Students
SOTA tries to allow students to foster responsibility. To this goal, many SOTA projects are student-run, including some aspects of the school's administration.
| SOTA Theatre | |
|---|---|
| Address | 1118 Commerce Street |
| City | Tacoma |
| Country | USA |
| Coordinates | 47°14′42″N 122°26′35″W / 47.2449°N 122.4430°W / 47.2449; -122.4430Coordinates: 47°14′42″N 122°26′35″W / 47.2449°N 122.4430°W / 47.2449; -122.4430 |
| Architect | McGranahan Architects |
| Owned by | Tacoma School of the Arts |
| Capacity | 450 |
| Type | Urban |
| Opened | 2001 |
Many Performing Arts projects are left up to students. Students have directed theatrical productions including The Glass Menagerie (dir. Kathryn Robinson, 2007) and The Last of the Darling Brent Girls, the latter also written by a student (dir. Kaylie Rainer, written by Roland C. Carette-Meyers, 2007). All productions, most directed by teachers, star only SOTA students—exceptions are rare, such as The Trojan Women casting a very young non-student in the silent role of the toddler Astyanax (performed in autumn 2007).
While students are expected to take a wide variety of classes, they are also expected to specialize in one department, or "major". Departments offered include those of the Visual Arts (photography, sculpture, graphic design, film, drawing, and painting) and those of the Performing Arts (songwriting and audio recording, instrumental music conservatory, vocal music, dance, and technical theater). Some students may announce a "renaissance" major where they take classes from all the disciplines. There is an Actor's Studio class at SOTA taught by an adjunct artist, and students perform in all of these theatrical productions as well as many of the film productions.
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