Welcome From the Department Chair

Welcome to the website for the theatre program at the University of Montevallo.

Our program of over 90 BA/BFA majors is large enough to challenge you, but no student is a number at UM.  You will be mentored by full-time faculty members with extensive professional experience, but committed to teaching as their first priority.

Noted film actor Val Kilmer once defined his craft as, "setting impossible goals and then trying to achieve them." At UM, students are encouraged to pursue the "impossible" and continually challenge themselves to grow artistically and personally during their time in our program.

Please explore the information on this site in detail, which will give you a sense of the classes, productions and on and off-campus experiences that await you as a UM theatre major.  We offer the BA degree, which allows you to explore all areas of theatre, but also pre-professional BFA degree tracks with emphasis in Musical Theatre, Acting, Directing, Costume Design and Lighting/Scenic Design.

Our production seasons are designed to expose you to a wide range of styles, including classics and large and small cast musicals every year. We are also committed to staging challenging plays by the best contemporary authors and have continually produced an "Alabama premiere" of a play or musical in recent seasons!  Our students enjoy an active guest artist program and have benefited from participation in exciting off-campus collaborations such as our co-production of PARADE at the Virginia Samford Theatre (Fall 2009) /thea/PARADE_Review , or musical theatre intensive workshops in NYC (January 2010 and 2011).

We think it's a combination that can't be beat and encourage you to see a production (tickets are free for prospective students), visit campus or sit in on a theatre class to see what makes us special.  Please call Ms. Pam Lucas at 205-665-6210 for tickets or e-mail me at callaghand@montevallo.edu with any questions.  We hope to see you at our campus auditions in February for scholarships and the Musical Theatre program, and check this site for audition details, applications and numerous other updates on the program including alumni activities around the U.S.

 Best Regards,

 David Callaghan, MFA, Ph.D.

 Professor of Theatre and Chair

 (205) 665-6210

 callaghand@montevallo.edu