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The graduate department at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television launched its recalibrated acting curriculum under the leadership of a new head of acting. The program focuses on ensemble building and training students for the contemporary world.

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Graduate acting program&#8217;s new head sets stage for recalibration of curriculum

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It’s been two years since UCLA’s graduate department at the School of Theater, Film and Television accepted any actors into its program. In the wake of Tony Award-winning Professor Mel Shapiro’s retirement as the head of UCLA’s graduate acting program, Michael Hackett, chairman of the Department of Theater, and other faculty members of the graduate theater department spent two years in search of a new head of acting to recalibrate the program.

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Graduate acting program’s new head sets stage for recalibration of curriculum

By Ella Pravetz

Oct. 17, 2013 12:28 a.m.