Bachelor’s degree · Initial professional preparation
Acting & Original Works, BFA
Cornish College of the Arts (Seattle University) · South Lake Union, Seattle, Washington, United States
- Award
- Bachelor of Fine Arts
- Audience & level
- Adults (not specified)
- Format
- In person4 years
- Price
- Not published
About this program
A four-year, 120-credit BFA combining acting, voice and movement technique with devising and dramatic writing and the creation of original works. Students planning to start in Fall 2027 are pointed to a new Theatre BFA specialization.
- Offering
- Degree program
- Fields
- Theatre acting, Voice & speech, Movement
- Purpose
- Initial professional preparation
- Teaching language
- English
Qualification and recognition
- Qualification
- Bachelor’s degree
- Exact award
- Bachelor of Fine Arts
- Award status
- Academic awardAwarded by a degree-granting institution.
- Awarding body
- Seattle University (Cornish College of the Arts)
Structure and schedule
- Duration
- 4 years
- Delivery
- In personTaught at the listed teaching location.
- Physical attendance
- Regular physical attendance
- Schedule
- Not published
- Class size
- class sizes averaging only 15 students
- Credits
- 120 semester creditsCredit systems differ between countries and institutions.
- Teaching location
- Cornish campus, South Lake Union
Admissions and auditions
Audition required
- Monologues
- Two contrasting contemporary monologues; first preferably a prescribed piece (Fool for Love or Death of a Salesman)
- Self-tape
- Yes
- In-person audition
- Yes
- Audition detail
- Audition live in person (on campus or National Unifieds), live via Zoom, or by recorded audition uploaded to the admission portal. Published dates are for the 2025-26 cycle; the 2026-27 dates were not on the page.
- Interview
- Each student will have a short interview with our faculty to discuss their career goals and educational priorities.
- Deadlines
- Regular Decision applications are due by January 15, 2026. · this date has passed; check the current cycle
- Official instructions
- Application and audition instructions
Fees
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Sources and verification
Not published on the program’s source pages: price, schedule, experience level.
Sources and how this was checked
Last checked 16 October 2026. Each fact carries a verbatim quote that is re-checked against the live page. Research methodology.
Sources (checked 16 October 2026)