Suri Cruise, 18, has 100 drama classes to choose from at Carnegie Mellon and one of them examines dad Tom Cruise’s sex-cult film Eyes Wide Shut
Suri Cruise is a freshman at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
Daughter Katie Holmes told Town & Country magazine last month that her 18-year-old daughter will study acting and dancing.
Tom Cruise’s estranged son can choose from over 100 theater subjects at the prestigious School Of Drama.
Some include yoga, singing, dancing and the Alexander Technique.
DailyMail.com has learned that there is also a class called Stanley Kubrick and his films, where her father Tom’s sex cult film Eyes Wide Shut from 1999 with his then-wife Nicole Kidman is being watched.
There are already plays lined up that Suri will likely audition for, since she performed in her high school plays. One is about Mary-Kate Olsen and another is about the passengers on the Titanic.
Suri Cruise is a freshman at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburg. Daughter Katie Holmes told Town & Country magazine last month that she will study acting and dance. Tom Cruise’s estranged child has more than 100 theater arts classes to choose from at the prestigious School Of Drama
There is also a class called Stanley Kubrick And His Films, which discusses her father Tom’s 1999 sex cult film Eyes Wide Shut with his then-wife Nicole Kidman
The Kubrick class watches many of the director’s films.
The course description reads: ‘Stanley Kubrick and his films’ Stanley Kubrick and his films explores the astonishing diversity in the oeuvre of this excellent film director from the period 1967-1999.
‘The course will emphasize the psychological and moral issues raised in his films. And the course will focus on his camera techniques, his use of sound and music, and other notable innovative elements.
‘With each film, Kubrick seems to reinvent himself, expanding the dimensions of cinematic art. Films shown in class include: ‘Paths of Glory’ (1957), ‘Lolita’ (1962), ‘Dr. Strangelove’ (1964), ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ (1968), ‘A Clockwork Orange’ (1971), ‘Barry Lyndon’ (1976), ‘The Shining’ (1980), ‘Full Metal Jacket’ (1987), and ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ (1999).’
There are many other plays she can work on and that have somehow associated big names with them.
First up is John Proctor Is The Villain, about teenagers reading The Crucible. That play is being performed at the Helen Wayne Rauh Theater from November 14 to 23, 2024.
Also available is Mr Burns – A Post Electric Play, which runs from November 20 to 23. It is ‘an imaginative, black comedy that explores how the pop culture of one era can evolve into the mythology of another.’
In 2025, even more plays will be performed, including Ghosts, The Inseparables and Titanic The Musical.
Suri and Tom at the Waldorf Astoria Ballroom in New York City in 2012
Tom, seen here with Heather McQuarrie in July, pays Suri’s $65,000-a-year tuition
There are also shows directed by students, the so-called Studio Series.
Twelfth Night, Or What You Will runs September 26-28. Gloria, set in the offices of a New York magazine, is next, running October 23-26. And then there’s Lorac In A Green Dress from November 20-23.
Next year, there’s Mary-Kate Olsen Is In Love by Mallery Avidon and directed by Anya Hilpert. It’s at John Wells Video Studio from April 23-25, 2025. It’s a dark comedy about discovering what it really is to be “happy.”
Father Tom Cruise is paying his $65,000-a-year college tuition as part of his divorce settlement with Katie Holmes.
Mother comes to visit during the Family Weekend on September 27 and 28.
One of the classes Suri is offered is Acting I.
Suri’s mother Katie Holmes attended Columbia University in New York, but dropped out to star in Dawson’s Creek
Holmes arrives at the screening of Pieces of April at The Paris Theater on August 26
‘Knowledge and basic understanding of the components of acting.
‘Basic exercises, improvisations and preparatory work in the areas of relaxation, concentration, imagination, communication’, can be read in the description on the website.
‘The ability to create the reality of a given situation in theatrical terms. Fundamentals of craft in preparation for stage study. The initial development of the students’ creative resources. This course is open to Drama students only.’
There is also a speaking class at the drama school.
“The course introduces students to the pronunciation of the sounds of Standard American English, as presented by Edith Skinner in her textbook SPEAK WITH DISTINCTION,” the website states.
Cruise waves the Olympic flag during the closing ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at the Stade de France on August 11, 2024 in Paris
Then there is another lesson called Voice for the Stage.
And a course called Movement: ‘Kinesthetic awareness and responsiveness are developed through the introduction of the Viewpoints method of physical training. The importance of physical expressiveness and specificity in storytelling is achieved through the creation of compositions based on physical movement.’
She could also take the Choreopoem Making course.
‘In this course we focus on the playwriting genre created by Ntozake Shange – The Choreopoem. A choreopoem can be defined in short as storytelling with movement, an act of rebellion.’
There is a Dramaturgy Forum, dance, singing and jazz.