Student Activities

Blackfriars

Blackfriars is the theatre student honor society and an MSUM service organization.  This club coordinates social activities, banquets and field trips for students interested in theatre. Membership is open to all currently enrolled students, faculty, and staff of Minnesota State University Moorhead.

The Sketch Comedy Troupe

The Sketch Comedy Troupe is a group that was started at MSUM in the spring semester of 2007.  The troupe strives to bring comedy through satirical, topical, and sometimes purely nonsensical skits, or short films.  All of the material is written and performed by The Sketch Comedy Troupe's cast.  Special guests (i.e. professors around campus, or any big name around the Fargo/Moorhead area in general) are invited to perform with the troupe at every show, a different musical guest is also invited to each performance.  Together, the troupe's members work not only for themselves, but also to help one another to become stronger, more versatile writers/performers.  The Sketch Comedy Troupe can be seen performing on the Gaede stage in the Center for the Arts several times each year.

FM Dance Repertory Theatre

FM Dance Repertory Theatre is an organization that endeavors to increase awareness of dance within the Fargo/Moorhead community. We seek to provide a supportive and productive environment for the exploration of choreography and performance through staging productions, holding master classes, hosting social events and attending professional dance performances.

FM Dance Repertory Theatre is open to all those within the Fargo/Moorhead community who are interested in dance and committed to the purposes and activities of the organization. This organization shall be recognized as a Tri-College organization.

Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival

Started in 1969 by Roger L. Stevens, the Kennedy Center's founding chairman, the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF) is a national theater program involving 18,000 students from colleges and universities nationwide which has served as a catalyst in improving the quality of college theater in the United States. The KCACTF has grown into a network of more than 600 academic institutions throughout the country, where theater departments and student artists showcase their work and receive outside assessment by KCACTF respondents.

The goals of the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival are:

• To encourage, recognize, and celebrate the finest and most diverse work produced in university and college theater programs;
• To provide opportunities for participants to develop their theater skills and insight; and achieve professionalism;
• To improve the quality of college and university theater in America;
• To encourage colleges and universities to give distinguished productions of new plays, especially those written by students; the classics, revitalized or newly conceived; and experimental works.

Through state, regional, and national festivals, KCACTF participants celebrate the creative process, see one another's work, and share experiences and insights within the community of theater artists. The KCACTF honors excellence of overall production and offers student artists individual recognition through awards and scholarships in playwriting, acting, criticism, directing, and design.

For more information, please refer to www.kennedy-center.org/education/actf.