- 36 Week Course
VAS ACTING CONSERVATORY DIPLOMA
- Price: $13,900
- Materials Cost: $400
Go deep, find your process, and use it beyond the audition room. Our graduate Acting Conservatory program will introduce you to advanced acting methods and allow you to use them in a variety of real-world scenarios. By working on Monologues, One-Acts, and a Full-Length Play, you’ll test the waters and gain real world experience in front of an audience, which allows you to take your talents to a whole new level.
PROGRAM OUTLINE
Vancouver Acting School’s Acting Conservatory program provides students with training and performance in a theatre format in front of audiences of all sizes. It is designed to expand the actor’s toolbox at an advanced level, giving the actor a necessary foundation for booking and performing challenging lead and supporting roles. Students will additionally be showcased for agents and casting directions with multiple live stage performances.
The 9-month Acting Conservatory graduate acting program is an opportunity to build upon the skills learned in the undergraduate Acting: Film, Television & Voice-Over diploma program, providing you a true process and an extended set of skills to be prepared for roles of any size. This program offers one of the most elite level opportunities to develop a true process for stage that will allow you to confidently prepare and deliver performances for roles of all sizes and styles. It is reserved for the top students from our undergraduate acting program and is designed to expand the actor’s toolbox at an advanced level, giving the actor a necessary foundation for booking and performing challenging lead and supporting roles.
PRE-REQUISITES: completion of the Vancouver Acting School Acting: Film, Television & Voice-Over program, or a similar full time program at a recognized post-secondary institution.
ENGLISH LANGUAGE REQUIREMENTS: Applicants with mature students status, and/or students whose first language is not English, below are the minimum scores required from any one of the following tests in English proficiency: IELTS, TOEFL, TOEIC or Cambridge. If necessary, we may also require a telephone or in-person interview.
- International English Language Testing Service (IELTS): minimum score required is overall 6.0
- Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL): minimum score required is 68 for the internet-based exam, 190 for the computer-based exam and 520 for the paper-based exam
- Test of English for International Communication (TOEIC): minimum score required is 700
- Cambridge First Certificate in English (FCE): minimum level achieved B1
NEXT START DATE: March 31, 2025
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What You'll Learn
The Acting Conservatory program is comprised of 870 hours of course work running over 36 weeks.
ACT-200
Intro to Classic Theatre
Students are introduced to works from the Greek Tragedies to Shakespeare’s plays focusing on theatrical/acting elements and their use in exercise to develop the beginning stages of their individual process.
TERM 1
3 CREDITS
ACT-210
Advanced Audition for Camera
Students are given specific circumstances within which they may find themselves in the professional audition industry.
TERM 1
3 CREDITS
ACT-220
Fundamentals - Improv, Story & Theory
Students explore elements of story and its structure through personal story telling, play cold reading exercises, theatre history research, and improvisation exercises.
TERM 1
3 CREDITS
ACT-230
Voice & Movement with Clown
Through a series of exercises and assignments students are introduced to elements of clown, mask, and bouffon.
TERM 1
3 CREDITS
ACT-250
Discovering the Actor's Process
This class is intended to provide the students with monologue and scene work in which they use the exercises and techniques introduced in other Conservatory classes.
TERM 1
3 CREDITS
ACT-201
Intro to Hagen & Adler
Students work with exercises developed by esteemed acting teachers Uta Hagen and Stella Adler. The focus will be on “object exercises” and “transference/substitution”.
TERM 2
3 CREDITS
ACT-202
Intro to Effective Rehearsal
Students are guided through several Rehearsal Techniques to explore the life of the character. Examples include “The Light”, “Animal”, “Regression”.
TERM 2
3 CREDITS
ACT-231
Advanced Voice & Movement
Students explore advanced Improvisation exercises, play cold reading and theatre history.
TERM 2
3 CREDITS
ACT-251
Exploring the Actor's Process
This class continues to provide the students with scene work in which they use the exercises and techniques introduced in other Conservatory classes. Scene work is strengthened using a variety of games, exercises and challenges.
TERM 2
3 CREDITS
ACT-203
Technique in Practice
Using the exercises explored throughout Term 2, students rehearse and perform 2 short length plays.
TERM 3
3 CREDITS
ACT-204
Rehearsal in Practice
Using the exercises explored throughout Term 2, students rehearse and perform 2 short length plays.
TERM 3
3 CREDITS
ACT-223
Performance in Practice
Using the exercises explored throughout Term 2, students rehearse and perform a full-length play.
TERM 3
3 CREDITS
ACT-232
The Devised Piece
Students work with Voice and Movement instructors to develop, write and rehearse a short play using personal stories and experiences.
TERM 3
3 CREDITS
ACT-252
The Actor's Process in Performance
Using the “process” they have developed during Terms 1 and 2, students rehearse and perform a full-length play.
TERM 3
3 CREDITS
