Our training

NTS offers highly individualized training. As such, the curriculum is subject to change, following the latest developments in technology, new artistic practices, and the needs of the specific group of artists making up each class.

Our training is always practical, underpinned by the 20 student shows created each year.

Curriculum

1st Year

The work of this first year will include:

Making and working with actors

Workshops in focused areas of directing

Independent research time

Assistant directing at the National Theatre School

Final Project (expression of artistic research in progress)

*Selected workshops and training opportunities will be offered in collaboration with the French Section

*Subjects of courses will be constantly evolving and designed to best support each student and cohort

2nd Year

The second year continues through:

Making and working with actors

Workshops in focused areas of directing

Independent research time

Assistant directing and apprenticeships in the milieu

Final Project (expression of artistic research in progress)

*Selected workshops and training opportunities will be offered in collaboration with the French Section

*Subjects of courses will be constantly evolving and designed to best support each student and cohort

Possible courses

While courses will change and evolve with each cohort, they may include:

Making (working with fellow directors and actors in space to make, constantly)

Research, readings, history, and dramaturgy

Text analysis

Writing

Movement

Observations

Directing / Being directed

Design (and other courses) courses related to other programs at NTS (lighting, sound, video, set/costume, model-making)

Personal projects

Text editing

Adaptation

Performance

Playwriting, composition, devising

Laboratories

Leadership, direction, and leadership models

Professional placements

Assistant directing (at NTS and in the milieu)

Questions / contexts

Professional development and the industry/ecology

Budgeting