PHILOSOPHY & CULTURE

A DISTINCTIVE TRAINING CHOICE

What sets this course apart:

• The Philosophy: 

ACA's Full-Time course embraces your gifts and respects your personal and artistic journey throughout your training. This is an adult environment operating from a place of mutual collaboration, respect and support. Our paradigm for learning is: high challenge matched with high support produces high performance.

• The Structure:

We have structured an original and flexible schedule that works for you. In the First & Second Year there are 3 days per week of full-time classes – 8.30am – 6.30pm, 2 days per week are spent off campus. The off campus days are used to embrace 3 essential elements: 1) Time for reflection and digestion 2) Time for quality research and preparation and 3) Time to work, to live. In Third Year you have an extra half-day of classes in areas that reflect the demands of the Industry. By maintaining a balanced and healthy life, you can avoid stresses that can accompany five days a week study and fully embrace the quality training offered. Not only that, you can actually accelerate your learning.

• The Delivery:

The WAY we learn has an absolute effect on WHAT we learn. The course program utilises learning techniques that open up possibilities within each actor and salute the very best in each individual. Peak performance is our focus through an active, dynamic and consistent learning environment, matching rigor with achievement.

• The Staff:

Dean Carey, guided by almost 3 decades of experience teaching worldwide, leads ACA. As well as being author of the renowned acting books, 'The Actor's Audition Manual' and 'Masterclass', Dean has headed NIDA and WAAPA. He has taught and directed at many other Australian acting institutions including VCA, QUT, NIMROD, Sydney Theatre Company, as well as dozens of schools across 5 countries around the world. He has gathered a team of some of the finest acting trainers who are as dedicated to the entertainment industry as they are to the art of education. Their combined passion, skill-base and love for their craft provide you with an exceptional gateway towards developing and securing your own powerful and personal acting process.

Simon Hunt heads the Full-time Acting Course as Course Director. Simon joined ACA in 2004 having worked for 15 years as an actor in the UK in various West End productions, television series and major touring productions. His addition to the team brings an international perspective, whilst his vast experience as an actor and a teacher contributes to the heart and calibre of the course.

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This course has been meticulously designed and conceived with each actor's most extensive learning outcomes and professional results as the prime consideration. We deliver a program of exceptional standing and one that many industry leaders believe sets a new standard in what is possible in acting training.