Visual & Performing Arts

Program Description

Adelphi University

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Adelphi University is a nationally acclaimed university located near New York City. Founded in 1896, it is also the oldest private coeducational institution of higher education on Long Island. With a new performing arts facility featuring state-of-the art performance, teaching, and rehearsal spaces, an excellent reputation, and proximity to New York City, Adelphi provides numerous opportunities for those majoring in dance, music, or theater arts.

Adelphi is one of the most selective private institutions on Long Island, currently enrolling more than 8,300 students from thirty-six states and forty-seven other countries in more than fifty areas of study.

Adelphi is one of Princeton Review’s “The Best Northeastern Colleges” and one of only twenty-six private schools in the country selected as a "Best Buy" by the Fiske Guide to Colleges for two years in a row.

Adelphi is committed to combining the best of conservatory and liberal arts education, offering access to rigorous training, exceptional resources, and a campus and community noted for its vitality, convenience, and safety.

Adelphi offers the following performing arts programs: dance, music, performing arts with specialization in acting, and performing arts with specialization in design technology. Students interested in a broader and more intense curricular and extracurricular program can apply for dual entry to the Honors College and to the performing arts program of their choice.

Campus and Surroundings

Located near Long Island's parks and beaches, Adelphi’s 75-acre main campus in Garden City, New York, is only 45 minutes from New York City, offering the combined advantages of a major metropolitan area and a safe, suburban campus environment. In 2006, the new Fine Arts and Facilities Building opened on the south end of the campus, providing state-of-the-art studio and exhibition space for the visual arts.

Program Facilities

In fall 2008, a new 53,500-square-foot center is scheduled to open. The center features a three-story, 500-seat auditorium with state-of-the-art acoustics, dance studios, a black-box theater, lesson and practice rooms for instruments and voice, and a digital studio.

Faculty, Resident Artists, and Alumni

Famous Adelphi alumni in the arts include Jonathan Larson, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Broadway musical Rent; Alice Hoffman, New York Times best-selling author; and hip-hop artist Chuck D of Public Enemy. Well-known faculty members include Frank Augustyn, host and cowriter of the Bravo ballet series Footnotes, and Paul Moravec, winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Music.

Application Procedures

Deadline--freshmen and transfers: continuous. Required: essay, high school transcript, college transcript(s) for transfer students, 2 letters of recommendation, SAT or ACT test scores, portfolio for technical theater majors, audition for acting applicants, minimum 2.5 high school GPA (4.0 scale). Auditions held 10 times on campus; videotaped performances are permissible as a substitute for live auditions when distance is prohibitive. Portfolio reviews held continuously on campus; the submission of slides may be substituted for portfolios when distance is prohibitive.

Undergraduate Contact

Mr. Nicholas Petron, Chair, Department of Performing Arts, Adelphi University, Post Hall, Room 4, Garden City, New York 11530; 516-877-4930, fax: 516-877-4926.