George Brown College School of Media and Performing Arts

School of Media and Performing Arts - Theatre

50 Tankhouse Lane, Distillery District
Toronto
416.415.5000 ext. 2167
lyip@georgebrown.ca

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Degrees offered

Theatre Arts Certificate - Performance
Theatre Arts Certificate - Preparation

About the program

Our three-year Theatre Arts Performance program explores a wide range of acting styles. Dance, movement, speech and voice training, stage combat, improvisation and audition technique are also key components of the program. In their final year, students work with professional directors, stage managers, designers and technicians to produce a season of shows performed at the Young Centre for the Performing Arts.

Notable alumni

Brad Goreski, Cheryl Cecchetto, Jana Abrams, Marcus Lundgren.

Acceptance rate

George Brown College's minimum GPA requirement for admission is 3.5

Faculty

KAWA ADA (Acting) LESLEY ANDREW (Vocal Music) MICHAEL ARMSTRONG (Speech) STEWART ARNOTT (Scene Study) EVA BARRIE (Shakespeare Scene Study) RAOUL BHANEJA (Shakespeare Scene Study) PIOTR R. BIERNAT (Contact Improvisation, Movement) CINDY BLOCK (Movement) MARK BROWNELL (Theatre History, Dramatic Literature, Creative Process) LEAH CHERNIAK (Clown) ALEX DAULT (Self-producing) SUSAN FERLEY (Guest Director) SHARRY FLETT (Monologue) SIMON FON (Stage Combat) LESLIE FRENCH (Vocal Masque) RICHARD GREENBLATT (Guest Director) VICTORIA HEART (The Alexander Technique) VRENIA IVONOFFSKI (Mask, Commedia Dell'Arte) MARCIA JOHNSON (Storytelling) DEBORA JOY (Voice) JEANNETTE LAMBERMONT-MOREY (Monologue, Period Study) C. KENNEDY MacKINNON (Shakespeare) ROBERT McCOLLUM (Dance) ALLYSON McMACKON (GUEST DIRECTOR) SUE MINER (Coordinator, Director) ALISTAIR NEWTON (Guest Director) GEOFFREY POUNSETT (Speech) DAVID REALE (Acting) ED SAHELY (Group Improvisation) TARA SAMUEL(TV Acting) ROSANNA SARACINO (Fundamentals of Acting, Monologue) ELIZABETH SAUNDERS (Scene Study) JAMES SIMON (Director, Business of Acting, Canadian Drama, Career Studies, Scene Study) CHRISTOPHER STANTON (Vocal Masque) AUSAR STEWART (VOICE) TANISHA TAITT (Scene Study) DAVID TOMPA (Acting) NICOLE WILSON (Vocal Masque) PETER C. WYLDE (Text Study)