- 36 Week Course
VAS ACTING CONSERVATORY DIPLOMA
- Price: $14,900
- 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.
This program is not eligible for a Post Graduate Work Permit (PGWP).
ENGLISH LANGUAGE REQUIREMENTS:
1. Submit high school transcripts that show 3 years of full-time secondary education (grades
8-12) have been successfully completed in English in a country where English is one of the principal languages; or
2. Submit post-secondary transcripts that show 2 years of full-time study completed in English at an institution where English is the language of instruction (not including language development courses); or
3. Submit official test scores from any of the test below which meeting the minimum standard:
• IELTS Academic Level; overall 5.5
• TOEFL (IBT) overall 46
• CAEL overall 40
• CELPIP Listening 6; Speaking 6; Reading 5; and Writing 5
• Duolingo English Test (DET) overall 95
• Pearson Test of English (PTE) Academic; overall 43
• Cambridge English Qualifications: B2 First exam (FCE) overall 160 or “C”
• Cabridge Linguaskill overall B2 level
• LANGUAGECERT Academic overall B2 level
• Michigan English Test (MET) overall B2 level
• iTEP Academic overall 3.5
• EIKEN placement of Grade Pre-1
4. If Applicant is 19 years or older at the start of the program and is a Canadian citizen or permanent resident who cannot access is their educational records or provide sufficient evidence of secondary or post-secondary education as outlined above:
• applicant provides attestation that they have completed at least three years of full-time instruction in English in a country where the English is one of the principal languages, and
• Applicant completes an Accuplacer English Assessment (Next Generation: Reading, Writing and WritePlacer) and achieves the following minimum scores: Reading: 235, Writing: 235, WritePlacer 4
NEXT START DATE: March 30, 2026
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What You'll Learn
The Acting Conservatory program is comprised of 890 hours of course work running over 36 weeks.
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
Advanced Audition for Camera
Students are given specific circumstances within which they may find themselves in the professional audition industry.
TERM 1
3 CREDITS
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
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
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
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
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
Advanced Voice & Movement
Students explore advanced Improvisation exercises, play cold reading and theatre history.
TERM 2
3 CREDITS
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
Technique in Practice
Using the exercises explored throughout Term 2, students rehearse and perform 2 short length plays.
TERM 3
3 CREDITS
Rehearsal in Practice
Using the exercises explored throughout Term 2, students rehearse and perform 2 short length plays.
TERM 3
3 CREDITS
Performance in Practice
Using the exercises explored throughout Term 2, students rehearse and perform a full-length play.
TERM 3
3 CREDITS
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
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
