Q&A with Retiring Technical Director Andy Mills
Retiring after 30 years at USC, Technical Director and Senior Instructor Andy Mills looks back on his career and decades of memories made at the university.
Our Mission
Our Theatre Program is committed to fostering critical thinking, creative collaboration, imagination, and adaptability, in both global and local communities. Our artistic activities and productions are part of the robust cultural life of USC, promoting humane and effective citizenship on campus and beyond.
We value and practice:
- Professional skills and standards in classrooms, labs, shops and productions
- Imaginative work grounded in rigorous research and analysis
- Experiential learning
- Curiosity, Innovation and interdisciplinarity
- Responsibility, empathy and compassion for others
Study
Pursue an array of performance, design and direction undergraduate and graduate degrees.
Whatever your field of specialization, know you'll experience an exciting path of
both classroom and production-based learning that will launch your theatre career
in the direction you choose.
Audition
Audition for one of our upcoming productions. Any University of South Carolina student
is invited to audition for a show, regardless of your major, and non-student roles
also may be available for some productions as well.
Perform
Experience the drama and excitement of live theatre through the university's annual
season of performances. Enjoy expansive classical productions as well as intimate
experimental theatre from venues ranging from historic Longstreet Theatre to the Lab
Theatre, our black box space.
Buy Tickets or Subscription Packages
Tickets for most productions and season subscription packages are available online!
Recent News
Twelfth Night | April 11-18, 2025
Guest artist Carolyn Howarth directs Shakespeare's madcap tale of mistaken identity and unrequited love at Drayton Hall Theatre.
Activity Placemats | February 27 - March 2, 2025
The Lab Theatre will host the SC premiere of Kirk McGee's raucous comedy of a wedding gone wrong and the wedding party who hilariously try to fix it..and themselves.