Honours BA in Drama - St. George in Toronto Canada | University of Toronto

The undergraduate program at the Centre for Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies (CDTPS) blends comprehensive academic study with exceptional hands-on training. Students gain a cohesive set of analytical and creative abilities to examine wider intellectual, social, and political themes across the Humanities and other disciplines. Alongside theoretical and historical studies in theatre and performance, dramatic literature, dramaturgy, and technical aspects, the Centre provides foundational and advanced studio classes in acting, production, design, directing, and playwriting. The Digital Dramaturgy Lab (DDL)² and the innovative BMO Lab in Creative Research in the Arts, Performance, Emerging Technologies, and AI offer students distinctive opportunities to create projects integrating new technologies with performing arts, featuring global perspectives and cross-disciplinary methods.
Graduates from our program often pursue combined majors in Humanities, Social Sciences, and Sciences, such as English, Women and Gender Studies, Cinema Studies, Sexual Diversity Studies, Art History, Classics, Religion, Anthropology, Canadian Studies, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, Human Biology, Computer Science, and Cognitive Science. The undergraduate program utilizes two dedicated theatres—the Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse and Luella Massey Studio Theatre—along with various performance and rehearsal spaces accessible to CDTPS students and faculty.