Student Organizations

This group serves as a creative outlet for writers, actors, film and production students as a means to unite all Emerson College majors to produce a comedy show. The aim is to explore the many forms of comedy and thus create a varied, original and most importantly, funny show.

A student run performance art group that explores ways to combine different fields of studies offered at Emerson in an art making process, resulting in performance.

ECW’s main purpose is to explore and perform any and all comedic forms, as well as to provide experience for all students interested in the field of comedy with a special emphasis on sketch and video comedy. Membership is open to all full-time students who complete the audition process and are chosen to be actors, writers or directors.

The Emerson Dance Company is a student organization that welcomes both the accomplished and beginning dancer. The group offers opportunity and growth in the areas of performance and choreography. They also offer Master Classes by well-known choreographers and dancers which are open to the Emerson community.

A technically oriented comedy group founded in the spring of 1999, Jimmy’s Traveling All Stars seeks to promote comedy through use of both live and taped sketch performances, with a preference towards video.

Kidding Around is Emerson’s theatre group that performs and provides unique theatre experiences exclusively for children. It performs on campus and at local schools and after school programs where it creates an “interactive” theater environment with children of all ages. Emerson students are encouraged to become directors, designers, producers, actors, writers, and media persons.

This is Emerson’s only dramatic theatre troupe that explores all facets of producing, teaching and performing theatre. We open our membership doors to anyone interested in stage managing, producing, directing and teaching.

MTS provides opportunities for participating in outstanding musical production numbers on and off campus. Annually, MTS is responsible for Cabaret Players Productions and co-producing a major Spring Musical with the Performing Arts division performed at Emerson’s Majestic Theatre in Boston’s theatre district. MTS also sponsors special guest appearances by leading musical theatre personalities. MTS is open to all members of the college regardless of their field of study.

The purpose of this organization, created in the fall of 2002, is to promote creativity, education of music and diversity with regards to the A Cappella Scene at Emerson and in the Boston Community. The group provides entertainment for a variety of on and off campus events.

Recognized in the spring of 2007, RAD pledges itself, but will not limit itself, to expanding the partnerships between artists in different mediums at Emerson College. RAD aims to affect cross-genre growth in all levels of the creative process. By facilitating workshops open to all members of the student body and presenting performance showcases, RAD focuses on both artistic process and product. RAD acts as a springboard for cross-boundary artistic dialogue and growth and in doing so entertain, educate, build continuum and push the boundaries of artistic expression.

Named Organization of the Year for 2004-2005, the mission of this organization is to support theatrical productions fully produced, directed, managed, and otherwise staged solely by students of Emerson College.

The mission of this group is to provide an opportunity for Emerson students, of all majors and levels, to read, discuss, explore and perform the works of William Shakespeare, and related material through weekly discussion groups and production work; and to promote the knowledge of and interest in Shakespearean literature and theater in the greater community through educational outreach, workshops, and public performances.

This comedy and improvisation group is fully aware that it has misspelled “swollen.” The group performs original material throughout the year at scheduled showcase performances on campus and at Boston’s comedy clubs. Auditions are held each semester for students interested in comedy writing and/or performing. Membership is open to those students interested in production and advertising aspects of the organization.

Recognized in the Spring of 2005, the purpose of The Girlie Project is to promote female performers, writers and directors in the world of comedy. Membership is open to both women and men of all majors to create monologues, sketches, films, dances, and more in a non-competitive enviroment.

“This is Pathetic” theatrically explores the personal, uncomfortable, disturbed and sometimes inappropriate aspects of life. By placing these events of life in an experimental comic atmosphere, it is easier to understand just what we never want to. Open auditions are held annually.