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 Laurel Thomson
• Choral and Ensemble Singing Music Theory including Ear Training and Sight Reading with Floydd Ricketts
• Vocal Play and Text with Brian Dooley
• Stage Combat with Anita Nittoly and David Chinchilla
• Canadian Theatre in Context with Leah Jane Esau
• Theatre History with Willow White
• Text work with Mike Payette
• Ongoing Creative Resistance Through Indigenous Theatre with Wahsonti:ioKirby

Project Work

• Silent Improvisation with Brad Cook
• Jeu and Play with Arianna Bardesono
• Neutral Mask with Rebecca Harper
• Project Motherland with Todd Houseman
• Introduction to an Actor’s Process - Scorched by Wajdi Mouawad with Fiona Byrne and Yousef Kadoura
• Shakespeare Scene Study – As You Like It - with Tim Welham and Jessica B Hill
• Improvisation with Dialogue with Rebecca Northan
• Solo Piece Creation with Ann-Marie MacDonald, Rose Plotek and Mel Hague
• Creation Project (Year 1 of a 3-year process) - with Maiko Yamamoto
• Canadian Theatre Study - Angelique by Lorena Gale with Quincy Armorer and Willow White
• 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 Laurel Thomson
• Choral and Ensemble Singing, Music Theory including Ear Training and Sight Reading with Floydd Ricketts
• Stage Combat with Anita Nittoly, David Chinchilla and John Stead
• Ballet and Contemporary Dance Forms with Andrew Giday
• 20th-century Dance Forms with Jocelyn Coutu
• Vocal Mask with Brian Dooley
• Theatre History with Willow White
• Complex Movement with The Montreal Steppers

Project Work

• Canadian Scene study with Diana Donnelly, Andre Sills and Harveen Sandu 
• Chekov Intensive with Jackie Maxwell and Jessica B Hill
• Creation Project (year 2 of 3) with Jiv Parasram and Christine Quintana
• Solo Song with Floydd Ricketts and Alexis Gordon
• Shaw Intensive with Graeme Somerville and Marla Mclean
• From Page to Stage- Contemporary Theatre – 365 Plays/365 Days by Suzan Lori Parks Directed by Alisa Palmer
• Expressive Mask with Rebecca Harper
• Make-up Technique with Florence Cornet
• Shakespeare Studio Production- A Most Offensive Soul a Mash up of the Henry Plays adapted and directed by Danielle Irvine
• 15-minute and New Play Development with Students of the Directing and Playwriting Programs

3rd Year

Core Classes

• Movement and Voice and Text Coaching with Rebecca Harper and Laurel Thomson
• Music Theatre Audition Technique with Floydd Ricketts
• Commercial and Voice-over Techniques with Alain Goulem
• Methodology of Auditions; Classical and Contemporary Monologues with Fiona Byrne and Tim Welham
• Professional Development -Self-initiative and Business Knowledge workshops with Caroline Aki Matsushita-Guertin and Cherissa Richards
• New Play Development workshops of new scripts with Students of the Directing and Playwriting Programs and Professional Dramaturges and David Yee
• Next Generation Audition Showcase with Tim Welham, Fiona Byrne and Cherissa Richards
• Self Tape workshopwith Meegwun Fairbrother

Productions

• Creation production An Irresistible Urge To Do Something Inadvisable directed by Jani Lauzon.
• Mainstage 1 Venus by Suzan-Lori Parks, directed by Mike Payette with Rebecca Harper and Warone Setshwaelo
• National Audition Showcase in Toronto, ON
• Film Audition Workshop with Deirdre Bowen
• Mainstage 2 Cabaret by Joe Masteroff (Book), John Kander (Music), Fred Ebb (lyrics), based on a play by John van Druten and the stories of Christopher Isherwood, directed by MatjashMrozewski and music direction by Floydd Ricketts
• Cabaret Performance with Floydd Ricketts
• Film Intensive with Allan Hawco
• New Words Festival Plays - TBD

Note: Curriculum varies each year according to student needs and productions. Here is a sample of curriculum from the 2021/22 school year.