List of Yale University Student Organizations - Theatrical Organizations

Theatrical Organizations

• The Yale Drama Coalition promotes the theater community and improves communication between the 100-plus student-directed and -produced plays each semester. These plays are generally funded by the Sudler Funds of each residential college, which award up to $1,400 to mount art shows and theatrical productions by members of that college.
• The Yale Dramatic Association, founded in 1900, is the second-oldest college theatre company in the country; "The Dramat" has featured the work of such noted Yale graduates as Cole Porter, Thornton Wilder, and Stephen Vincent Benet. It typically produces seven productions a year, including two full-scale musicals in the University Theater. Smaller-scale productions are mounted on the stage of the Yale Repertory Theatre and the School Of Drama's black box theatre. Former Dramat members include Sam Waterston, Austin Pendleton, George Roy Hill, John Badham, and Cheryl Henson.
• The Control Group. Founded in 2000, Yale's experimental theatre company puts on two to four productions a year, primarily in unconventional theater spaces.
• Heritage Theatre Ensemble, founded in 1979 (HTE), and reformed in 2011 supports Black theater on campus and elsewhere in New Haven.
• The Yale College Theatrical Combat Association, founded in 2010, organizes workshops and provides opportunities for student choreographers and actors.
• Sacer Ludus, a small dramatic group formed in 2009.
• Teatro de Yale supports Latino/Latin-American theatre on campus and elsewhere in New Haven.
• The Yale Gilbert and Sullivan Society produces two operettas per year.
• The Yale Undergraduate Musical Theater Company, YUMTC, produces musical theater.
• The Yale College Original Shakespeare Company, founded in 2010, produces two productions a year: one cue-script show in keeping with original Elizabethan rehearsal practices and one fully staged production.