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Students admitted to the BFA program at Stephen F. Austin State University may apply to spend their junior or senior year abroad at major professional training institutions in partial fulfillment of their degree requirements.

Rose Bruford College is the leading professional theatre school in the university sector in England. L'Institut Del Teatre is one of Europe's leading theatre conservatories and has an international reputation operating in and from the heart of Barcelona, Spain. RESAD is Spain’s royal dramatic academy. The nation’s most prestigious center for the training of actors is an option for European Theatre Arts students prepared to receive five months of instruction in Spanish. It is located in the capital city of Madrid. The Drama School of the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, like L’Institut del Teatre, delivers instruction in English. It too is its country’s foremost theatre conservatory, and there SFA students can study the Stanislavsky system with leading teaching artists trained at the Moscow Art Theatre.

During this year of study, students will have the opportunity to study performance and staging practices of a variety of European countries through practical workshops, production projects, lectures, and seminars. Students enrolled in the program spend most or all of their fall semester at Rose Bruford in London, and most or all of their spring semester in Spain or Estonia.

Students in SFA’s Stage Management concentration have the option of spending a year in the parallel program at Rose Bruford. Those concentrating on Design and Technical Theatre may also study in London, spending a year in Rose Bruford’s Theatre Design program, which includes a “placement” (internship) at a major professional theatre company in Great Britain.

European Theatre Arts (click on photos to enlarge)
SFA students at Rose Bruford College, London 2009
ETA Students Spring 2006	ETA Student and "Bella"
ETA - Institut del Teatre Barcelona, Spain	"Bella" Puppeteering - Institut del Teatre
SFA Student: Veronica Russell ETA - Barcelona, Spain	The Rose Theatre Rose Bruford College - London
The Barn Theatre Rose Bruford College - London	Tate Modern - London, England Ubu Roi International Showcase by Aina Bauza - ETA

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