Training Artists for Over 55 Years
Webster University’s Sargent Conservatory of Theatre Arts offers professional training programs in acting, musical theatre, directing, design, technical theatre and stage management.
Sargent Conservatory is associated with professional theatre companies, two of which are on campus: The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis and Opera Theatre of Saint Louis. Explore below to learn more about our sequential and intensive programs for training theatre artists.
Meet our 2023-2024 seniors, whose work for Senior Showcase highlights the array of experiences and artistic work integral to our training.
Undergraduate Majors and Minors
- Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting
- Bachelor of Fine Arts in Costume Construction
- Bachelor of Fine Arts in Costume Design
- Bachelor of Arts in Directing
- Bachelor of Fine Arts in Lighting Design
- Bachelor of Fine Arts in Musical Theatre
- Bachelor of Fine Arts in Scene Design
- Bachelor of Fine Arts in Scene Painting
- Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sound Design
- Bachelor of Fine Arts in Stage Management
- Bachelor of Fine Arts in Technical Direction
- Bachelor of Fine Arts in Wig and Makeup Design
Theatre Minor Advisor — Doug Finlayson, finlaydo@webster.edu
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| The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui | Sept. 19–25 |
| Our Town | Nov. 8–10 |
| Ride the Cyclone | Dec. 4–8 |
| The Legend of Georgia McBride | Feb. 28–March 2 |
| Our Dear Dead Drug Lord | March 29–31 |
| Cinderella | May 2–4 |
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
By Bertolt Brecht
Translated by George Tabori
Stage III
Sept. 19–25, 2024
The Cauliflower Trust in Chicago is in need of help and turns to a racketeer by the name of Arturo Ui to begin a “protection” campaign. Through his unique approach to theatre, Brecht uses this simple story to inspire critical thinking about and a reconsideration of Hitler’s rise to power. The questions are intense, but the work remains boldly theatrical and entertaining.
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Our Town
By Thornton Wilder
Browning Mainstage Theatre
Nov. 8–10, 2024
Described by Edward Albee as “the greatest American play ever written,” Our Town presents the small town of Grover’s Corners in three acts: “Daily Life,” “Love and Marriage” and “Death and Eternity.” Thornton Wilder beautifully takes us from the everyday to the cosmic, asking us to consider our very humanity.
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Ride the Cyclone
Book, music and lyrics by Jacob Richmond and Brooke Maxwell
Emerson Studio Theatre
Dec. 4–8, 2024
In this hilarious and outlandish story, the lives of six teenagers from a Canadian chamber choir are cut short in a freak accident aboard a roller coaster. When they awake in limbo, a mechanical fortuneteller invites each to tell a story to win a prize like no other — the chance to return to life.
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The Legend of Georgia McBride
By Matthew López
Emerson Studio Theatre
Feb. 28–March 1, 2025
He’s young, he’s broke, his landlord’s knocking at the door, and he’s just found out his wife is going to have a baby. To make matters even more desperate, Casey is fired from his gig as an Elvis impersonator in a run-down, small-town Florida bar. When the bar owner brings in a B-level drag show to replace his act, Casey finds that he has a whole lot to learn about show business — and himself.
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Our Dear Dead Drug Lord
By Alexis Scheer
Stage III
March 28–30, 2025
A gang of teenage girls gathers in an abandoned treehouse to summon the ghost of Pablo Escobar. Are they messing with the actual spirit of the infamous cartel kingpin? Or are they really just messing with each other? A roller coaster ride through the danger and damage of girlhood — the teenage wasteland — has never been so much twisted fun.
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Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella
Music by Richard Rodgers
Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
New Book by Douglas Carter Beane
Original Book by Oscar Hammerstein II
Browning Mainstage Theatre
May 2–4, 2025
Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella is the new Broadway adaptation of the classic musical. This contemporary take on the classic tale features Rodgers & Hammerstein’s most beloved songs, including “In My Own Little Corner,” “Impossible/It's Possible” and “Ten Minutes Ago,” alongside an up-to-date, hilarious and romantic libretto by Tony Award nominee Douglas Carter Beane.
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Explore Photos of Our Previous Productions
Full Season Archive
- American Idiot
- Sueño
- Seminar
- A Bright Room Called Day (capstone)
- Rain and Zoe Save the World (capstone)
- Mud (capstone)
- Myths & Hymns
- Ismene
- Twelfth Night
- Bomb-itty of Errors
- Picnic
- Machinal (capstone)
- Miss You Like Hell (capstone)
- Bright Star
- The Fantasticks
- Fahrenheit 451
- The Three Sisters
- By the Way... Meet Vera Stark
- The Little Prince
- Photograph 51 (capstone)
- Love's Labour's Lost
2017-2018 Season Photos:
- [title of show]
- As You Like It
- Lysistrata
- Men on Boats
- She Kills Monsters (capstone)
- Fly by Night (capstone)
- Brigadoon
2016-2017 Season Photos:
- Slasher
- Macbeth
- The Glorious Ones
- The Philadelphia Story
- Next Fall (capstone)
- Rhinoceros (capstone)
- The Drowsy Chaperone
2015-2016 Season Photos:
- Dogfight
- Stage Door
- Shotgun
- The Miser
- Mr Burns, a Post-Electric Play (capstone)
- The Cockfight Play (capstone)
- The Pajama Game
2014-2015 Season Photos:
- Stop Kiss
- Spring Awakening
- Hay Fever
- Big Love
- Honk! (capstone)
- The Last Five Years (capstone)
- The Tempest
2013-2014 Season Photos:
- Alice in Wonderland
- The Country Wife
- Smokey Joe's Cafe - The Music of Leiber and Stoller
- The House of the Spirits
- Reckless (capstone)
- A Reconsolidated Life
- Into the Woods
2012-2013 Season Photos:
- The Children's Hour
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Yours, Anne
- Uncommon Women and Others
- Eurydice (capstone)
- The Pig Iron People (capstone)
- Legally Blonde: The Musical
2011-2012 Season Photos:
- Top Girls
- Carousel
- Hot L Baltimore
- Hello Again
- Edgar Allan Poe's Nevermore (capstone)
- 100 Saints You Should Know (capstone)
- Dinner With Friends (capstone)
- Lady Windermere's Fan
2010-2011 Season Photos:
- Fit For Feet
- The Insect Play
- The Three Penny Opera
- The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
- Almost Maine
- The Wonderful World of Dissocia (capstone)
- A Year With Frog and Toad (capstone)
- The Receptionist (capstone)
- Government Inspector
2009-2010 Season Photos:
- The Proposal
- Company
- The Winter's Tale
- Cloud Nine
- On The Razzle
- The House of Blue Leaves
- The Wedding Singer
2008-2009 Season Photos:
- On the Edge
- Our Town
- Stepping Out
- Picasso at the Lapin Agile
- Dancing at Lughnasa (capstone)
- Betrayal (capstone)
- Cabaret
2007-2008 Season Photos:
- Tied to a Stick
- Anton in Show Business
- Tartuffe
- The Cripple of Inishmaan
- Angels in American: Millennium Approaches
- The Spitfire Grill
- Oklahoma
2006-2007 Season Photos:
- The Siren Song of Stephen J. Gould
- A Month in the Country
- The Comedy of Errors
- The Night of the Iguana
- Bat Boy
- Private Eyes (capstone)
- You're a Good Man Charlie Brown (capstone)
- No, No Nanette
2005-2006 Season Photos:
- The Spirit is Willing
- Our Country's Good
- Bye Bye Birdie
- The Memory of Water
- A New Brain
- String of Pearls
- The Man Who Came To Dinner
2004-2005 Season Photos:
- Red Ink
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
- The Lucky Chance
- Ruthless! The Musical
- A Piece of My Heart
- Blythe Spirit
- Frankie and Johnny at the Claire de Lune (capstone)
- Scotland Road (capstone)
- Into the Woods
2003-2004 Season Photos:
- Twenty and Two
- Summer and Smoke
- Rodgers and Hart: A Celebration
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Lysistrata
- Loot
- Woyzeck (capstone)
- Nine
2002-2003 Season Photos:
Full Season Archive
- The Importance of Being Earnest
- An Evening of One Acts 2002
- Pippin
- Violet
- The Laramie Project
- On the Verge
- As Bees in Honey Drown (capstone)
- Two Rockin' Gents
2001-2002 Season Photos:
Full Season Archive
- Ten Little Indians
- 42nd Street
- 5th of July
- Blood Wedding
- Lucky Stiff
- Heartbreak House
- The Shape of Things (capstone)
2000-2001 Season Photos:
Full Season Archive
- Female Transport
- Company
- As You Like It
- Hedda Gabler
- You're a Good Man Charlie Brown
- The Women
1999-2000 Season Photos:
Full Season Archive
- Collette Collage
- Caucasian Chalk Circle
- Picnic
- School for Scandal
- And Evening of One Acts 2000
- Guys and Dolls
1998-1999 Season Photos:
Full Season Archive
- Gemini
- Grand Hotel
- The Philadelphia Story
- The Cherry Orchard
- Cole
- Macbeth
Apply to Webster's Sargent Conservatory of Theatre Arts
All future Webster Conservatory students follow a three-step process (Note: The Conservatory does not require a video or prescreening).
1: Apply to Webster
Application may be made through our website at webster.edu/apply, or you may apply through Common App or COALITION App.
After applying, you will receive an email with a form link.
2: Submit Form and Fee
Use link in the email to submit the Fine and Performing Arts Student Assessment Request Form and $30 fee for the Conservatory. You will be contacted with next step information to schedule a date and time for your review or interview.
3: Schedule Audition/Interview
To schedule your audition or interview at Webster, please go to Webster's Conservatory Auditions.
(Note: Acceptd does not take the place of a Conservatory audition or interview.)
If you have any questions regarding the Conservatory or the audition or review process, please contact auditions@webster.edu.
Use of Acceptd is not required to be admitted to the program and does not take the place of a Conservatory audition or interview.
The Sargent Conservatory of Theatre Arts is working in association with the online digital audition/portfolio company Acceptd. The use of Acceptd allows students to submit perusal materials to Webster and other programs. Although we view all postings to the Acceptd site, students interested in the Conservatory must schedule an official Webster audition or interview for the program to which they are applying. Acceptd does not take the place of a Conservatory audition or interview.
To schedule your audition or interview at Webster, please go to Webster's Conservatory Auditions page.
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Hannah Browning
BFA in Musical Theatre, ’24
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