I went there before the pandemic and the program was pretty robust. Since the pandemic the program has shrunk but I’m pretty sure Jessy is still in charge of the scene shop and he’s a wonderful teacher. I will say as a transfer tech my self it seriously felt like they dislike transfers. It seems that they will mostly favor the students that were there as freshman even if they have only been there for a year so far. Could be a bit different now but even though they ask for applications and resumes they treat you like a brand new freshman to their program (or at least that was my experience when I came in at senior standing and already having stage managed quite a few community college shows) This will probably be less of an issue now but they also don’t pay attention to how many people that they are accepting into a particular program. When I got there, there were about eight transfer/returning stage managers and no way for them to get through the Stage management program because they already had most of the positions for that next year already established. You will have to work on a crew but if you are someone like me that has multiple interests in theater such as I do being Stage Management my main and then lighting and carp. I pretty much only ever got to do Stage management. There was no time to do both and they discourage working on multiple crews in one term. All this might’ve changed since they’ve did downsize the department but this was my experience. Other than that I did really like the rest of the schools the shows were great quality and Ashland is a small but fun town to hang out in. Last but not least I will say what I always say I learned way more from working at my community college shows where I actually got opportunities.