REHEARSAL PROCESS / RESEARCH PRACTICES / COMMUNICATION WITH ACTORS
NTS’s training for directors is rigorous and immersive. It supports individual growth through exposure to a diversity of professional practices and theatre styles, including a thorough examination of current Canadian and Quebec theatre practices. Students in the English Section will also work closely with Directing students from the School’s French Directors’ training program on select projects, allowing students to develop an intimate rapport with Quebecois theatre and artists. While the working language for the program is English, some basic French is encouraged and supported by the School.
In collaboration with the French section's Mise en scène et dramaturgie program.
The director of the Directing program is Alisa Palmer.
ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS
You must be at least 18 years old as of December 31 of the year of entry at NTS.
APPLICATION FORM
IMPORTANT: The Directing program accepts applications once every two years. The applications are currently closed for this program. Next application period: September 2019.
TUITION FEES
2018-2019 School Year
Canadian Citizens and Permanent Residents
$5,725
Foreign Students
$11,450
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DOCUMENTS TO BE SUBMITTED
Once the application has been submitted, candidates are subsequently required to submit a portfolio that will include:
Details are communicated to candidates shortly after the admission deadline.
INTERVIEW
After consideration of these submissions, selected candidates will be invited to attend a workshop in Montreal which will include an interview.
Moving between theoretical work and hands-on application, students solidify their foundations, deepen their self-awareness, develop their personal practice, and experiment with form.
Along with classes and workshop, this second year is dedicated to the realisation of two productions: the first, of the directors' choosing, is surrounded by professional mentors and collaborators; the second is in collaboration with the Playwriting program in the development of the New Words Festival.
Sarah Garton Stanley
Director and dramaturg
Sarah received the 2016 Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas’ Elliot Hayes Award for her focus on the Indigenous body of performance work in Canada.
Brendan Healy (Directing, 2005)
His shows have garnered multiple Dora Mavor Moore Awards and he is a recipient of the Ken McDougall and the Pauline McGibbon awards for directing. Between 2009 and 2015, Brendan was the Artistic Director of Buddies in Bad Times Theatre.
Ravi Jain
Actor and award-winning director whose work has been produced extensively around the world. Over the past six years, as artistic director and founder of his international theatre company Why Not Theatre, Ravi has created over 14 productions, performing in 15 different cities on 4 continents.
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