Performing Arts Requirements

Applicants to Performing Arts majors must complete additional requirements in StageDoor. Once you've submitted the Common Application and Emerson College Supplement, you'll receive your Emerson ID giving you full access to StageDoor to complete your application requirements. Questions regarding Emerson IDs should be directed to the Office of Undergraduate Admission. The following majors require additional materials submitted through StageDoor:

• Acting, BFA
• Musical Theatre, BFA
• Stage/Production Management, BFA
• Theatre Design/Technology, BFA
• Theatre Education: Acting, BA
• Theatre Education, BA
• Theatre Studies: Acting, BA
• Theatre Studies, BA

To view the additional Performing Arts application requirements before receiving your Emerson ID, you can preview specific requirements and guidelines by Performing Arts major, audition and interview dates.

First-Year Students can only apply to Performing Arts majors for September admission.

Transfer Students can only apply to Performing Arts majors for September admission, and the department accepts transfer applications for all programs except the BFA Acting and BFA Musical Theatre. If admitted to BA in Theatre Studies: Acting or BA in Theatre Education: Acting you will be required to enroll in a 6-week, 5 days-a-week Summer Intensive Acting Training Sequence.