MA in Drama (Thesis-based) in Edmonton Canada | University of Alberta

The Department of Drama provides advanced degree programs including a PhD in Performance Studies, MFA degrees in Theatre Design, Directing, Theatre Voice Pedagogy, and Theatre Practice, along with an MA in Drama.

Students gain access to professional-grade facilities throughout their studies, featuring performance venues, workshops, rehearsal studios, classrooms, libraries, graduate workspaces, computer labs, and seminar rooms. The Timms Centre for the Arts boasts a 289-seat proscenium theater, a secondary black box space, theater archives, prop workshops, production offices, costume departments, dressing rooms, and a green room. The Fine Arts Building provides diverse studio and performance environments for academic and creative work.
A distinctive performance studies methodology connects theatrical practice with cultural studies, enabling students to enhance their research with insights into artistic creation processes.
Hands-on participation opportunities
Exploration of diverse historical periods, genres, philosophies, and styles through comparative, historical, Brechtian, feminist, intercultural, post-colonial, and critical frameworks, incorporating gender studies, audience analysis, semiotics, phenomenology, and discourse theory