Study Theatre With Us

Exceptional Theatre Training Just North of Atlanta

Two Universities, One Extraordinary Partnership

Gainesville Theatre Alliance is a unique collaboration between two universities, University of North Georgia and Brenau University, offering students an expansive curriculum, access to multiple theatre spaces, and shared faculty and staff resources. Each university has a distinct culture and varied degree offerings.

Brenau Univeristy

Brenau offers a traditional residential campus with a strong musical theatre focus

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University of North Georgia

UNG offers an affordable, customizable option integrated with a strong film community

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Learning by Doing

Learn through hands-on experience while bringing your creativity to life.

Costume Shop

The GTA Costume Shop is housed on the Brenau University campus. Costume students participate in the construction of hundreds of costume pieces each year and work on wardrobe crews for GTA productions. Costume construction, fabric dyeing, draping techniques, and hair and makeup techniques are taught by our experienced costume faculty and staff. A state of the art computer lab shared with the Brenau Fashion Design Department is equipped with machines for digitizing, creating and printing patterns as well as 3-D visualization and virtual fitting of garments.

Scene Shop

Located on the UNG-Gainesville campus, our giant 3500 sq. ft. Scene Shop has a dedicated wood shop, small metal working shop, and spaces used for painting large scale scenery and fabricating a variety of stage properties. GTA technical theatre students receive hands-on experience in the shop through a number of ways: constructing major set pieces; learning about scenic painting; building hand props; and of course, as backstage run crew for our shows.

Lighting and Sound Labs

Students studying theatrical lighting and sound are supported by multiple labs located on the UNG-Gainesville campus. A miniature light lab gives students a chance to practice on scale models of sets using lights that are a third the size of the ones on stage. Our new podcast studio allows students to practice one of the most popular entertainment forms of the 21st century. Our sound and lighting system installations provide designers with equipment and software of a professional standard.

Find Yourself on One of our Unique Stages

Train, rehearse, perform, and create in distinctly different spaces

Brenau University's Hosch Theatre

Brenau University's Hosch Theatre

Opened in 2002, the Hosch Theatre is located inside the John S. Burd Center for the Performing Arts, on the Brenau University campus. Named after its donor, Mary Helen Roop Hosch, the theatre sports a proscenium stage complete with orchestra pit and seats an audience of 350.

University of North Georgia-Gainesville's Ed Cabell Theatre

University of North Georgia-Gainesville's Ed Cabell Theatre

Named after Gainesville Theatre Alliance’s first artistic director, the Ed Cabell Theatre seats 200 around a three-quarter thrust stage. This theatre is housed inside the University of North Georgia-Gainesville’s Performing Arts building.

Pearce Auditorium during the Brenau University Graduate Commencement ceremony on Friday, Dec. 14, 2018 in Gainesville, Ga. (AJ Reynolds/Brenau University)

Brenau University's Pearce Auditorium

Pearce Auditorium is a 700-seat, 19th-century opera house, located on the Brenau University campus. “The largest of its kind in the South,” the auditorium was named to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. Pearce has showcased multiple distinguished speakers and performers, including Helen Keller, Ted Shawn, Ruth St. Dennis, Martin Luther King Sr., Dan Rather, Jane Fonda, Maria Von Trapp, the Joffery II Ballet, the Vienna Boys Choir, Ramsey Lewis, Chuck Mangione, and Dave Brubeck.