Bachelor’s degree · Initial professional preparation
Acting Program - Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Theatre
Dalhousie University - Fountain School of Performing Arts (Acting) · Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Award
- BA (Honours) in Theatre
- Audience & level
- Adults
- Format
- In person4 years
- Price
- Not published
About this program
Four-year audition-based honours degree centred on studio training in acting, movement and dance, and voice and speech, with Fountain School stage productions in third and fourth year.
- Offering
- Degree program
- Fields
- Theatre acting, Voice & speech, Movement
- Purpose
- Initial professional preparation
- Teaching language
- English
Qualification and recognition
- Qualification
- Bachelor’s degree
- Exact award
- BA (Honours) in Theatre
- Award status
- Academic awardAwarded by a degree-granting institution.
- Awarding body
- Dalhousie University
Structure and schedule
- Duration
- 4 years
- Delivery
- In personTaught at the listed teaching location.
- Physical attendance
- Regular physical attendance
- Schedule
- Full-time
- Course dates
- Scholarship auditions in person February 26 and March 5, 2027
- Teaching location
- Fountain School of Performing Arts, Dalhousie Arts Centre6101 University Avenue, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4R2
Admissions and auditions
Audition required
- Monologues
- One modern monologue (20th century or later) from a published play, one piece of poetic text performed as a monologue, and one unaccompanied or self-accompanied song, each at most two minutes.
- Self-tape
- Yes
- In-person audition
- Yes
- Audition detail
- In-person audition or video submission, followed by a 10-minute follow-up teleconference interview. Entry can also be sought by auditioning at the end of first year after THEA 1801/1802.
- Interview
- 10-minute follow-up teleconference interview with the auditors.
- References
- 2 names of referees who will provide letters of reference directly to the Fountain School.
- Writing or research sample
- A one-page declaration of why you wish to study to be an actor, plus a current photo and resume.
- Deadlines
- Scholarship deadline: February 15, 2027
- Non-Scholarship deadline: April 9, 2027
- Official instructions
- Application and audition instructions
Fees
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Performance opportunities
As published by the provider. Showcases and productions are opportunities to perform; they do not guarantee agents, auditions, casting, union eligibility or work.
- Productions
- Students act in Fountain School stage productions in third and fourth year.
Sources and verification
Not published on the program’s source pages: price, 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)