Get hands-on training while earning your degree from professionals who know the industry. At Dobbins Conservatory, you’ll turn your passion into a profession.

Shows and Performances

Each year, Dobbins Conservatory presents a multitude of public performances exposing students to a variety of exceptional repertories in theatre, dance, film, and television. Annual main stage, signature, and workshop series productions include musicals, plays, dance, cabarets, improv comedy shows, concerts, staged readings, student films, one-acts, jukebox productions, and showcases that develop and sharpen professional skills in the entertainment industry to help students build a foundation for success in their careers.

BFA Showcase and Industry Job Fairs

The BFA Showcase is the pinnacle event for graduating seniors completing a Bachelor of Fine Arts to launch their careers in the entertainment industry. Design and Technology majors are showcased through main-stage production assignments and financially supported in their participation in post-graduate job fairs at places like the United States Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT) and the Southeastern Theatre Conference (SETC).

For Acting and Musical Theatre majors, the showcase offers a series of master classes about the industry, working with senior leadership from The CRY HAVOC Company, while preparing students to perform in front of a variety of agents and casting directors in New York City.
CRY HAVOC is a not-for-profit, new play development company. Since its founding in 1997, the company has developed hundreds of new plays, screenplays, and musicals through its workshop program. In that time, CRY HAVOC has also produced world premieres of more than a dozen new plays. Projects developed with them have been published, made into award-winning films, and produced in major venues in New York, across the United States, and all over the world.

Guest Artist Master Classes and Residencies

Throughout the year, experienced professionals are invited to campus to lead workshops and master classes for students. These experiences allow students to receive expert advice and critiques while networking with nationally and internationally recognized guest artists. Master classes occur regularly throughout the year, including summer. Dobbins Conservatory hosts more than a dozen guest artists each year, including such luminaries as Molly Smith, artistic director of the Tony Award-winning Arena Stage; Adam Szymkowicz, playwright and literary manager of the Julliard School; Lonny Price; Emmy-winning and Tony-nominated director, actor, and librettist; Robert Barry Fleming, executive artistic director of the Tony-winning Actors’ Theatre of Louisville; Mika Eubanks, costume designer; Garrett Anderson, Concord Theatricals; David Lansky, American Ballet Theatre; Alex Brightman, Tony-nominated actor; Kevin McCurdy, combat director, Royal Shakespeare Company; Rick Dildine, artistic director, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Bill Black, costume designer, Utah Shakespeare Festival; Jennifer Archibald, choreographer; Noah Racey, Broadway choreographer and actor; E.M. Lewis, playwright; Jenn Colella, Drama Desk-winning and Tony-nominated actor; Hana S. Sharif, artistic director, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis; and many more.