ACTING
DIPLOMA
DIPLOMA
Your career as a professional actor, director, playwright or theatre major gets off to a great start in this two-year intensive program. Experiential learning grounds you in the art and industry of theatre and gives you a solid foundation the most essential element of theatre: acting. Through every class and experience, you learn how to be a storyteller who tells the truth with artistry, while becoming a confident and versatile performer.
Collaborate, produce and complete internships within the Calgary theatre community.
You'll study with your cohort for two years to complete your Diploma in Acting.
Take 20 credits per semester [that's 40 a year] for a total of 80 credits.
Develop the skills of a confident and versatile performer as you learn about all aspect of theatre craft. By pursuing honesty in all that you do, you'll encounter your fears and your faith and transform yourself, which will inspire you to transform your culture through your art.
Here's a sampling of the jobs our alumni have landed with this degree or entered through further studies:
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Barrett Hileman, MFA | Associate Professor of Theatre | LL108 | bhileman@ambrose.edu | - |
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Val Lieske, BA | Associate Director of Theatre | RELL106 | VLieske@ambrose.edu | - |
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Sheahan Keinick, F.ISTD, L.ISTD | Sessional Faculty - Movement | - | sheahan.keinick@ambrose.edu | - |
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Krista Marushy, BA, MFA | Sessional Instructor - Intro to Theatre | - | krista.marushy@ambrose.edu | - |
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Chantal Gander, MA, BA | Sessional Faculty - Dance Fundamentals | - | - | |
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Kristen Pauch-Nolin, MFA | Sessional Faculty - Art History | - | kristen.pauch-nolin@ambrose.edu | - |
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Eden Hildebrand | Sessional | - | Eden.Hildebrand@ambrose.edu | - |
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John Knight | Sessional | - | john.knight@ambrose.edu | - |
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Jennifer Lee Arsenault | - | - | jennifer.arsenault@ambrose.edu | - |
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Jacqueline Russell | Sessional | - | Jacqueline.Russell@ambrose.edu | - |