Each year, the student-run theatre company, operated by the UIndy student managers, puts on its own show staged in a professional setting. For the past few years, this has been a staged play put on at the Indy Fringe Theatre Festival, run entirely by the students. This is an excellent opportunity to build connections with artists in the local theatre community.

Each February, UIndy Theatre hosts an Artists’ Showcase, highlighting scenes from acting and directing classes, monologues, songs, dances, stand-up routines. Designed as a showcase, this event is open to any student in the University and gives opportunities for all students to show off their talent and for students to put on and run a show right out of the Studio Theatre.

Students are encouraged to be a part of our productions their very first semester. Students can act, design, direct, be a member of the crew, or fun front-of-house operations for all of our shows, providing invaluable experience that can go on their theatrical resumes. By taking an active role in all four productions per year, students will be exposed to a variety of genres and theatre jobs. Faculty and staff, as well as professionals from the Indy theatre community will provide mentorship and guidance as students grow into theatre artists. It’s this type of mentoring that makes a theatre focus at UIndy so invaluable. In your time at UIndy, you will be able to be involved in almost all of the jobs within the theatre world. As your skills and knowledge increase, you will be given more and more responsibilities of supervising your peers and seeing your own ideas realized in our productions.

For more info about our current season, visit the Theatre events page.

For more information about past productions, visit the UIndy Theatre Archives, where we have carefully maintained records for the over 130 productions UIndy Theatre has put on since 1967.

All UIndy Theatre students are part of the UIndy Theatre Student Collective (UTSC), which is run entirely by the students. As a recognized student organization on campus, UTSC receives University funding to run its own events and mixers. For new students to Theatre, UTSC can be an invaluable experience in finding your way through the theatre program and UIndy. Mentorship is a big feature of this organization.

The UIndy Theatre Student Collective (UTSC) hosts its own events designed to be social engagements for the students of theatre. Some of the events done in the past have been:

• Movie nights
• Holiday party
• End-of-the-year event
• Participating in UIndy Pride's Drag Show
• Hosting an annual Rocky Horror Picture Show Shadowcast in Ransburg Auditorium
• Professional production in the Indianapolis theatre community