Bachelor’s degree · Academic study
Acting BFA
SUNY Purchase College - Conservatory of Theatre Arts · Purchase, New York, United States
- Award
- BFA in Acting
- Audience & level
- Adults
- Format
- In personfour-year sequential program
- Price
- Not published
About this program
Four-year sequential conservatory-style BFA in which each cohort works as a company to develop body, voice and personality as an actor's instrument.
- Offering
- Degree program
- Fields
- Theatre acting, Voice & speech, Movement, Actor training
- Purpose
- Academic study
- Teaching language
- English
Qualification and recognition
- Qualification
- Bachelor’s degree
- Exact award
- BFA in Acting
- Award status
- Academic awardAwarded by a degree-granting institution.
- Awarding body
- SUNY Purchase College
Structure and schedule
- Duration
- four-year sequential program
- Delivery
- In personTaught at the listed teaching location.
- Physical attendance
- Regular physical attendance
- Schedule
- Full-timeFour-year sequential program.
- Teaching location
- SUNY Purchase campus (Performing Arts Center and CMFT)
Admissions and auditions
Audition required
- Monologues
- Two video monologues: one contemporary (written in the last 100 years) and one classical, each roughly 90 seconds to two minutes, from published plays
- Self-tape
- Yes
- Callback
- Yes
- Audition detail
- Selected applicants are invited to an in-person callback of about 15 minutes, on or off campus.
- Prior education
- Academic transcripts
- References
- Letter of recommendation
- Intakes
- Fall
- Deadlines
- Early Action and Spring: December 23, 2026
- Portfolio Submission: January 1, 2027
- Official instructions
- Application and audition instructions
Fees
Original currency is authoritative. Each price keeps its basis (per class, per term, per year, whole program) and is never converted or added up for you.
Sources and verification
Not published on the program’s source pages: price, 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)