WHAT MAKES THE PROGRAM UNIQUE
- Highly personalized mentorship in a class of only two students
- Collaboration with professional actors, designers, dramaturges and theatre artists
- Direct contact with leading professional directors and artistic directors
- Examination of a variety of forms, methodologies and spaces
- Direct interaction with Quebecois artists and theatre practices
- Directing a full-produced one-act play with a team of professional and student artists
- Directing an original play written by a graduating Playwriting student, with a cast, and design and production team made up entirely of graduating students
2 years of training | 2 students every two years
Training
NTS’s training for directors is rigorous and immersive. It supports individual growth through exposure to a diversity of professional forms and theatre styles, and a thorough examination of current theatre practices. Throughout their time at NTS, students will develop an intimate rapport with Canadian and Quebecois theatre artists. While the working language for the program is English, some basic French is encouraged and supported by the School.
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Curriculum
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 unique group of artists making up each class. Our training is always practical, supported by the 20 student shows created each year.
See a list of classesImages from the Directing program
Angelica Schwartz (Directing, Winnipeg, MB) with Savion Roach (Acting, Scarborough, ON) during rehearsal for the 15-minute play project.
Carly Chamberlain (Directing, 2016) during rehearsal
Judy Wensel (Directing, 2018, Regina, SK) with a professional actor, in rehearsal for her end-of-year project.
Harrison Thomas (Directing, 2018) in the lighting laboratory of the main campus of the School
Instructors
Our students are taught and mentored by working professional artists who have their finger on the pulse of the artistic community.
They share a wealth of theatre experience from across Canada and around the world. NTS has an overall ratio of two instructors per student. Our group of teaching artists varies each year according to student needs.
List of artists who mentor our studentsThomas Morgan Jones - Executive Artistic Director of the English Section and Director of the Directing Program and Residencies
"In collaboration with leading theatre artists from across the country, this program offers a foundational and evolving training for directors. It is an honor and a joy to share this journey with two artists every two years."
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They hired our Directing Alumni:
- Artistic Fraud
- Bard on the Beach
- Centaur Theatre
- Crow’s Theatre
- Festival Trans-Amériques
- Globe Theatre
- High Performance Rodeo
- National Arts Centre
- OFFTA
- PuSh
- Segal Centre
- Shaw Festival
- Soulpepper
- Stratford Festival
- SummerWorks
- Tarragon Theatre
- The Theatre Centre
- Why Not Theatre
- 2b Theatre
- FOLDA
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514-842-7954, ext. 134