Diploma · Initial professional preparation
Diploma in Theatre Arts
Ninasam Theatre Institute · Sagar taluk, Shivamogga district, Heggodu, Karnataka, India
- Award
- Diploma in Theatre Arts
- Audience & level
- Up to age 30
- Format
- In person10 months
- Price
- ₹36,500per year, 2026-27
About this program
Ten-month residential theatre diploma at a rural theatre institute covering theory and practice of theatre, history of drama, acting, stagecraft and theatre management.
- Offering
- Conservatory / diploma training
- Fields
- Theatre acting, Actor training, Movement
- Purpose
- Initial professional preparation
- Teaching language
- Kannada
Qualification and recognition
- Qualification
- Diploma
- Exact award
- Diploma in Theatre Arts
- 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
Stated by the schoolGovernment of KarnatakaQuality mark
Scope: Recognised and aided, as stated by the institute
Structure and schedule
- Duration
- 10 months
- Delivery
- In personTaught at the listed teaching location.
- Physical attendance
- Regular physical attendance
- Schedule
- Full-timeFull-time residential course; students work between 7 am and 9.30 pm every day, with breaks
- Teaching location
- Ninasam Theatre Institute, Heggodu
Admissions and auditions
Audition required
- Self-tape
- No
- In-person audition
- Yes
- Audition detail
- Group interview with music-dance exercises, and one-to-one interview with specific questions and exercises; applicants are asked about excerpts from plays they have performed and their ability to sing, dance and play instruments.
- Interview
- Group and one-to-one interviews
- Prior education
- Minimum qualification for admission is SSLC, but graduates are preferred.
- Experience
- Candidates must have a deep interest in theatre and some experience of working in the field.
- Intakes
- 2026-27
- Deadlines
- Last date for applications to reach Ninasam: 15 June 2026 (admission for 2026-27 is closed) · this date has passed; check the current cycle
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fee towards food and stay plus exam fee (total, whole year)Tuition · mandatory | ₹36,500per year, 2026-27 | All students | 16 October 2026Source |
| Application feeApplication fee · mandatory | ₹590one-time, 2026-27 | All students | 16 October 2026Source |
| Health deposit (unspent amount returned)Deposit · mandatory | ₹3,500one-time, 2026-27 | All students | 16 October 2026Source |
Funding
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)