Year 1
- First-Year Foundations and Unity Play Project
- Vignette Play Project
- Solo Creation
- Free Writing
- Movement
- Plays in Discussion (Ancient to Contemporary)
- Exploring Dramatic Structure
- Preparing for the Profession
Year 2
- Second-Year Project
- Theatre for Young Audiences Project, Phase 1
- Banff Playwrights Lab (New Words Project development)
- Free Writing
- Movement
- Plays in Discussion (Ancient to Contemporary)
- The Canadian Theatre Landscape
- Professional Best Practices
- Creating Great TV (Year 1 or Year 2)
- Theatre 1,2, 3, & 4
- Guest Speakers
Year 3
- New Words Festival Project (Workshops & Production)
- Theatre for Young Audiences Project Phase 2 (with Geordie Theatre)
- Free Writing
- Movement
- Plays in Discussion (Ancient to Contemporary)
- Grant Writing
- SmART Money
- Guest speakers
- In-house and Professional Play Readings and Workshops
- Select intensive workshops, which vary year-to-year. See list below.
Curriculum varies each year, and includes two to three workshops/projects such as:
Blind Imaginings, Character and Disability, Creative Strategies in Black Theatre, Dramatic Structure & New Play Dramaturgy, The Fornes Creation Method, Indigenous Theatre and Storytelling, Japanese Theatre Forms in Context, Moral Complexity and Civic Engagement, Opera Libretto Creation, Performing Images, Post-Dramatic Theatre, Shakespeare’s Text, Solo Piece, Theatre for the Ear (Writing for Podcasts), Writing for Video Games, and others based on students’ interests and needs.
See the list of teaching artists
