The MFA Squeeze: Maintaining Excellence in a Changing Landscape

AMERICAN THEATRE: Across the country, as graduate training programs select candidates for incoming cohorts, administrators are also making tough decisions about program offerings due to budgetary restrictions. The pandemic has had an outsize effect on universities, and the economic downturn of the past three years is forcing some graduate theatre training programs to pull back on recruitment efforts, reduce class sizes, and cut production budgets.