Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting

University of Ottawa

The Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting (BFA in Acting) is an intensive three-year program designed to train professional actors to meet the challenges of today’s theatre. The program has three main areas of focus, with the level of difficulty increasing as students make their way through the curriculum. The first area deals with specific acting techniques (movement, voice, diction, interpretation, sight reading, etc.) and aims to develop control and harness the expressive potential of the body and voice, the actor's two main tools. The second area gives students an opportunity to put their training into practice in a series of four public performances directed or supervised by recognized professionals. The third area offers students a solid grounding in the history and analysis of theatre as live art, including the theatrical culture needed to understand and contextualize their work as actors. The program concludes with courses and workshops aimed at providing future graduates with the means to manage their careers and join the acting profession.

Faculty of Arts