council on the Arts, Chautauqua Institution,
• Theater: Santa Fe Opera, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, Pittsburgh Light Opera, Student Playwrights' Festival of Original Plays, City Theatre, San Francisco Western Opera Theatre, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Florida Studio Theatre

Equity Guest Artist Program

Established theatre professionals (actors, directors, designers, etc.) visit campus once per year, giving workshops and seminars and working closely with students in a production. Many are Allegheny graduates.

College Productions

• The Playshop Theatre produces 3-4 shows per year (Some recent examples: Everyman, The Bacchae, Midsummer Night's Dream, Rhinoceros, The Learned Ladies, Machinal)
• Student Experimental Theatre is student-run and student-directed, producing a varied number of shows each year (one-acts, annual musical, variety shows, and full-length plays).
• Orchesis modern dance troupe and Allegheny Repertory Dance mount a number of shows each year.
• National touring shows at Allegheny give students a chance to crew professional productions.

Student Media

• ACTV Television Station
• WARC-FM Radio Station
• The Campus (weekly newspaper)
• Allegheny Literary Review
• Allegheny Review (only national undergraduate literary magazine in the country)
• The Fourth Wall (non-juried creative journal).

Graduate School

• About 60% of our majors eventually attend graduate or professional school.
• About 20% go on directly, with a 95% acceptance rate. Recent schools include:
  • University of Kansas
  • Brooklyn College
  • Syracuse University
  • New York University
  • University of California, Berkeley
  • Pennsylvania State University
  • University of Pittsburgh
  • Northern Illinois University
  • University of Michigan
  • Northwestern University
  • University of Texas
  • DePaul University
• The most popular fields of study include: theatre design, arts management, mass communication theory, film and performance studies.

Career Data

• About 80% of our majors seek jobs directly after graduation, and many secure work in their fields right away. The most popular fields with a B.A. degree: technical theatre, stage management, arts management, radio-TV production, and cable television.
• The most popular fields with advanced degrees: college teaching, professional theatre/TV/film, law, and arts administration.