Your background might not be a hindrance in a theatre program, particularly not one with a design focus (or those that combine both design and production). Ours is exclusively production focus, and in general our incoming grads do have theatre backgrounds, but not necessarily, and many of them don't have undergraduate theatre degrees. Maybe that's something to add to your list of questions to ask the program directors when you contact them for more info about their courses of study--in what different disciplines did their grad students get their bachelors degrees?
I know what you mean with reference to "drama drama," though IME it does vary from place to place, depending on the company/shop/department/university. When you get to the point where you are visiting programs, you'll hopefully be able to sort of "take the temperature" of a school and its department, especially when you are there talking to current students and professors and staff face-to-face.
Also, i apologize in advance if it's old news or irrelevant info, but i've written a series of posts aimed at folks who are considering graduate programs--all from the perspective of the costuming field--which might be helpful to skim through:
Preparing for a Costume Production MFA (http://labricoleuse.livejournal.com/12168.html) Costume MFA Programs: Design vs. Production foci (http://labricoleuse.livejournal.com/12679.html) Advice on Getting Into an MFA Program (http://labricoleuse.livejournal.com/18702.html) Assembling a Portfolio (http://labricoleuse.livejournal.com/15070.html) Presenting Your Portfolio (http://labricoleuse.livejournal.com/41087.html)
...it's perhaps not so much useful with respect to fashion programs (i have no experience in that field), but might help you with your research into graduate options, anyhow. :D
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Date: 2008-04-15 06:22 pm (UTC)I know what you mean with reference to "drama drama," though IME it does vary from place to place, depending on the company/shop/department/university. When you get to the point where you are visiting programs, you'll hopefully be able to sort of "take the temperature" of a school and its department, especially when you are there talking to current students and professors and staff face-to-face.
Also, i apologize in advance if it's old news or irrelevant info, but i've written a series of posts aimed at folks who are considering graduate programs--all from the perspective of the costuming field--which might be helpful to skim through:
Preparing for a Costume Production MFA (http://labricoleuse.livejournal.com/12168.html)
Costume MFA Programs: Design vs. Production foci (http://labricoleuse.livejournal.com/12679.html)
Advice on Getting Into an MFA Program (http://labricoleuse.livejournal.com/18702.html)
Assembling a Portfolio (http://labricoleuse.livejournal.com/15070.html)
Presenting Your Portfolio (http://labricoleuse.livejournal.com/41087.html)
...it's perhaps not so much useful with respect to fashion programs (i have no experience in that field), but might help you with your research into graduate options, anyhow. :D