Certificate III in Theatre and Screen Performance

(91361NSW)

Certificate III in Theatre and Screen Performance is an accredited course offered in the Vocational Education and Training sector. VET courses provide students with skills that directly relate to the needs of the Industries they serve.

Admission

Entry to the Certificate III in Theatre and Screen Performance is by audition. Applicants must be at least 19 years of age by 30th June 2010.

Structure

The course runs for 7 months part time (Monday - Thursday, 6:30pm - 10pm, Sunday 10am - 4:30pm), and is programmed into 4 terms, each of 7 weeks duration. There are appox. 20 contact hours per week. The course is Austudy approved.

Cost: $1,200 per term ($4,800 per year)

Term Dates

Term 1: February 8th - March 28th
Term 2: April 12th - May 30th
Term 3: June 14th - August 1st
Term 4: August 9th - September 26th

Course Overview

Certificate III in Theatre and Screen Performance is an accredited part-time course which runs over seven months and introduces students to professional practice in a number of performance and performance-related areas.

Apart from skills training in Voice, Movement and Stage & Screen Acting, the course offers practical experience in preparing and mounting a small theatre production as well as introducing Singing, Comedy and Australian Theatre History.

Tutors Include...

Trent Baker

A graduate of W.A.A.P.A. (Acting) and the V.C.A. – (Direction) Trent has over 15 years experience in the Australian entertainment industry Teaching, Acting and Directing. He has taught for MTC, Bell Shakespeare, The VCA, The National Theatre, St Martins Youth Theatre, Shakespeare’s Globe Australia and Drama With A Difference. As a personal acting coach he has helped students attain entry to the country’s top drama schools. For MTC Trent has three times played the title role in MacBeth and in 2008 was seen in Scarlett O’Hara at the Crimson Parrot. One of the original twelve actors to begin Red Stitch Actors Theatre, in 1999 with Nancy Cato he created the Chapel Loft theatre and in 2008 with Richard Stables formed West East Theatre. Trent has worked for MTC, Bell Shakespeare, The Malthouse, The Athenaeum, Railway Street Theatre, Red Stitch, La Mama, The Storeroom and Human Sacrifice. He was assistant director to Simon Phillips on the MTC productions Festen and Scarlett O’Hara at the Crimson Parrot. Most recently he starred in the 2008 trop fest finalist film Beggars Belief and directed A Man For All Seasons for MTC education.

Danielle Carter

Danielle Carter graduated from NIDA. Her theatre credits include Status Update (Explorations La Mama), Midsummer Night’s Dream ( Theatre Works and for the Original Shakespeare Company), Shadow Passion ( Chapel off Chapel), Europe ( VCA Director Season), Still ( La Mama/Malthouse), Face to Face (Ensemble), The Quartet from Rigoletto (Cue/Ensemble), All Things Considered (Marion St), Property of the Clan (Theatre 20/20), Away & Hypothalamania (STC), Here Comes a Chopper, Uncle Vanya, Hamlet, Road, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (NIDA) and the national tour of Dags.

Danielle’s TV credits include Underbelly, All Saints, Elephant Princess, City Homicide, Stingers, Salem's Lot, The Secret Life of Us, Blue Heelers, Lost World, Halifax fp, Something in the Air (series 1 and 2) , Beast Master, Fearless, Flipper, Murder Call, Tales of the South Seas, Medivac (series 1 and 2), GP, Heartland, Home and Away, Neighbours and Richmond Hill (series 1). Danielle has also appeared on film in Knowing, Eustice Solves a Problem, The Blue Lady, The Fortune Teller, A Few Things I Know About Her, Kid in a Bin and Sweet as a Peach. Danielle’s book Racing Against Time – The actor’s handbook for film and television is essential reading for actors interested in pursuing a career in front of the camera.

Mark Constable

Mark is a graduate of the Western Australia Academy of Performing Arts ( WAAPA). He has an extensive list of theatre, film and television credits as both actor and director, having worked for many companies including the Melbourne Theatre Company, Sydney Theatre Company, Queensland Theatre Company, Malthouse, Black Swan, Griffin and Belvoir Street Theatre. He is the co-founder of the acclaimed Old Fitzroy Theatre and Tamarama Rock Surfers Theatre Company which just celebrated it’s 10 year anniversary and is widely regarded as having ignited and nurtured a whole new wave of independent theatre in Sydney. Most recently he played the lead role in the feature film Modern Love which has played in over 30 festivals around the world winning Best Foreign Film at the 2007 European Independent Film Awards. He played alongside Marcus Graham in the short film Spike Up which won the 2007 AFI for best short film and earlier this year he won Second Prize at Sony Tropfest for his film Uncle Jonny which he wrote directed, produced and acted in himself. He has directed over 25 theatre productions and has taught in numerous acting schools throughout Australia. From 2002-2006 he was the Senior Acting Tutor at the Australian Academy of Dramatic Art (AADA) in Sydney. He has only recently arrived in Melbourne and loves the coffee but is desperately trying to get his head around the knack of catching the right tram and the rules of Australian Football.

Anne O'Keeffe

Anne O’Keeffe is a teacher, choreographer and performer with a B.Ed in Dance and Drama (Deakin University, 1983) and a Grad. Dip. of Choreography (V.C.A, 1997). She has worked as a freelance artist for the past 21 years, creating work for the Victorian Arts Centre, Australian Choreographic Centre, Dancehouse and numerous theatre groups and community events. Anne has taught Movement to actors at the National, Ballarat University and the Victorian College of the Arts. She performs regularly in Melbourne as an improviser and her company, Sirensong, has produced Walk on Water at the Melbourne City Baths (2000) and her full-length solo work Sex and Death (2002/3).

Francis Greenslade

Francis Greenslade began performing with the Adelaide University Footlights. Since then he has performed in regularly in theatre and on television. His theatre credits include: Tartuffe, Babes in the Wood and The Odyssey for the Malthouse, The Madwoman of Chaillot, Urinetown, Things we do for love, Man the Balloon and  Blabbermouth for MTC, Chilling and Killing my Annabel Lee, Waking Eve and Competitive Tenderness for Playbox and Navigating for STC. His television credits include: City Homicide, All Saints, Micallef Tonight, The Micallef P(r)ogram(me), Marshall Law, Blue Heelers,Seachange, Pig's Breakfast, Full Frontal and Critical Mass. 

Ingrid Weisfelt

Ingrid has worked as a performer, movement teacher, directors’ assistant and choreographer throughout Australia and Europe. She has worked with Meryl Tankard’s Australian Dance Theatre, TanzTheater Basel, Vienna International Arts Festival, Steirischer Herbst Festival Graz, ChamberMade Opera, Kage Physical Theatre, Not Yet It’s Difficult, Chunky Move, Opera Australia, Opera Victoria, Red Stitch Actors Theatre, and Schauspielhaus Koeln. Ingrid is a certified Feldenkrais practitioner.