New Play Actor Training provides an opportunity for actors to develop and implement the skills needed to meaningfully workshop new theatre.

Application Deadline: 14 May 2025
Program Dates: 15 – 27 Sep 2025

Participants will engage with a diverse list of texts at various stages of development under the tutelage of guest directors and playwrights. Actors will work on text analysis, be provided with a technical toolkit to assist with cold reading, and practice providing articulate and helpful feedback to creators.

Actors can spend a large portion of their careers workshopping and acting in premieres, but there is very little training specifically for this practice. This program offers early career and established performers the opportunity to explore new plays, alongside lectures, Q & As, coaching’s, and on your feet practical application in the skills directors and playwrights look for when working with actors.

Participants will receive:

– Mentorship with leading playwrights and directors and dramaturges
– Daily warmups and rehearsals in studio
– Hands-on practical work on new plays
– Q and A’s and seminars with those experienced in the field

Actors at any stage of their careers, ideally with some training in a post-secondary training environment, and some experience in a rehearsal room.

Standard scholarship: covers 100% of tuition fees, and 50% of meals and accommodation costs

For further information, please contact arts_info@banffcentre.ca (Rhona Dolson), call 403-762-6696 or visit https://bit.ly/41Ys7WL.