Bachelor of Fine Arts in Directing

In a conservatory setting and through an advanced curriculum that focuses on visual storytelling, skilled performance direction, and constant collaboration with artists in the other disciplines, University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) Directors build a professional skill-set that will give them a competitive advantage as they move on to careers in the real world.

Graduates of the Directing program have become writers, production managers, editors, producers, and directors. They have worked on television series such as “The Closer,” “Rizoli and Isles” and “Eastbound and Down;” animated movies like “Despicable Me” and “Kung Fu Panda;” and major studio films, including “Pineapple Express,“ Your Highness,” “Take Shelter,” “Mud,” “The Trial” and “Tropic Thunder.”

The University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) is a top-ranked creative and performing arts conservatory in Winston-Salem, N.C. Founded in 1963 as America's first public arts conservatory, UNCSA celebrates more than 50 years of training wildly creative, gifted, and hardworking young artists to do what they love, and do it brilliantly!

The University of North Carolina School of the Arts provides gifted emerging artists with the experience, knowledge, and skills needed to excel in their disciplines and lives. It serves and enriches the cultural and economic prosperity of the people of North Carolina and the nation. UNCSA is the state's unique professional school for the performing, visual, and moving image arts, training students at the high school, undergraduate, and master's levels for professional careers in the arts.