Professional Documents
Culture Documents
courses
www.actt.edu.au 2011
EXPERIENCE LIFE …
Differently!
• professional Actor program
• Theatre & screen acting
• Technical Production
• stage management
• music theatre
• YoutH Program
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Includes ACCESS Summer School & Short Courses
“ACTT was the perfect place
for me to express myself
freely… friendly and
professional, nurturing as
well as challenging.”
Luke Joslin (ACTT Graduate,
2010 Greenroom Award-Winner)
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Welcome to ACTT.
Here you’ll discover a place
to play and learn, explore
and imagine, stretch your
wings and your boundaries,
develop your skills, grow your
networks and be inspired.
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The Professional Ac
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tor Program
Diploma of Performance Practice (91381NSW)
Advanced Diploma of Arts in Stage and Screen Acting
(91380NSW)
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Pathway of The Professional Actor Program
YEAR 1
Instrument Preparation YEAR 2
Performance Preparation
• Instrument Preparation
– Believable emotions
• Five live performances
– Physicality
• Stage Craft and Screen Acting
– Creativity
• Guest Directors
YEAR 3
Professional Practice
YEAR 4
B.A. Degree
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Third Year - Professional Practice
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Certificate III in Theatre & Screen Performance
The CORE acting course
(91361NSW)
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“I chose ACTT because
it covered stage and
screen, voice, singing and
movement to ensure an
overall acting approach.”
CHLOE SCHWANK (ACTT Graduate and Professional Actor)
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Certificate IV in Music Theatre
(91362NSW)
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Technical Production at ACTT
Technical Production courses at ACTT are for
people who love the arts but would prefer to
be behind the scenes rather than on-stage.
The college runs courses for anyone interested
in Lighting and Sound Operations, or advanced
Stage Management.
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ACTT Alumni
You might recognise some
faces of our alumni on this
page but many more are
establishing successful
careers.
FIRASS DIRANI
Firass Dirani as John Ibrahim in
Firass is best known for his ‘Underbelly: The Golden Mile’.
role of John Ibrahim in the hit
Australian TV series ‘Underbelly:
The Golden Mile’. He is a LUKE JOSLIN
graduate of ACTT’s Professional Luke Joslin completed The CORE
Actor Program and has recently and went on to win a coveted
completed filming “The Killer Greenroom Award in 2010 for Best
Elite” alongside Robert De Niro, Featured Actor in a Musical for the
Clive Owen and Jason Stratham. role of Nicky/Trekkie Monster in
the hit Musical ‘Avenue Q’, which
LEEANNA WALSMANN
is still touring.
Leeanna Walsman is best known
for her role as Zam Wesell in SOCRATIS OTTO
Star Wars Episode II: Attack Socratis gained a Cert III at ACTT
of the Clones and for playing in Stage and Screen Acting (now
Carly Bishop in the Australian the Professional Actor Program)
film Looking For Alibrandi. Her and has credits that include
numerous theatre credits include Wolverine, The Matrix Re-loaded
Othello for the Bell Shakespeare and he recently played the lead
Company and feature films roles in the mini-series Darwin’s Brave
including The Pacific. New World.
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ACTT Youth Program
ACTT has a wide range of courses available
to teenagers, from holiday workshops to
weekend courses during school terms and our
year-long ACTTivate youth training program.
The range of youth courses offered at ACTT
varies throughout the year and groups are
split into 12–14 and 15–18 age groups.
ACTTivate: 1-Year
(on school weekends)
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ACCESS Program
Short Courses and Summer School
Our ACCESS program is open to anyone to book in
themselves online. It includes an exciting Summer
School with intensive short courses from Beginner
to Advanced Level that are the perfect way to
bring in the New Year. Then, throughout the year
we have an ever-changing range of short courses
to choose from. Because our expert and attentive
teaching team work across all levels, even a short
course at ACTT achieves extraordinary results.
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For teenagers Youth Acting & Filmmaking: Short films for the web
aged 12–18 HSC Play Devising: Expand on school drama
For the time-poor Acting Essentials 1: Fun for the complete beginner
and the beginner Acting Essentials 2: Explore script and character
Screen Acting 1: Acting for the camera with script
Screen Acting 2: New scenes and camera set-ups
For music lovers Music Theatre Intensive: Voice singing and acting
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EXPERIENCE LIFE …
Differently!
Where we are:
Both the ‘ACTT Main Campus’ building and the ‘Cleveland Street
Theatre’ complex are next to Central Station in Sydney, making us
easily accessible by public transport from the entire Sydney region.
Main Campus:
505 Pitt St
Sydney NSW 2000
Australia
P +61 2 9213 4500 ABN 28 806 988 948
F +61 2 9281 3964
Theatre Campus:
199 Cleveland St
Redfern NSW 2016
Australia
info@actt.edu.au
www.actt.edu.au