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Program Head: Barbara Sturgis
(801) 581-3269
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The Stage Management Program is a pre-professional program designed to prepare students for entry-level positions in theater and/or for further education at a graduate level. This is the only Bachelor's program in Stage Management in Utah.
 All Stage Management students are required to stage-manage and/or assistant stage-manage approximately eight to ten shows. This experience allows our students to refine their stage management skills and technique. Offering hands-on experience, our program helps each student build a substantial resume' prior to graduation.
Stage Management students are given the opportunity to work with numerous local professional Stage Managers and companies on a regular basis with department /instructor approval while completing their course work. In addition to student productions, our students have had the opportunity to work with Utah Opera, Pioneer Theatre Company, Plan-B Theatre, Sundance Institute and The Salt Lake Acting Company, Lagoon, The Grand Theatre, and the Egyptian Theatre Company.
Our students are sought after by professional theatres and the best graduate schools in the country upon completion of their BFA Stage Management degree.
Department of Theatre Core Requirements
THEA 1120 Acting I for Majors 3 Fall
THEA 1160 Production: Babcock /crew 1 Fall/Spring
THEA 1170 Production: Lab/crew 1 Fall/Spring
THEA 1550 Scenography 5 Fall/Spring
THEA 1713 Script Analysis 3 Fall
THEA 2713 Theatre Theory 3 Spring
THEA 3600 Stage Management 3 Fall/Spring
THEA 3720 Theatre History 3 CW* Fall
THEA 3730 Theatre History 3 CW* Spring
Total Required Core Hours 25
All course requirements for the major must be completed with a grade of "C" or better.
*CW = meets U of U Bachelor's Degree Requirements for Upper-division Communication/Writing
Stage Management BFA Program Requirements
THEA 2203 Costume Construction 3
or THEA 2140 Costume Design I 3
THEA 2150 Stagecraft 3
THEA 1740 Musical Theatre 3
THEA 2110 Scene Design I 3
THEA 2170 Lighting Design I 3
THEA 3110 Beginning Stage Directing 3
THEA 3500 Sound Design I 3
THEA 3912 PADP Individual SM Proj 9
THEA 4912 PADP Individual SM Proj.II 9
THEA 4110 Acting/Directing Shakespeare 3
THEA 4600 Advanced Stage Management 3
THEA 4950 Individual Project in Stage Mgmt 1-5
H EDU 1950 First Aid and Emergency Care 4
THEA Electives 6
Directed Electives 12
Stage management majors must PSM Lab and Babcock shows at 3 credit hrs each, and/or ASM Pioneer Theatre show subject to instructor approval. Another project may be substituted.
Theatre Core requirements 25 hrs.
Stage Management Requirements, approx 68 hrs.
General Education Requirements 30 hrs.
Total approx 123 hrs.
NOTE: University of Utah Requirements: Of the total of 122 semester credit hours, students must take 40 “upper-division” credit hours. Any class numbered 3000 or above is designated as “upper-division.” Refer to the University of Utah Undergraduate Bulletin for Graduation Requirements
Students are accepted into the stage management emphasis with the approval of the head of the program. Continuance in the program is based on a yearly
evaluation of the student's progress.
All Theatre Majors are required to meet with their Faculty Advisors at least once
each academic year.
STAGE MANAGEMENT FACULTY/MENTORS
Barbara Sturgis, Assistant Professor (Clinical)
Head of the Stage Management Program
Jeffrey Williams
Production Stage Manager, Pioneer Theatre Company
Stage Management Suggested Reading List
Stage Management by Lawrence Stern (6th or 7th edition)
The Backstage Guide to Stage Management by Thomas A. Kelly
Stage Management & Theatre Etiquette: A Basic Guide by Linda Apperson
Stage Management Forms & Formats by Barbara Dilker
Backstage Handbook by Paul Carter
The Stage Management Handbook by Daniel A. Ionazzi
Theatre Backstage From A to Z by Warren C. Loonsbury & Norman Boulanger
The Performing Arts Design Program Suggested Reading List:
Appia, Adolphe. Music and the Art of the Theatre.
Aristotle. The Poetics
Aronson, Arnold. American Set Design I
Bay, Howard. Stage Design
Blumenthal, Eileen. Julie Taymor: Playing with Fire
Brook, Peter. The Empty Space
Burian, Jarka. The Scenography of Joseph Svoboda
Castle, Charles. Oliver Messel
Clurman, Harold. The Fervent Years
Corey, Irene. The Mask of Reality
Corson, Richard. Stage Makeup
Courtney, Cathy. Jocelyn Herbert: A Theatre Workbook
Craig, Edward Gordon. Towards a New Theatre
Goodwin, John. British Theatre Design
Hays, David. Light on the Subject
Henderson, Mary C. Mielziner: Master of Modern Stage Design
Howard, Pamela. Scenography
Jones, Robert Edmond. The Dramatic Imagination
Jones, Robert Edmond. Drawings for the Theatre
Kaye, Deena and LeBrecht, James. Sound and Music for the Theatre
Larson, Orville K. Stage Design in the American Theatre: from 1915 to 1960
McCandless, Stanley. A Method for Lighting the Stage
Mielziner, Jo. Designing for the Theatre
Mullin, Michael. Design by Motley
Oenslager, Donald. Stage Design: Four Centuries of Invention
Oenslager, Donald. The Theatre of Donald Oenslager.
Paine, Darwin Reid. The Scenographic Imagination
Pectal, Lynn. Costume Design
Pilbrow, Richard. Stage Lighting Design
Rich, Frank and Lisa Aronson. The Theatre of Boris Aronson.
Rosenthal, Jean. The Magic of Light
Rosenfeld, Sybil. A Short History of Scene Design in Great Britain
Simonson, Lee. The Stage is Set
Simonson, Lee. The Art of Scenic Design
Smith, Ronn. American Set Design II
Stern, Lawrence. Stage Management
Svoboda, Josef. The Secret of Theatrical Space
Willett, John C. Casper Neher.
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