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One of 28 Jesuit colleges and universities in the U.S.
15,000 total enrollment
40% of undergrads come from outside Illinois
9 schools and colleges
14:1 student/faculty ratio
Total enrollment: More than 15,500
71 undergraduate majors and 71 minors
85 master's, 31 doctoral degrees, and 26 graduate-level certificate programs
13:1 student/faculty ratio
120,000 alumni; 80,000 in Chicago
One of only 8 percent of all American colleges and universities to have a Phi Beta Kappa honor society chapter
Undergraduate tuition (full-time entering 2007): 27,200
Loyola University Chicago, a private university founded in 1870 as St. Ignatius College, is the nation’s largest Jesuit, Catholic University and the only one located in Chicago.
Loyola University Chicago is comprised of four campuses: Lake Shore (LSC), Water Tower (WTC), Loyola University Health System (LUHS), and the John Felice Rome Center in Italy; and is home to ten schools and colleges: arts and sciences, business administration, communication, education, graduate studies, law, medicine, nursing, continuing and professional studies, and social work. Loyola also serves as the U.S. host university to the Beijing Center for Chinese Studies in Beijing, China.
Recognizing Loyola’s excellence in education, U.S.News and World Report has ranked Loyola consistently among the "top national universities" in its annual publications, and named the University a "best value" in its 2008 rankings.
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President Michael J. Garanzini, S.J.
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For our many Loyola alumni in Chicago and worldwide, this site offers you opportunities to reconnect, stay informed and be involved. We are proud of your many accomplishments and grateful for your continued support.
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The Fall 2006 freshman class had middle 50% ACT ranges between 23-28; middle 50% range on the SAT Verbal between 530-640; middle 50% range on the SAT Math between 520-640; and a mean GPA of 3.53. Transfer students for Fall 2006 had a mean GPA of 3.07. To learn more about test scores and other admission recommendations, please visit: LUC.edu/undergrad/checklist.shtml.
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95% of eligible students receive some form of financial assistance
69 undergraduate majors, 77 master’s, 36 doctoral, and 3 professional degree programs
Students come from 50 states and territories, and 82 countries outside the U.S.
97% of faculty have Ph.D.
More than 15 combined bachelor’s/master’s programs
17,306 applied, 2,134 enrolled (2006 freshman class)
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U.S. News & World Report's 2008 edition of America's Best Colleges again ranks Loyola University Chicago among the top national universities, and also names Loyola a "best value."
According to USN&WR: Best value "relates a school's academic quality, as indicated by its U.S. News ranking, to the net cost of attendance for a student who receives the average level of need-based financial aid. Only schools ranked in, or near, the top half of their categories are included, because we work on the premise that the most significant values are among colleges that are above average academically."
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Take advantage of Loyola's enriched fine arts programs, including a new facility and merged academic departments for greater synergy. The renovated building, located at 1131 W. Sheridan Road, just west of the El tracks, opened for Spring Semester 2007 and features classrooms and studios for sculpture, ceramics, jewelry and dance, as well as presentation studios, display areas and faculty offices. The new Department of Fine and Performing Arts now supports programs in theatre, music, fine arts and dance.
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LEARN ALL ABOUT THE THEATRE DEPARTMENT AT LOYOLA UNIVERSITY!
ABOUT US
Loyola's Department of Theatre is grounded in a liberal arts education. Our students receive a strong foundation in theatre history, criticism, and literature as well as world history, sociology, philosophy, political science, and ethics, all of which support their performance and design courses. Students can also pursue a double major with other academic majors if they wish.
Our program is unique in that it does not require undergraduate students to wait to audition for our productions. At the beginning of each school year, the department presents the "New Student Showcase" where new freshmen and transfer students are given the opportunity to perform in front of the faculty and their fellow students. The department gives students as many opportunities as possible to perform in a healthy, instructional atmosphere.
We believe that a large part of our success as a department is the caring, individual attention and support that are given to each and every student.
Students in Loyola's Theatre Department can pursue a double major with other academic majors if they wish. Our program is unque in that it does not require undergraduate students to wait to audition for our productions. At the beginning of each school year, the department presents the "New Student Showcase" where new freshmen and transfer students are given the opportunity to perform in front of the faculty and their fellow students. The department gives students as many opportunities as possible to perform in a healthy, instructional atmosphere. We believe that a large part of our success as a department is the caring, individual attention and support that are given to each and every student.
The department's mainstage season consists of three major productions and a studio season of four shows performed in our Black Box Theatre. There are currently more than 130 majors in the four-year program, with five full-time faculty, four support staff and a part-time faculty of approximately eight theatre specialists drawn from the Chicago theatre community. The four annual Black Box Studio Theatre productions are student-originated shows. Students are responsible for every phase of the production from the beginning proposal to the final stage presentation. In our three mainstage shows, students work closely with professionals to paint scenery, work on lighting, build costumes and construct sets. These experiences help students develop an all-encompassing theatre background.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS...
Q: Can freshman or non-major audition for the productions?
A: Yes, auditions are open to all students on campus.
Q: Can I double-major?
A: Yes, the majority of theatre majors are double-majors.
Q: Do you offer musical theatre?
A: No, We don't have a musical theatre program, but we do produce a musical each year. For that production we hire professional musical directors, choreographers, vocal directors, etc. who are actively working in theatre in Chicago. Students feel that they get excellent experience from working with these professionals. We also offer dance each year and you can take individual voice lessons through the music department.
Q: What opportunities are there in design and technical theatre?
A: Our design program is run by costume designer Jacqueline Firkins. We offer courses in stage design, lighting design, costume design, stage management, theatre management, drafting, crafts for the stage, etc. In our four studio productions, students are responsible for all of the design aspects. Some of our exceptional students have also designed for the mainstage.
Q: Do you have to audition to get into the program?
A: No, you don't have to audition to get into the theatre program. You need to be admitted into the University, then declare either a major or a minor in theatre. We do have auditions for scholarship money. These auditions are held each February and are available to incoming freshmen and transfer students. Please check the scholarship link on the home page of our web site.
Q: What internships are available?
A: Internships are offered on an individual basis. Since many of our faculty are involved in professional theatre, there are opportunities through them. If you work in outside, professional theatre and take our Fieldwork in Chicago course, you can earn 3 hours of credit.
Q: Do you offer graduate courses?
A: No, we are strictly an undergraduate program offering a B.A. in Theatre.
Q: Are there opportunities to study abroad in Theatre?
A: We have a summer in London course offered on a regular basis
Q: Is there a design or directing concentration?
A: In addition to our elective courses, there are many opportunities to get hands on training. Our program also offers a fully student directed and designed studio season. Production positions may have class prerequisites associated with it. Speak with your advisor for more information. If you have any other questions, please contact us at Theatre-info@luc.edu.
SCHOLARSHIPS
DEADLINE FOR SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS FOR STUDENTS ENTERING LOYOLA IN FALL 2009 IS SPRING 2009.
The Department awards over $100,000 in scholarships each year. Some of these awards are given to incoming freshmen and transfer students and are based on their audition or portfolio review, interview, and academic standing.
You can find the link to the application,which is a PDF file, at: http://www.luc.edu/finaid/scholarships.shtml under Academic Scholarships: Freshman or Academic Scholarships: Transfer students. Once you click on one of those hyperlinks, look for Theatre Scholarships. There you will find the link to the Theatre Scholarship Application.
Scholarship amounts will vary. To apply for these scholarships, please complete the application and return it to:
Department of Fine and Performing Arts-Theatre
Loyola University Chicago
6526 N. Sheridan Rd.
Chicago, IL 60626
If you need to overnight it:
Department of Fine and Performing Arts-Theatre, Loyola University Chicago, 1020 W. Sheridan Rd, Room 1200, Chicago, IL 60626
If you would like to request more information about Department of Fine and Performing Arts-Theatre scholarships, please contact Jeffrey Wonders at jwonder@luc.edu
For further information about the Theatre Program scholarships, please follow the link to: Theatre Scholarships
JUST A FEW OF OUR GIFTED FACULTY...
Sarah Gabel
Title: Chairperson, Department of Fine and Performing Arts
Office: Mundelein 1213
Phone: 773-508-8347
E-mail: sgabel1@luc.edu
Dr. Sarah Gabel is the Chairperson for the Department of Fine and Performing Arts. In addition, this year she serves as Acting Program Director of the International Film and Media Studies Program. She teaches a varitey of acting and directing classes and serves are director or LUC Theatre's Senior Showcase. She has served on a several university committees inclusing Academic Council for the College of Arts and Sciences, Faculty Council and the Strategic Coordinationg Committee. She is a member of the National Association of Schools of Theatre and the American Theatre Association for Higher Education.
Dr. Gabel has a strong interest in musical theatre particularly the works of Stephen Sondheim. On the Loyola University Chicago Mullady stage, she has directed SWEENEY TODD, THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET, ASSASSINS, INTO THE WOODS, A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC and WEST SIDE STORY. She has also directed MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG. Her recent professional directing credits include, CLIMBING THE COLCANO, Piccolo Theatre, THE FANTASTICKS, Organic theatre, THE INFERNAL MACHINE, The Eclipse Theatre and several CHICAGO CHRISTMAS REVELS for Revels Incorporated. Sarah has an interest in the development of new plays. She has directed the world premieres of Not EVEN THE CHILDREN (2000 ACTD Regional Finalist) written by alumnus Philip Dawkins, THE DEVIL IN DISPUTANTA, AMORPHOUS GEORGE (1986 ACTF Finalist), BULLY, AND AT THE PARADISE CLUB, Dr. Gabel will direct new wrks by playwright, Michael Bassett for 13Carat Productions at the Theatre Building in Chicago during the summer of 2008. She recently performed the role of Catherine in George Bernard Shaw;s ARMS AND THE MAN at Writer's Theatre with alumnus Elizabeth Ledo.
Ann Shanahan
Title: Assistant Professor
Office: Mundelein 1316
Phone: 773-508-8598
E-mail: ashanah@luc.edu
Ms. Ann Shanahan teaches Theatre History, Directing, and performance classes and is the Faculty Advisor for Director's Forum, a seminar in advanced directing which supports student directors in Loyola's Studio Season. She also mentors directors in the collaborative process with designers for Studio productions. In the Fall 2006 Semester, she will direct the first Studio production of HEDDA GABLER, which opens on October 4, 2006.
Ms. Shanahan's areas of interest and teaching specialties include director training, women and theatre, and theatre as a means for social change. Ms. Shanahan assisted in developing Loyola?s unique Studio Program, supporting a yearly season of student directed and designed plays, and has mentored numerous student directed productions since joining the Loyola faculty in 2000, including the Dead Man Walking Project. She was faculty coordinator for the Fall Platform Reading Series 2005. Ann currently serves as representative from Theatre to the Academic Council of the College of Arts and Sciences.
Prior to joining the Theatre Department full time, Ann worked for 10 years as a professional actor and director, and as a guest artist at several colleges and universities. She was an ensemble member of the Brecht Company in Ann Arbor, MI, and performed internationally in Stockholm and Prague with the American Drama Group and British Festival Theatre Company. Her professional directing credits include: THE VAGABOND and THE TURN OF THE SCREW for City Lit Theatre, LIES AND LEGENDS, WASP, WARRIOR, and THE LIVING for Buffalo Theatre Ensemble, DRUMS IN THE NIGHT for the Brecht Company, and TALK TO ME LIKE THE RAIN for The Drama League Director?s Project in New York. In addition, she has directed numerous productions at the university and college level in the Chicago area. Favorites include Ibsen's GHOSTS and A DOLL'S HOUSE, Brecht's MOTHER COURAGE, an original adaptation of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's THE YELLOW WALLPAPER, LOVES LABOURS LOST and THE LARAMIE PROJECT, and Maria Irene Fornes' FEFU AND HER FRIENDS and ABINGDON SQUARE. In 2006, Ms. Shanahan was the recipient of a Summer Research Grant from Loyola to initiate research toward a book on Chicago Theatre Directors.
Mark Lococo
Title: Director of Theatre
Office: Mundelein 1305
Phone: 773-508-7511
E-mail: mlococo@luc.edu
Mark E. Lococo most recently directed Mountain for the Apple Tree Theatre in Chicago, where he is an Artistic Associate. Previous productions there include the Midwest premiere of Dessa Rose (for which he was nominated for Chicago?s Joseph Jefferson Award for Best Direction of a Musical), Uncle Vanya, the Chicago premiere of A Man of No Importance (winner of the 2004 After Dark Chicago Award for Best Production of a Musical) The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin, Indian Ink, Syncopation, The Dresser, The Swan, The Marriage of Bette and Boo, Waiting for Godot, and Sugar. Also in 2006 he directed The Elephant Man at the Peninsula Playhouse in Wisconsin. In 2005, he directed Shaw?s Misalliance in a joint production of the Milwaukee Chamber Theatre and the University of Wisconsin Madison?s Graduate program, as well as a new musical version of The Princess and the Pea at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre. In 2004, he directed Trumbo featuring noted author and Chicago personality Studs Terkel for Steppenwolf Theatre?s Traffic Series. He directed The Taffetas at the Peninsula Playhouse and Marriott?s Lincolnshire Theatre, and was nominated for a Joseph Jefferson Award for Best Director of a Review. He also directed Nunsense there in 1997.
From 1997-1999, he was the Artistic Director of Theatre On the Bay in Marinette, Wisconsin, where he directed productions of Working, Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?, Lost in Yonkers, Crow and Weasel, and In Their Own Words: A Vietnam Chronicle, among others. In 1996, he directed A Christmas Carol for the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera. Prior to that, he spent several months in London assisting director David Bell on the West End production of Hot Mikado. He received his PhD in performance studies from Northwestern University, where he was the director of the theatre arts division of the National High School Institute (Cherub Program) from 1992-1997. In 2007 he will assume the Chair of the Theatre as a Liberal Art Focus Group of the Association of Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE). In the July of 2007, he participated in the Oxford Roundtable on the divide between the humanities and sciences. He will direct The Miser at the Northlight Theatre in Chicago in October, 2007.
Jonathan Wilson
Title: Professor
Office: Mundelein 1304
Phone: 773-508-3838
E-mail: Jwilso1@luc.edu
Mr. Jonathan Wilson teaches Play Direction and acting classes at Loyola University Chicago. Last year, he directed A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM on the Mainstage and looks forward to directing GUYS AND DOLLS on the Mainstage in the Spring.
His professional credits include: August Wilson's JITNEY for the Alley Theatre in Houston, Imamu Baraka's DUTCHMAN and Sophocles' OEDIPUS THE KING and ELECTRA for the Hartford Stage Company in Connecticut, August Wilson's SEVEN GUITARS for the Seattle Repertory Theatre and Alley Theatre (Houston), and John Henry Redwood's THE OLD SETTLER and John Steinbeck's OF MICE AND MEN for the Organic Theatre Company (Chicago), and August Wilson's TWO TRAINS RUNNING for the Pegasus Theatre Company (Chicago).
Joseph Glueckert
Title: Technical Director
Office: CFSU LL 18 & LL 21
Phone: 773-508-3844
E-mail: jglueck@luc.edu
Mr. Joseph Glueckert is the Technical Director for our Mainstage and Studio productions at Loyola University Chicago. This is his fifteenth year at Loyola University Chicago as technical director. In that time he has served as Technical Director on over one hundred shows.
Mr. Glueckert's most recently designed productions were THE MEMBER OF THE WEDDING, SLEUTH, A KIND ASSYLM and A CLEAN WELL LIGHTED PLACE for the Organic Theatre and THE INTERVIEW for the Raven Theater. He has designed sets for Loyola University Chicago productions of OUR TOWN, HEAVENLY GATES HOTEL, GETTING OUT, NIGHT OF THE IGUANA, SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER and A COMEDY OF ERRORS. He has designed sets for many Chicago community theaters including for the Cactus Theatre Company, SPRING DANCE, CHINZANO, LUV, TALK TO ME LIKE THE RAIN AND LET ME LISTEN, THE ONE ARM MAN, and VALENTINES DAY; for the Common Thread Theatre's THE RAIN MAN; for Just Walking By Theater, LYSISSTRA, and DADORTHY L., WAYWARD SPIRIT, and BY THE RIVERS OF BABALYON for The Playwright's Center of Chicago. Regionally, he designed the set for the musical ANNIE at the Hope Summer Repertory Theatre.
Jacqueline Firkins
Title: Assistant Professor, Design Faculty
Office: Mundelein 1314
Phone: 773-508-3843
E-mail: jfirkin@luc.edu
Ms. Jacqueline Firkins heads our theatrical design section at Loyola University Chicago. She teaches Introduction to Design, Stage Design, Costume Design and Costume Technology. She also designs costumes and sets for some of our Mainstage Productions and she mentors the design students for the Student Studio productions.
Design work includes sets and/or costumes for the Longwharf Theatre, Portland Center Stage, Dallas Theatre Center, Hartford Stage Company, Goodman theatre, Court Theatre; Portland Stage Company, Shakespeare and Company; Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis; Idaho Shakespeare Festival; Westport Playhouse; Shakespeare Festival of Tulane; EST; Yale Repertory Theatre; New Jersey Shakespeare Festival; Brave New Repertory; AboutFace Theatre Company; Yale School of Drama; and the independent films NOW AND AGAIN and MORNING COMES. Ms. Firkins has also worked as an assistant at ACT, the Stratford Festival, Manhattan Theatre Club, the Los Angeles Opera, South Coast Repertory Theatre, Pittsburgh Opera, and the Hong Kong Arts Festival.
CONTACT US
Department of Theatre
Loyola University Chicago
Theatre Department
6525 North Sheridan Road
Chicago, IL 60626
Phone: (773) 508-3830
Fax: (773) 508-8748
E-mail: Theatre-info@luc.edu
Office Location:
Theatre Department Office
1020 W. Sheridan Rd.
Mundelein Center, Room 713
Chicago, IL 60626
Theatre Directions:
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Theatre Locations:
The Kathleen Mullady Theatre
1125 W. Loyola Ave.
Chicago, IL 60626
Studio Theatre
Basement
1125 West Loyola Avenue
Chicago, IL 60626
Box Office:
Kathleen Mullady Theatre
Loyola University Chicago
1125 West Loyola Ave
Centennial Forum
Chicago, IL 60626
Box office: 773.508.3847
Email: boxoffice@luc.edu
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