Actors Studio - Audition
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Actors Studio – Audition
Discover. Create. Transform.
Develop individual and collaborative performance skills. Craft a structured, personalised approach to your work as a performer through practical actor training focused on skills development and application.
This course provides the opportunity to explore and apply contemporary acting techniques to a variety of contexts, and develop your vocal, physical and imaginative dexterity. Work with support and direction from experienced tutors and gain insight and inspiration from professional industry guests.
This course is ideal for those wishing to explore their potential as an artist or those preparing for higher education.
Components
- Instrument Work: Extend your vocal range and find physical freedom through fundamental voice and movement training for the actor.
- Imagination and Collaboration: Work as an ensemble to develop spontaneity in performance through improvisation and impulse work. Apply vocal, physical and acting technique to develop character and inform work with text.
- Classical Technique: Extend your performance range by working with iconic classical texts, re-imagined for the 21st century. Engage with the demands of heightened language, bold physicality and challenging stagecraft.
- Contemporary Scene Work: Develop performance approaches and techniques to realise a range of challenging contemporary material. Apply rehearsal practices and techniques to produce performances that are truthful and engaging.
- Applied Technique: Refine your personal acting process and respond intuitively in a variety of performance contexts. for stage and screen.
- Audition Technique: Select appropriate audition material. Identify and apply effective audition techniques for a range of industry demands.
- Studio Project: Collaborate with a director to rehearse a full-length play. Sustain truthful responses while meeting the staging demands of performance. Present the work in a studio setting to an invited audience.
- Instrument Work: Extend your vocal range and find physical freedom through fundamental voice and movement training for the actor.
- Imagination and Collaboration: Work as an ensemble to develop spontaneity in performance through improvisation and impulse work. Apply vocal, physical and acting technique to develop character and inform work with text.
- Classical Technique: Extend your performance range by working with iconic classical texts, re-imagined for the 21st century. Engage with the demands of heightened language, bold physicality and challenging stagecraft.
- Contemporary Scene Work: Develop performance approaches and techniques to realise a range of challenging contemporary material. Apply rehearsal practices and techniques to produce performances that are truthful and engaging.
- Applied Technique: Refine your personal acting process and respond intuitively in a variety of performance contexts. for stage and screen.
- Audition Technique: Select appropriate audition material. Identify and apply effective audition techniques for a range of industry demands.
- Studio Project: Collaborate with a director to rehearse a full-length play. Sustain truthful responses while meeting the staging demands of performance. Present the work in a studio setting to an invited audience.
Course Outcomes
- Employ improvisation as a tool for creating character
- Respond to and perform a variety of classical and contemporary scripts
- Realise a director’s vision and writer’s intent in performance
- Work as part of an ensemble, applying appropriate etiquette under performance conditions
- Develop authentic characterisation
- Prepare and rehearse audition material
- Apply acting skills to screen performance
Course Dates
| LOCATION | TERM 1 | TERM 2 | TERM 3 | TERM 4 Please note this is a 9-week term. |
| Sydney | 7 Feb – 4 Apr 2027* | 2 May – 20 Jun 2027 | 25 Jul – 12 Sep 2027 | 17 Oct – 12 Dec 2027 |
| Melbourne | 31 Jan – 21 Mar 2027 | 2 May – 20 Jun 2027 | 25 Jul – 12 Sep 2027 | 17 Oct – 12 Dec 2027 |
*Classes do not run over the Easter public holidays.
Note: Term dates for mid-year intake TBC.
Course Fees
The course fee is $5215. This is payable in four instalments across the year or upfront with a 10% discount ($4,963).
A separate non-refundable audition fee of $38 applies.
Prerequisites
Entry to the Actors Studio is by audition only. Detailed audition information will be sent via downloadable link upon enrolment.
For more information, please see our Terms & Conditions.
