Conservatory completion award · Initial professional preparation
Acting for Stage & Screen Foundation Course (2 Term)
Bristol Old Vic Theatre School · Clifton, Bristol, England, United Kingdom
- Award
- Certificate of completion
- Audience & level
- Ages 18+
- Format
- In personTwo terms: Monday 28th September 2027 – end of March 2028
- Price
- £10,500per year, 2027-28
About this program
Two-term full-time foundation course that mirrors the school's BA and MFA training, entered by self-tape, recall audition and interview. Completion earns a school certificate, not credit or UCAS points.
- Offering
- Conservatory / diploma training
- Fields
- Actor training, Theatre acting, Screen acting
- Purpose
- Initial professional preparation
- Teaching language
- English
Qualification and recognition
- Qualification
- Conservatory completion award
- Exact award
- Certificate of completion
- Award status
- Provider-issued awardIssued by the school or studio itself. It is not an academic degree; check separately whether any authority recognises it.
- Awarding body
- Not stated on the pages we checked
Structure and schedule
- Duration
- Two terms: Monday 28th September 2027 – end of March 2028
- Delivery
- In personTaught at the listed teaching location.
- Physical attendance
- Regular physical attendance
- Schedule
- Full-timeMonday – Friday, typically 09:00—17:00, with no lessons on Wednesday afternoons
- Course dates
- Monday 28th September 2027 – end of March 2028
- Teaching location
- Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Downside Road1 – 3 Downside Road, Clifton, Bristol, BS8 2XF
Admissions and auditions
Audition required
- Monologues
- Monologue performances may be included at the recall.
- Self-tape
- Yes
- In-person audition
- Yes
- Callback
- Yes
- Audition detail
- Application form and self-tape are assessed first; a panel then invites successful applicants to an in-person recall that may include taster classes, monologues and a short informal interview.
- Interview
- Short informal interview at recall.
- Language requirements
- Overall IELTS 7.0 normally required (7.0 reading, 6.0 writing, 7.0 listening, 7.0 speaking) if English is not the first language.
- Deadlines
- Application Deadline is 1st March 2027.
- Official instructions
- Application and audition instructions
Fees
Original currency is authoritative. Each price keeps its basis (per class, per term, per year, whole program) and is never converted or added up for you.
Funding
Foundation Course Bursary (partial fee waivers) Bursary
Competitive
dependent on individual circumstances
Sources and verification
Not published on the program’s source pages: experience level.
Sources and how this was checked
Last checked 16 October 2026. Each fact carries a verbatim quote that is re-checked against the live page. Research methodology.
Sources (checked 16 October 2026)