Highlights
You will undertake three years of dedicated training, developing your craft, and graduating with the skills to work in highly diversified sector with career pathways in screen, stage, and beyond. You will begin from the first year, exploring your own creative identity and understanding of creative practice, as well as training in acting skills, including movement, voice, speech production, physical expressivity, character, acting methodologies, and script analysis.
As your course progresses you will continue to refine your acting skills, and your creative leadership skills, as well as having the option to include complementary studies across areas including drama, film, writing, media, and marketing. These studies will increase your entrepreneurial knowledge, and provide greater flexibility of employment in a rapidly changing industry.
Why choose this course?
If your ambition is to build a sustainable career across film, television, screen, emerging media sectors, and stage then this course offers you the range of learning, training and performance opportunities you need. Your passion is shared by your fellow students and by your teachers who continue to pursue successful careers in film, television and live performance.
The course is exhilarating, demanding and life changing, and is a full-time commitment physically, mentally and emotionally. You will receive extensive training in voice, speech production, physical expressivity, character, acting methodologies, script analysis, local and international film and television industries and theatre. With a strong focus on wellbeing you will learn in an inclusive and supportive environment.
Since film, television, screen, and theatre industries need a diversity of skilled young actors, we welcome applications from aspiring actors of all backgrounds via audition.
Real-world learning
Specialised screen training, small group sizes and superb facilities give QUT acting graduates a distinctive edge. Professional film crews will assist you on your shoots, and you'll have opportunities to work with professional directors and designers of national standing.
You will have the opportunity to learn creative leadership, directing and scriptwriting to develop the skills needed to excel in an industry where entrepreneurial production across a diverse range of newly emergent media environments is an increasingly prominent part of actors' career pathways.
Careers and outcomes
Graduates work nationally and internationally as actors for film, television and stage. They have won leading roles in national and state theatre companies, television series, mini-series and feature films.
*Price shown is for indicative purposes, please
February 2025
Queensland University of Technology (QUT)
Gardens Point Campus & Kelvin Grove campus,
BRISBANE CITY,
Queensland,
4000, BRISBANE, Australia
Students must have a pass in Australian Year 12 or equivalent.
Entry requirements may vary from country to country.
IELTS Academic score of 6.5 with Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking score of 6; TOEFL iBT score of 79 with Listening, reading score of 16, Writing score of 21 and Speaking score of 18; Pearson PTE (Academic) score of 58 with Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking score of 50; Cambridge English Advanced (CAE) score of 176 with Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking score of 169.
*There may be different IELTS requirements depending on your chosen course.
QUT is a young, research-intensive university, ranking in the top 200 universities globally (THE World University Rankings 2024).