Master’s degree · Initial professional preparation
MFA in Acting
Department of Theatre, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · Urbana, Illinois, United States
- Award
- MFA in Acting
- Audience & level
- Adults
- Format
- In personThree years
- Price
- Not published
About this program
Three-year professional actor training program with daily four-hour studio sessions in acting, movement and voice and speech; cohorts are admitted only periodically.
- Offering
- Degree program
- Fields
- Theatre acting, Voice & speech, Movement
- Purpose
- Initial professional preparation
- Teaching language
- English
Qualification and recognition
- Qualification
- Master’s degree
- Exact award
- MFA in Acting
- Award status
- Academic awardAwarded by a degree-granting institution.
- Awarding body
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Structure and schedule
- Duration
- Three years
- Delivery
- In personTaught at the listed teaching location.
- Physical attendance
- Regular physical attendance
- Schedule
- Not published
- Course dates
- Admissions for the next MFA in Acting class will begin in Fall 2028, with a Fall 2029 start date.
- Teaching location
- Krannert Center for the Performing Arts500 S Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
Admissions and auditions
Audition required
- Monologues
- Two contrasting monologues (one classical, one contemporary), each no longer than two minutes
- In-person audition
- Yes
- Audition detail
- Audition through U/RTA or on-campus audition day
- Intakes
- Next MFA in Acting class admitted for a Fall 2029 start
- Deadlines
- Application Deadline: February 14, 2026 (for the 2026-2027 academic year) · this date has passed; check the current cycle
Fees
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Funding
Tuition-free program Tuition waiver
Basis not stated
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)