Following the death of George Floyd, many institutions put out statements regarding the Black Lives Matter movement. Among these was a declaration released by NTS, Declaration to Fight Systemic Racism. This prompted a series of conversations (both public and private) between the NTS administration and a group of IBPoC students, who would later come to be known as the IBPoC ASC. 

Professional mentor Marie Barlizo shares a deeply personal essay about her personal and professional journey, through her studies at NTS and beyond. 

Take a look at the National Theatre School's Music, Voice and Speech classes in times of pandemic with Laurel Thomson (Head of Voice) and Floydd Ricketts (Head of Music).

"Welcome to our Associate Artists in the English Section! In collaboration with program directors and teaching teams, these gifted and experienced artists provide a wide range of expertise and insight for NTS students across all the theatre disciplines.".

"We’ve seen in recent weeks and months that some of our Canadian theatre institutions still have a lot of work to do in this area, and NTS isn’t exempt from that. I’m happy to see that NTS as taken great steps to address some of the concerns that have been brought to its attention recently".

The first English section meeting of the year was held – on Zoom, of course. This meeting brings together all students from all professional training programs in the English section, as well as program directors, associate artists and resident artists. As per tradition for a few years now, we asked returning students to bestow advice upon first-year students. Here is a snippet of what they had to say.