I hope I'm not re-opening anything too old here, but my search didn't really turn up much about graduate schools newer than this thread.
I have my BA in technical
theatre (my school didn't offer a BFA) and I've been in the workforce for a year now. I worked a summer
stock job ("professional") and an internship. I've seen improvement in my carpentry skills and I know a lot more about rigging now, but I can tell there's a lot of knowledge I'm missing and the places I've been working haven't offered me an opportunity to learn what I'd like to learn.
Eventually, I hope to become a Technical Director. This means I need practice in managing schedules, money management, design meetings, engineering, physics, drafting, leadership, and a lot of other things I don't even know I need to learn. I personally think graduate school is a great place to learn many of these skills.
At this
point, I've been looking at a bunch of different graduate schools: Chapel Hill, NC School of the Arts, Carnegie Mellon, Yale, FSU, Perdue, Tulane, and UNLV for a start.
Since I live in NC, I'm hesitant about the NC schools. I know that they're good and have strong reputations, but I don't know that I want all my education to be from one state. Aside from that, I'm not even sure which schools would be good for me.
SETC is starting a new program this Fall that's similar to
URTA and I plan to attend that, but then I wonder if there are schools on the west coast that I'm missing out on.
And on top of all this, when I go to look at the schools' websites I usually have problems finding their curriculum.
I know this is long and I'm kind of rambling about a bunch of issues at once but any advice is helpful.
Thanks so much!