Diploma · Initial professional preparation
Theatre Arts - Performance (P104)
George Brown Polytechnic - School of Media and Performing Arts (Theatre and Acting for Media) · Distillery District, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Award
- Ontario College Advanced Diploma
- Audience & level
- Adults
- Format
- In person3 years (6 semesters)
- Price
- CA$4,702whole program
About this program
Three-year full-time conservatory-style actor training programme at the Young Centre for the Performing Arts in Toronto's Distillery District, leading to an Ontario College Advanced Diploma.
- Offering
- Conservatory / diploma training
- Fields
- Theatre acting, Voice & speech, Movement
- Purpose
- Initial professional preparation
- Teaching language
- English
Qualification and recognition
- Qualification
- Diploma
- Exact award
- Ontario College Advanced Diploma
- Award status
- Vocational qualificationA vocational qualification listed in a national system or issued by a national awarding body.
- Awarding body
- Not stated on the pages we checked
Stated by the schoolACTRA and UDAQuality mark
Scope not stated in the source.
Structure and schedule
- Duration
- 3 years (6 semesters)
- Delivery
- In personTaught at the listed teaching location.
- Physical attendance
- Regular physical attendance
- Schedule
- Full-time
- Course dates
- Starting Months: September
- Teaching location
- Young Centre for the Performing Arts
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Admissions and auditions
Audition required
- Monologues
- Two contrasting memorized monologues (one classical 1575-1700, one contemporary after 1900), each at most 1½ minutes, from published plays; plus one unaccompanied memorized song.
- In-person audition
- Yes
- Audition detail
- Auditions take place February through May each year for the program's September start date.
- Intakes
- September
- Official instructions
- Application and audition instructions
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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.
| Item | Amount | Applies to | Dated |
|---|---|---|---|
| Domestic tuition (program page figure)Tuition · mandatory | CA$4,702whole program | Domestic students | 16 October 2026SourceSource could not be re-checked automatically. |
| International tuition (program page figure)Tuition · mandatory | CA$19,534whole program | International students | 16 October 2026SourceSource could not be re-checked automatically. |
| Audition feeAudition fee · mandatory | CA$50one-time | All students | 16 October 2026SourceSource could not be re-checked automatically. |
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.
- Showcase
- Yes
- Who takes part
- Semester 5 includes Showcase Performance I.
- Career support
- Final-year mentorship with a seasoned theatre practitioner.
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)