Working with expert industry teachers, you will develop advanced skills in both stage and screen acting through immersive, practical training.
The course places strong emphasis on detailed script analysis, exploring a play or screenplay’s given circumstances to support the creation of truthful, personalised character interpretations. You will learn how to make clear, imaginative choices and bring characters to vivid, spontaneous life within a professional rehearsal and performance context.
Training is ensemble-focused, fostering collaboration, discipline, and creative responsiveness. Through this collaborative work, you will also develop essential professional vocal and movement skills, building physical and vocal freedom, clarity, and expressiveness. These integrated skills support confident storytelling and prepare you for further professional training and industry pathways.
The Foundation in Acting Program provides you with a pathway into Full Time Study. This course also culminates in a public performance in Studio 2, our purpose-built black box theatre.
The Foundation In Acting Program provides:
| SEMESTER 1 | ||
| Term 1 | 2 February | 25 March |
| Term 2 | 20 April | 10 June |
ENROLMENTS FOR SEMESTER 1 ARE NOW CLOSED
| SEMESTER 2 | ||
| Term 3 | 13 July | 2 September |
| Term 4 | 5 October | 25 November |
Showcase Performances at the end of each semester
| Monday | 6:30 – 9:30pm | |
| Wednesday | 6:30 – 9:30pm | |
The 16-week course fee is $1950
As actors we must let ourselves be seen and work through creative self-consciousness. Cazz will help you find authenticity, empathy and humanness in a role and bring the character to you. Using personalisation, internal landscape and imagery you will learn to create connection and specificity in your work.
Other skills will include basic screen career fundamentals including actor materials, casting, and industry knowledge, how to break down a script and understand the theme and film tone, balancing preparation with ease and presence in performance, building self-taping skills and how to find freedom within the frame.
Monday nights will also bring fun and curiosity to your work with like-minded peers and arm you with essential self-care tools for a sustainable acting career.
Cazz Bainbridge
Shaun will tap into several techniques to help liberate your imagination and open up your body and voice. You’ll develop confidence in monologue and scene-work and find moment-to-moment play within yourself and with other actors.
Shaun’s classes in stage acting and voice are influenced by a contemporary understanding of traditional methods designed to trigger the creative processes within the actor’s body, identifying “habits” and releasing tensions.
In Stage Acting and Voice you will learn script analysis techniques to pay close attention to the clues in the text, and identify clear, high stakes motivation. From here, you will learn how to work within a script’s given circumstances to find an authentic and personalised version of each character and allow spontaneity and believability in each moment.
Shaun Goss