Bachelor of Fine Arts – Acting

The University of Alberta’s Bachelor of Fine Arts – Acting program is an intensive, three-year conservatory training program providing an in-depth study of acting, movement, and voice combined with a university degree.

Students receive intensive training in movement, physical theatre, and stage fighting; voice, speech, text analysis, dialect, singing; and immersion in a wide range of acting styles – including acting for the camera – with particular focus on classical/period/extended text. Study with a range of teachers, coaches, and directors including top-rated faculty, MFA directors and theatre professionals from the outside community.

Graduates are prepared for immediate entry into the professional workforce, including extensive audition preparation for both stage and film.

What You’ll Learn

• Physical and vocal flexibility and stamina to tackle any style of playing in today’s theatre.
• Theoretical and critical analysis of contemporary and classical texts, and then a variety of approaches to make them come alive.
• A solid and varied practice that develops all the actor’s tools to create a centered, intuitive, and exciting on-stage presence.
• How to create a vibrant character with extended physical, psychological, imagistic, and vocal qualities.
• How to fill the stage and reach the audience in a variety of performance spaces.
• How to work in an ensemble to ensure respect for the work, the partner, and the self.