Our training
NTS offers highly individualized training. As such, the curriculum is subject to change, following the latest development in technology, new artistic practices, and the needs of the specific group of artists making up each class.
Curriculum
1st Year
Core Classes
- Pure Movement and Imaginative Play for Actors including Laban, Imaginative Play, Animals, Elements with Rebecca Harper
- Foundations of Voice and Speech: Breath / Body / Voice connection, Poetry, Sonnets with Lauren Maykut
- Choral and Ensemble Singing, Music Theory and Musical in Concert with Jonathan Patterson
- Vocal Play and Text with Brian Dooley
- Stage Combat with Robert Montcalm
- Theatre History with Marie Trotter
- Theatre of Turtle Island with Todd Houseman
- Text Analysis with Micheline Chevrier
- Complex Movement – Balypso with Jamila Joseph
Project Work
- Jeu and Improvisation with Arianna Bardesono
- Neutral Mask with Rebecca Harper
- Project Motherland with Todd Houseman
- Acting 1 with Thomas Morgan Jones
- Shakespeare Text and Scene Study with Tim Welham and Rebecca Gibian
- Improvisation with Ann-Marie Kerr
- Solo Piece Creation with Warona Setshwaelo and Marie Beath Badian
- Creation Project (Year 1 of a 3-year process) – with Nina Lee Aquino and David Lee
- Full Play Study (TBD) with Quincy Armorer
- New Play Development – Workshops and Play Readings with students of the Playwriting Program
2nd Year
Core Classes
- Movement for Actors: Pure Movement, Laban, Imaginative Play, Animals, Elements in connection to text with Rebecca Harper
- Breath / Body / Voice connection, Dialects, Shakespeare Monologues with Lauren Maykut
- Choral and Ensemble Singing, Music Theory and Musical in Concert with Jonathan Patterson
- Viewpoints and Suzuki with Thomas Morgan Jones
- Jeu and Improvisation with Adam Lazarus
- Stage Combat with Robert Montcalm
- Contact Improvisation with Erin Flynn
- 20th-century Dance with Jocelyn Coutu
- Vocal Masque with Brian Dooley
- Theatre History with Marie Trotter
- Complex Movement with The Montreal Steppers
Project Work
- Scene Study – Contemporary with Nancy Benjamin and Julie Tamiko Manning
- Scene Study – Spanish Golden Age with Rodrigo Beilfuss
- Scene Study – Interwar Period with Graeme Somerville and Jessica B Hill
- Solo Song with Jonathan Patterson, Keisha Fraser and Chris Barillaro
- Expressive Mask with Rebecca Harper
- Make-up Technique with Veronique St-Germain
- Brave New Works with Marcus Youssef
- Start Where You Are with Daniel MacIvor
- From Page to Stage – Studio Production – Aurush by Bahram Beyzaie, directed by Thomas Morgan Jones
- Shakespeare Studio Production – (play TBD) directed by Molly Atkinson
- New Play Development Workshops and Play Readings with Students of the Directing and Playwriting Programs
3rd Year
Core Classes
- Movement and Voice and Text Coaching with Rebecca Harper and Lauren Maykut
- Audition Techniques with Jonathan Patterson, Thomas Morgan Jones and Quincy Armorer
- Viewpoints and Suzuki with Thomas Morgan Jones
- Commercial and Voice-over Techniques with Alain Goulem
- Grant Writing Workshop with Marie Barlizo
- Professional Development – Self-initiative and Business Knowledge workshops with Jonathan Patterson
- New Play Development workshops of new scripts with Students of the Directing and Playwriting Programs
- Next Generation Audition Showcase with Tim Welham, Fiona Byrne and Quincy Armorer
- Acting for the Camera with Salvatore Antonio
- Smart Money with Doug Price
Productions
- Studio production – Parliament of the Birds by Guillermo Verdecchia, directed by Soheil Parsa
- Mainstage 1 – Paradise Lost by Erin Shields, directed by Sarah Garton Stanley
- Mainstage 2 – Pericles by William Shakespeare, directed by Sir Gregory Doran
- Cabaret Performance with Jonathan Patterson
- New Words Festival Productions – TBD
