UT Live Design and Production is a program of foundational skills and technique development in Scenic Design, Costume Design, Costume Technology, Lighting Design and Integrated Media for Live Performance. UT Live Design and Production is a master of fine arts degree program where you can explore your talent at a university with vast academic resources in the dynamic and culturally inclusive city of Austin. We believe that training artists in design for the theatre prepares them for careers as inventors and producers of work in all aspects of live theatrical performance and the related fields of film, television, themed attractions, concerts, events and exhibits wherever the focus is on the live presence of a human story.
UT Live Design and Production offers graduate students multiple realized opportunities in a program of foundational skills and technique development in Scenic Design, Costume Design, Costume Technology, Lighting Design and Integrated Media for Live Performance. We offer work in theatre, dance, opera, film, video, performance arts and solo performance. Students have opportunities for creating work within their chosen discipline and exploring other disciplines within the program, as well as building affiliations within the university's Department of Radio-Television-Film and Department of Arts and Entertainment Technologies. Over the three-year program, students will gain organizational and entrepreneurial skills in order to prepare them to serve as a producer of future projects and endeavors.
Costume Design, part of the Live Design and Production program at The University of Texas at Austin, utilizes the psychological, emotional and sociological theories of dress and identity to visually motivate narrative. While costume has always been a privileged element of performance, the innovations of the last two decades have created a vast array of new challenges and opportunities for visual storytellers. The Costume Design program covers areas as diverse as opera, multimedia performance, interactive dance, immersive installations and live theatrical narrative.
Our design students are the storytellers and performance makers of the next generation, who use their time in graduate school to declare themselves as artists changing history.
