Get Involved
The Show Must Go On
Play your part in the production!
Whether you're Broadway bound or just looking for a new experience—all are welcomed to join our troupe. From Mainstage productions to volunteer opportunities to student organizations, you can connect with like-minded individuals and collaborate on exciting projects.
Join the Club
Our student organizations provide community and cultivate creative expression. Alternate Theatre, our program club, provides more opportunities like full-length and one-act play productions, poetry readings, field trips, play readings, guest artists and master classes. Alternate Theatre also sponsors our Spring “Coarse Awards”, a year-end celebration for everyone who has participated in University Theatre activities. Membership to Alternate Theatre is open, everyone is welcome.
American College Theatre Festival (ACTF)
The Kennedy Center/ American College Theatre Festival is a national organization dedicated to promoting excellence in theatre. ACTF has divided the country into 8 regions (we are a part of Region 3 which includes Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin). Every year, each region holds a festival for its member states. The Region 3 festival is always in January. In 1994 and 1995 the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay hosted the Region 3 Festivals! The festival is a 5-day event drawing over 1000 theatre students, educators and guest artists from around the country. Events include workshops, performances of 1 act and full-length plays and competitions in acting, design, playwriting and theatre criticism. At least 6 productions are chosen from around the region to perform at the regional festival.
In the Spring, a National Festival is held at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. Productions selected from the regional festivals are invited to perform at the National Festival. The finals of the Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship Competition are held at this time and winners in the design, playwriting and critics competitions are honored and their work displayed.
On a local level, ACTF is an important part of our program. Selected Mainstage productions are viewed by an ACTF adjudicator who gives oral feedback to the company after viewing a performance. Mainstage productions entered as Participating entries will be considered by a Regional Committee for selection for attendance at the Regional Festival.
Each year, a group of students and faculty attend the Regional Festival. Students are encouraged to enter their work in one of the festival's many competitions. The festival offers us the chance to meet colleagues, participate in workshops and to see the work of university theatre programs in our region. It is an exciting and enriching experience and one that we encourage all theatre students to participate in at least once.
Volunteer
in Your Community
Live theatre is alive and well throughout Northeast Wisconsin. Here are just a few:
- Theatre on the Bay- contact Teri Halvorsen at zueget@uwgb.edu.
- Green Bay Community Theater- contact Kit Honkanen at boxoffice@gbcommunitytheater.com.
- Evergreen Theater- contact Ruth Novak at ruth@evergreenproductions.org.
- Abrams Spotlight Productions-volunteers.aspi@gmail.com.
Experiences for All
"The best part about this program is the amount of variety in experiences and opportunities that you can get out of it. If you’re aspiring to be a director or playwright, there are opportunities to direct and develop your own production. If you’re interested in building sets and working on lighting and sound, there are opportunities to work on those skills. And if you’re interested in becoming a performer, there is a tremendous amount of opportunities to perform as well. Or if you’re interested in all of these areas, this program makes it possible for you to be a part of them all year round."
Alexandra Smith '24
Majoring in Theatre Performance and Minoring in Education
Let's Connect
Find out more ways to get involved on campus and in our community by getting in touch with professors like Thomas Campbell, our program chair.