The Department of Theatre, Film, and Media Arts at The Ohio State University is committed to cultivating accessible and inclusive environments in which all people can feel valued and empowered. We value—and defend—free expression, open inquiry, and diversity of perspectives and experiences, and we condemn any form of discrimination. These commitments are guided by respect and appreciation for each other on and around the stage, on and off screen, and across mediated environments.
We believe that another world might be possible. We also believe that theatre, film, and media arts can be sites for radically imagining new, better worlds and ways of being. We hope that, through various registers of performance and analysis, we can make such worlds more tangible and actionable, and thus better understand the revolutionary task that liberatory futures demand of us. In this way, our work is informed by a shared dedication to liberation of all people and energized by critical questions about how such liberation might be defined and realized.