David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University

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The David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University is a graduate professional school of Yale University, located in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1924 as the Department of Drama in the School of Fine Arts, the school provides training in every discipline of the theatre – acting, design, directing, dramaturgy and dramatic criticism, playwriting, stage management, technical design and production, and theatre management. It was known as the Yale School of Drama until its endowment by David Geffen in 2021.

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Yale University is a private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701, Yale is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, and one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution.

Charter creating the Collegiate School, which became Yale College, October 9, 1701

A front view of "Yale-College" and the college chapel, printed by Daniel Bowen in 1786

Coat of arms of the family of Elihu Yale, after whom the university was named in 1718

Connecticut Hall, oldest building on the Yale campus, built between 1750 and 1753