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Advanced Diploma of Acting21975VIC
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The Advanced Diploma of Acting is an accredited course offered in the Vocational Education and Training sector. VET courses provide students with skills that directly relate to the needs of the Industries they serve. AdmissionEntry to the Advanced Diploma of Acting course is by audition. Applicants must be at least 19 years of age by 1/01/2011. Course OverviewThe Advanced Diploma of Acting is a three-year full-time course which aims to prepare students for professional performing careers and/or careers as creators and presenters of original live or recorded work. Working closely with a range of active Industry professionals, students will undertake a rigorous and highly-integrated program of skills training in stage, screen and television performance . This training will be supported by wide-ranging opportunities to explore related skills such as direction, production, design and writing. Students will be encouraged to work autonomously and collectively, to take responsibility for the on-going nurturing and development of their talent and to continuously maintain and refine their professional goals and develop satisfying, challenging and productive career paths. Students will be expected to demonstrate a strong commitment to themselves and their chosen art-form and work with passion and engagement to maintain, enliven and renew the local and national performing arts scene. The first two years of the course focus on the physical and vocal development of the actor. A wide-ranging variety of approaches to the challenge of translating text into performance are explored through units such as Practical Text, Voicework and The Actor's Body. This work is supported by theoretical and practical investigations of the concepts of "performance" and "theatricality" in units including Elements of Theatre and Critical Studies as well as an on-going descriptive analysis of the structure of contemporary Industry in The Business of Acting. While the emphasis in this foundation training is on live performance its applicability to work in film, television and new media will be introduced the Screen Acting unit. Similarly, the work on devising performance that is also begun at this point in the course will include opportunities for both live and recorded projects. In the final, third year (the Professional Practice Year) students' work on stage and screen and as devisors and producers of original work will be regularly showcased to the public and assessed through the units Stage Production and Perform and Produce Devised Projects
Structure3 years full-time (22 contact hours per week) Monday to Friday 9:30am - 4:00pm Some evening performance work may be required The course is programmed into two Semesters per year. Each Semester is made up of two Terms, each of 8 weeks. Cost: $1,475 per term ($5,900 per year) Austudy and ABSTUDY approved. 2010 DatesTerm 1: 25th February - 23rd April Term 2: 3rd May - 25th June Term 3: 19th July - 10th September Term 4: 20th September - 12th November
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Mark ConstableMark is a graduate of the Western Australia Academy of Performing Arts ( WAAPA). He has an extensive list of theatre, film and television credits as both actor and director, having worked for many companies including the Melbourne Theatre Company, Sydney Theatre Company, Queensland Theatre Company, Malthouse, Black Swan, Griffin and Belvoir Street Theatre. He is the co-founder of the acclaimed Old Fitzroy Theatre and Tamarama Rock Surfers Theatre Company which just celebrated it’s 10 year anniversary and is widely regarded as having ignited and nurtured a whole new wave of independent theatre in Sydney. Most recently he played the lead role in the feature film Modern Love which has played in over 30 festivals around the world winning Best Foreign Film at the 2007 European Independent Film Awards. He played alongside Marcus Graham in the short film Spike Up which won the 2007 AFI for best short film and earlier this year he won Second Prize at Sony Tropfest for his film Uncle Jonny which he wrote directed, produced and acted in himself. He has directed over 25 theatre productions and has taught in numerous acting schools throughout Australia. From 2002-2006 he was the Senior Acting Tutor at the Australian Academy of Dramatic Art (AADA) in Sydney. He has only recently arrived in Melbourne and loves the coffee but is desperately trying to get his head around the knack of catching the right tram and the rules of Australian Football. |
Matt EmondMatthew graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts with a Graduate Diploma in Dramatic Arts (Directing). His directing credits include Taize (Castlemaine State Festival), The Return (National Theatre Drama), Cowboy Mouth (Victorian College of the Arts), Crave (Cat and Fiddle Theatre) and Blow (Theatre Nepean). Matthew has also worked on Saved (Victorian College of the Arts), Hard Lines Readings (Melbourne Theatre Company), with Nick Enright on the second workshop of A Man and Five Children ( Sydney Theatre Company), Ray’s Tempest (Melbourne Theatre Company), and with Geoffrey Rush and Neil Armfield on the sell-out success Exit the King. Matthew was Associate Director of The Journey Program at Actors Centre Australia, Sydney and in 2006 founded REGIONAL THEATRE WORKS, an independent production company supporting the creation of quality contemporary theatre in regional Australia. |
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Andrew GilbertA WAPPA graduate, Andrew has appeared in some of Australia’s most iconic and critically acclaimed films. These include Look Both Ways, Dirty Deeds, Rabbit Proof Fence, The Dish and Mullet, for which he received The Australian Film Critic’s Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor. In 1977 he won an AFI award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Kiss or Kill directed by Bill Bennett. Andrew also has extensive TV credits. |
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Andrew GrayAndrew is a freelance performer and teacher. The basis of his work is the physical body from which spring the nuances of emotional and psychological expression. He is a member of Five Square Metres, a Melbourne based improvisational troupe, and Co-artistic Director of Melbourne Playback Theatre Company. A qualified Feldenkrais practitioner, Andrew originally trained as an actor at the VCA School of Drama and has studied at the Michael Howard Acting Studio in New York and with Ruth Zapporah’s Action Theatre in Berkeley, California. |
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Francis GreensladeFrancis Greenslade began performing with the Adelaide University Footlights. Since then he has performed in regularly in theatre and on television. His theatre credits include: Tartuffe, Babes in the Wood and The Odyssey for the Malthouse, The Madwoman of Chaillot, Urinetown, Things we do for love, Man the Balloon and Blabbermouth for MTC, Chilling and Killing my Annabel Lee, Waking Eve and Competitive Tenderness for Playbox and Navigating for STC. His television credits include: City Homicide, All Saints, Micallef Tonight, The Micallef P(r)ogram(me), Marshall Law, Blue Heelers,Seachange, Pig's Breakfast, Full Frontal and Critical Mass. |
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Peter HoughtonPeter works as an actor, writer and director in theatre, film and television. He has directed productions for the Melbourne Theatre Company, Playbox/Malthouse, Melbourne International Festival, Griffin Theatre, Marriner Theatres and WAAPA, among others. As an actor Peter has worked for the Melbourne Theatre Company, Sydney Theatre Company, Belvoir St, and the Malthouse, and has toured nationally with several productions. This year, Peter will direct the national tour of A Tribute to Danny Kaye, and his play The Pitch will play at the Malthouse for the Comedy Festival, at the Assembly rooms in Edinburgh, and will tour nationally and internationally in 2007/2008.Peter has been nominated for several Victorian Green Room Awards, including; Best Actor for Misalliance (MTC), Ruby Moon (Playbox), The Pitch (La Mama) and Endgame (11th Hour), and Best Director for Front (Melbourne Workers Theatre). He has been short listed for an AFI award for a guest role on Blue Heelers and received a Green Room Award for direction of new Australian work for his work on Footprints on Water and No Man’s Island. |
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Luciano MartucciLuciano is a graduate of the NIDA Acting Course (1984) and Adelaide University (BA, Dip Ed.) He has performed throughout Australia as an actor on stage, television, film and radio. His credits include work with the Melbourne Theatre Company, Sydney Theatre Company, Bell Shakespeare Company, State Theatre Company (SA), The Gordon/Frost Organisation and the Sydney Dance Company. |
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Margaret MillsA graduate of VCA School of Drama Margaret has performed in over thirty productions with MTC, The Malthouse, La Mama, Belvoir St, STC, Black Sequin Productions, Whistling in the Theatre and Ranters Theatre with such writers and directors as Andrew Bovell, Jenny Kemp, Neil Armfield, Roger Hodgman, Marguerite Duras, Daniel Keene, Raimondo and Adriano Cortese, Melissa Reeves, and Noelle Janaczewska. Credits include The Doll’s House, Angels in America, A Cheery Soul, History of Water, Still Angela, The Black Sequin Dress, Speaking in Tongues (from which Lantana was adapted). She has co-written several produced plays. Her film work includes The Golden Braid (Paul Cox), Bachelor Girl (Rivka Hartman) and the international award winning short film The Other Days of Ruby Rae. |
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Anne O'KeeffeAnne O’Keeffe is a teacher, choreographer and performer with a B.Ed in Dance and Drama (Deakin University, 1983) and a Grad. Dip. of Choreography (V.C.A, 1997). She has worked as a freelance artist for the past 21 years, creating work for the Victorian Arts Centre, Australian Choreographic Centre, Dancehouse and numerous theatre groups and community events. Anne has taught Movement to actors at the National, Ballarat University and the Victorian College of the Arts. She performs regularly in Melbourne as an improviser and her company, Sirensong, has produced Walk on Water at the Melbourne City Baths (2000) and her full-length solo work Sex and Death (2002/3). |
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Greg StoneGreg graduated from NIDA in 1983 and has performed for all the major theatre companies in Australia. In 2006 he won both the Helpmann and Greenroom awards for best actor in Neil Armfield's production of Stuff Happens. He has performed in many MTC productions, including The Pillowman, A Little Night Music and Angels in America. He was Artistic Associate at the Playbox Theatre in 2004 and was a founding member of the Theatre Project. His film credits include The Bank, Boytown and William. |
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Ingrid WeisfeltIngrid has worked as a performer, movement teacher, directors’ assistant and choreographer throughout Australia and Europe. She has worked with Meryl Tankard’s Australian Dance Theatre, TanzTheater Basel, Vienna International Arts Festival, Steirischer Herbst Festival Graz, ChamberMade Opera, Kage Physical Theatre, Not Yet It’s Difficult, Chunky Move, Opera Australia, Opera Victoria, Red Stitch Actors Theatre, and Schauspielhaus Koeln. Ingrid is a certified Feldenkrais practitioner. |