Students learn from award-winning, professionally active faculty with industry connections
Feel the exhilaration of the audience.
Hear the applause.
BW performing arts students have exceptional experiences on and off stage.
Explore performance majors at BW:
Meet Kyle
Hometown: Westchester, NY
Major: Acting BFA
Activities: Improv Club, Faces for Radio comedy troupe
"Without the passion and attention of my professors, I would not feel nearly as equipped as I do to take on the world when I leave here."
Did you know?
- Billboard has listed the BW Conservatory among the top music business schools in the country for four years running.
- BW was the first place winner in the National Opera Association's Collegiate Opera Production Competition.
- Cleveland Orchestra members teach in the BW Conservatory of Performing Arts.
- For more than two decades, BW music theatre students have had a constant presence on Broadway.
- Niche.com ranks the BW Conservatory as one of the top performing arts and top music schools in America.
At BW, performance students...
After completing their studies, BW performance students have incredible opportunities.
Graduate school destinations:
- Cleveland Institute of Music
- Indiana University
- Manhattan School of Music
- Mannes School of Music
- New England Conservatory
- Northwestern University
- Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University
- San Francisco Conservatory
- The Juilliard School
- University of Michigan
- University of Colorado, Boulder
Performance destinations:
- Conservatory alumni have lead roles on Broadway, television and film, as well as guest artist roles and esteemed positions with distinguished opera companies, orchestras, universities, school systems, and arts organizations.
- Theatre graduates work with professional companies such as Great Lakes Theater, the Idaho Shakespeare Festival, Santa Fe Opera and Yale Repertory Theatre.
- Arts management and entrepreneurship graduates Broadway's NETworks Tours & Bond Theatrical, Playhouse Square, The Cleveland Orchestra and Walt Disney World.
BW partnerships include the world-renowned Cleveland Orchestra and Playhouse Square, the largest performing arts complex outside of New York.