About

Welcome to the Department of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies at Tufts!

We educate and challenge scholar-artists to actively participate in their communities, to pose challenging questions, and to re-imagine the role of the arts in contemporary culture. 

We are a close-knit department: students know each other well and find tireless mentors in their faculty and staff. We are also a place of welcome: we are deeply committed to sustaining a diverse and inclusive community. We believe that the arts offer us a unique opportunity to expand our understanding of what it means to pay attention, to collaborate, and to tell the stories that have not been heard. 

Our undergraduate programs are rooted in a strong liberal arts approach to the intellectual, historical, and aesthetic dimensions of performance. We offer an undergraduate major in Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, a minor in Theatre and Performance Studies, and a minor in Dance. We are also home to a thriving PhD program in Theatre and Performance Studies.

Our busy production season provides numerous opportunities for undergraduate and graduate student participation. We stage multiple faculty-directed productions each year, including at least two plays and two dance concerts. The Department supports multiple student thesis and capstone projects each year and hosts a festive twice-annual "Dance Mash-Up." 

Please take a moment to get to know more about us! I encourage you to reach out to us directly by emailing us, signing up for our weekly newsletter, and following us on Instagram. We look forward to getting to know you.