Overview
Pacific Conservatory Theatre (PCPA) is a presenting and training professional residential theatre company in Santa Maria, California, offering a two-year acting and technical theatre conservatory program, operating out of Allan Hancock College.
Degree
Onstage and offstage, PCPA’s Conservatory provides specialized training for its students. The two-year vocational certificate program combines lectures, labs, and classes with the practical hands-on training which students learn when mounting a fully realized production. Conservatory students are mentored by practicing professionals in the classroom.
For actors, the comprehensive curriculum offers no elective subjects. It is a full-time, six-days-a-week commitment. Classes include Acting, Voice, Movement, Musical Theatre Ensemble, Shakespeare, Theatre History, Stage Combat and more. The technical theatre students examine all aspects of production enabling them to develop as designers, craftspeople and technicians. Their areas of study include Stagecraft, Lighting, Sound, Drawing and Rendering, Costuming and Scene Painting.
Alumni
Over the years, PCPA’s conservatory alumni have gone on to become distinguished theatrical professionals. Former members of the school include:
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