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.
Scenic Design, part of the Live Design and Production program at The University of Texas at Austin, includes a mastery of both traditional and modern techniques as applicable to all forms of narrative design. Strong emphasis is placed upon script analysis and the interpretation of story and character. Drawing, rendering, drafting and model-building, both in conventional and digital media, are central components of the program.
The Scene Design program aims to develop students' artistry while providing a foundational knowledge of skills and technological tools to serve tomorrow's storytellers in the theatre as well as a variety of other creative endeavors including opera, film, television, art installations, exhibit design, theme parks and retail space.
