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Bachelor of Fine Arts (Acting) - Queensland University of Technology |
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TEL: 0207 193 7932
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| QTAC code: | | 421912 |
| | Domestic entry: | | February |
| | Past OP cut-off: | | Admission to course is based on audition and interview. Please refer to Additional Entry Requirements. |
| | Past rank cut-off: | | Admission to course is based on audition and interview. Please refer to Additional Entry Requirements. |
| | Assumed knowledge: | | English (4, SA) |
| | Preparatory studies: | | ENGLISH: Successful completion of a year of full-time vocational or tertiary study. |
| | CRICOS code: | | 056185A |
| | International fees: | | 2009: $9,750 (indicative) per semester
(per semester, subject to annual review) |
| | International entry: | | February |
| | Course duration (full-time): | | 3 years |
| | Total credit points: | | 288 cp |
| | Standard credit points/full-time semester: | | 48 cp |
| | Campus: | | Kelvin Grove |
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Why choose this course?
This conservatory style acting course is designed to develop your individual acting ability.
Practical teaching
QUT is highly regarded in the profession for the thoroughness of its audition processes, the passion, quality and rigour of its teaching, its emphasis on the integration of craft training, the care and attention for the individual development of each student and the strong ensemble ethic shared by staff and students.
Industry links
Our strong links with industry mean that you'll graduate with networking skills and contacts.
Public performance seasons in your second and third years will provide opportunities to work with professional directors and production designers. Your film work will be under the guidance of professional directors and production crew.
Your third year culminates in QUT Acting Graduates Industry Days in Sydney and Brisbane ? your opportunity to showcase your film and stage work to directors, management agents and casting agents.
Course structure
Three years of intense training and performing will provide you with a disciplined framework through which to explore the depth of your own creativity. QUT offers both a strong focus on acting for the screen as well as traditional conservatory-based actor training for the stage.
The professional challenges actors meet are changing all the time. We aim to be active and boundary-pushing in our response to those challenges. You'll graduate with an understanding of the industry, ready to identify your niche within it.
Career Outcomes
Graduates work as actors for stage, film and television. They have won leading roles in national and state theatre companies, television series and mini-series and feature films. Others successfully self-produce opportunities in film and theatre.
Successful graduates
Gyton Grantley gained critical acclaim for his role as Carl Williams in Channel Nine's Underbelly, in which Ryan Johnson also stars. Ryan has also acted in episodes of CSI: New York, Home and Away, and All Saints.
2006 graduates Joshua Helman and Kathryn Beck spent much of 2007 on the set of major productions. Joshua will soon be seen in Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg's production The Pacific. Kathryn Beck has recently been seen in ABC mini-series East of Everything.
Conrad Coleby currently plays Ronan Harris in Home and Away. His career includes achievements in stage and screen, including All Saints and productions for Queensland Theatre Company and Sydney Theatre Company.
Wayne Blair was the first indigenous actor to play the lead role in Othello for the Bell Shakespeare Company?s 2007 production, and has since appeared in and directed cult broadway play Jesus Hopped the A Train at the Belvoir Theatre in Sydney.
Matt Zeremes regularly collaborates with fellow QUT actors. He appeared with Ryan Johnson in independent film All My Friends Are Leaving Brisbane, co-produced, directed and starred in Burke and Wills with Oliver Torr, and he and Guy Edmonds received rave reviews for Holding the Man at Belvoir Theatre in Sydney and Brisbane's Powerhouse.
Additional Entry Requirements
Applicants are selected on the basis of their audition and interview.
Overview
This conservatorium-style acting course is designed to develop your individual acting ability. Three years of intense training and performing will provide you with a disciplined framework through which to explore the depth of your own creativity.
The professional challenges actors meet are changing all the time. We aim to be active and boundary-pushing in our response to those challenges. You will graduate with an understanding of the industry, ready to identify your niche within it.
Career Outcomes
Graduates work as actors for stage, film and television. They have won leading roles in national and state theatre companies, television series and mini-series and feature films. Others successfully self-produce opportunities in film and theatre.
Course Structure
In order to complete this course, students must undertake two Creative Industries Foundation units, a maximum of 168 credit points of discipline or specified units relating to the chosen major and 96 credit points of Complementary Studies made up of either Advanced Acting Practice, a Second Major, Minors or elective units.
Course Structure
| Code | Title | | Semester 1, Year 1 | | KKB101 | Creative Industries: People and Practices | | KSB101 | Acting 1 | | KSB103 | Voice and Movement 1 | | | Complementary Studies | | Semester 2, Year 1 | | KKB102 | Creative Industries: Making Connections | | KSB102 | Acting 2 | | KSB104 | Voice and Movement 2 | | | Complementary Studies | | Semester 1, Year 2 | | KSB223 | Voice and Movement 3 | | KSB229 | Acting 3 | | | Complementary Studies | | Semester 2, Year 2 | | KSB224 | Voice and Movement 4 | | KSB230 | Acting 4 | | | Complementary Studies | | Semester 1, Year 3 | | KSB301 | Theatre Project 1 | | Semester 2, Year 3 | | | Complementary Studies | | | Complementary Studies | | | Complementary Studies | | | Complementary Studies |
Potential careers
Actor
Artist
Drama Teacher
Film/Television Producer
Theatre Professionals
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