Design and Technology
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Theatre
Students in the Design & Technology program build a foundation in their craft in a structured and intensive curriculum focused on career preparation and learning industry standards. Practical experience is gained by working behind the scenes on productions. Students are also involved in every step of the process from designing concepts through realizing those designs, creating everything that goes into making a production spectacular.
Students work alongside faculty in their first two years and take on technical leadership roles in their upper years. By graduation, students will leave with a resume of practical production experience and production knowledge suited for careers in theatre and touring productions, themed entertainment and more.
Areas of study:
- Lighting
- Costumes
- Scenery
- Effects
- Props
- Sound
- Projections
- Makeup
- Painting
- Woodworking
- Metalsmithing
- Technical direction
- Design and Technology
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Orlando Sentinel: Theatre UCF goes simple for ‘Songs of Inspiration’ | Review
February 05, 2021 Theatre UCF returned to live performance this week — in a different-than-usual place with a different sort of show. “Although masked, Tori Micaletti conveys optimism with eyes and eyebrows on the peppy ‘Orange Colored Sky.’ Alexa Comeau shares the excitement of a young woman who has just met her Mr....

Theatre UCF returns to the stage this spring
January 14, 2021 This spring, Theatre UCF is back on stage for three outdoor performances including a hopeful musical concert, a colorful commedia dell’arte play and a family-friendly show about wanting to be anything but average.

Spotlight: Brenna Maginness ’20BFA
August 18, 2020 Brenna Maginness ’20, theatre design and technology alumna and BHC Scholar, served as a costume designer for UCF theatre productions during her time at UCF, and wrote an Honors Undergraduate Thesis on lesbian representation in theatre. She will be attending the University of the Arts in London to earn a...
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Alumni Highlights
Ryan Bosshardt ’11
Entertainment Technician in Lighting, Walt Disney World, Orlando, FL
Peter Malbuisson ’01
BFA, Theatre | IATSE Local One and Local 74 Stagehand, Broadway (The Normal Heart, Jersey Boys, The King and I, Bullets Over Broadway, Honeymoon in Vegas, Harvey, Mystery of Edwin Drood, Oslo, Junk and more
Bryan Kaschube ’07
Resident Lighting Designer, Jerry Herman Ring Theatre, Miami, FL; Lecturer, University of Miami
Dan Dansby ’10
Lighting Designer, SeaWorld, Orlando, FL
Matthew Ardoin ’14
Lighting and Sound Assistant, Two River Theater, NJ
Tyler “GT” Cecchini ’13
Wardrobe Attendant, Cirque Du Soleil’s “O”
Lauren Cushman ’06
Assistant Technical Director, Resident Prop Master and Projection Specialist at Rollins College, Winter Park, FL
Anthony Narciso ’14
Resident Sound Designer, Orlando REP, Orlando, FL; Festival Sound Designer, Texas Shakespeare Festival
Morgan Burhoe ’16
Over-hire Carpenter, Orlando REP, Orlando, FL