The Franklin College Department of Theatre is open to all students regardless of experience or major. Faculty serve as collaborators and mentors to help you do your best work. The work you do in theatre classes is hands on and you have opportunities not only to perform but also to direct and design. When you graduate from Franklin College with a degree in theatre, you won’t leave a bunch of projects from a class, but realized designs (lighting and scenery) from our mainstage productions.

Special Programs

The Richard A. Harrison Endowment for Theatre was established through a generous donation from Richard Harrison (’57), an Emmy award-winning producer and director and Tony nominee. He was a passionate advocate of professional and educational theatre and saw the benefits of finding ways for the two to intersect. Through this endowment professional guest artists come to campus each year and work with students. The goals of the Richard A. Harrison Visiting Theatre Artist Program are:

1. to enrich and augment the curricular offerings of the theatre department.
2. to facilitate the interaction of students with artists who represent four core areas of theatre education: playwriting, directing, acting, and design.
3. to facilitate “hands on” engaged learning opportunities for students as a result of this interaction.
4. to strengthen relationships between regional and national theatres and teaching faculty members.
5. to establish institutional relationships between the theatre department and institutions with graduate theatre programs.
6. to foster the reputation of the Franklin College theatre department.
7. to enhance the cultural offerings to members of the campus, local, and metropolitan communities.

Through curricular offerings and co-curricular productions, the Franklin College Department of Theatre aims to develop students’ appreciation of theatre as an art form by expanding their understanding of theatre in historical and current society, as well as letting students develop their theatrical skills and abilities. Additionally the department serves the college community and the greater community by providing public productions that both entertain and challenge audiences.

The Franklin College theatre program is grounded in the liberal arts. Students take a variety of theatre courses within the college’s liberal arts curriculum. Our size—typically between 5 and 15 students in theatre class—fosters meaningful, close relationships between students and professors — in the classroom and in the theatre.

Student Learning Outcomes

• Students will work collaboratively on creative projects.
• Students will work individually on creative projects.
• Students will apply knowledge to a senior internship or research project.
• Students will use dramaturgical skills in theatrical research.

Tickets

• FREE with a valid FC ID
• $10 Students (under 18 or at another college) and Seniors (55+)
• $15 General Admission

Reservations can be made by email at ticketreservation@franklincollege.edu or by phone at 317.738.8029 or 800.852.0232, ext. 8029. Please claim reservations 10 minutes before the performance. The box office opens one half-hour (30 minutes) before the performance.

Location

The plays will be performed in the Théâtre Margot, which is located in the Johnson Center for Fine Arts on the Franklin College campus . Traveling west on State Road 44, take a left onto Forsythe Street. Turn right onto Jefferson Street, following the sign to the main entrance to the college. Turn left onto Branigin Boulevard. The Johnson Center for Fine Arts is on the left at the second stop sign.