M.F.A. emphasis in Acting

The M.F.A. emphasis in Acting program has transitioned to alternate-year recruiting. We will be recruiting for Fall 2026 admission beginning in October of 2025.

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Hosted by the UCI Drama faculty in Acting

UCI is devoted to the development of working professional actors: actors who can make for themselves a successful professional life in an extraordinarily competitive field and who possess the skills, insight, intelligence, creativity, and vision to create the theatre of the future. UCI has proven itself notably successful in training working professionals: virtually all of our MFA graduates in the past fifteen years now perform on stages around the country, on and off Broadway, in regional theatres, or in feature films and television series. Many hold faculty positions in university theatre departments (please see our Alumni Newsletter for all details). Such a degree of success cannot be achieved by actors who possess mere professional competence. UCI actors are successfully working in the acting profession because their talent - and their training - has made them exceptional.

Program Learning Outcome information for the M.F.A. program can be found here