Advanced Acting & Performance Course

Looking to become a professional actor? Are you already trained or experienced and want to up-skill your acting and perform in an agency attended show? 

You’ll love this course if you are ready to step up, stand out and start working professionally.

* Our current term is FULL.

Good News! We are now enrolling for 2025…

FEBRUARY 2025

Advanced Acting & Performance Course (Face-to-Face)

Dates: Thursday 20th February 2025 - Thursday 15th May 2025(running every Thursday with performance on Friday 16th May 2025).

Times: 8pm - 10pm

Location: Augustine United Church (Studio/Theatre), 41 George IV Bridge, Edinburgh EH1 1EL

Important Dates: Performance is scheduled for Friday 16th May 2025.

Cost: £495

Entry by audition only unless you have trained with us before at this level. Plays will be confirmed around week 3 of class.

If you want to become a professional actor or take your acting more seriously, then this is the course for you.

All students are screened first so we can be sure they meet the demands of the course and achieve the necessary standard required.

Therefore entry is by audition only.

You’ll work with industry leading, professional and award winning directors. In previous terms this has included Clare Cairns (Founder and Director of Acting Out), John Mitchell (former associate director of the Traverse Theatre), Paul Bianchi (award-winning performer, writer and director from Hollywood) and James Beagon (multi- award winning playwright and director) to name but a few.

You’ll focus on methods from highly regarded experts such as Stanislavski, Michael Chekhov, Adler, Hagen, Strasberg, Meisner, Mamet and many other different Theatre Art Forms.

You will also be casted and directed in an end of term public performance which agents are invited to.

After this, you’ll receive valuable, individual feedback on your Acting by your expert Acting Coach.

Plus offered Pathways and Guidance to progressing towards the Professional Industry.

Terms vary depending on the expert coach, the director, the students and the objective set for each term.

As each term is different students enrol term after term, making places very competitive.

Here’s Exactly What You’ll Get:

✅  Training and Performing with expert, professional directors and acting coaches who guide your acting journey and experience

✅  2 Hours per week of intensive class time, plus moderate homework (average completion time of 45 mins per week per student)

✅  Free Membership to the Professional Performance Association while training with us

✅ A Certified Course with Education Scotland (CPD PLFind) *

✅  You’ll get an optional NUS Student Card **

✅ You’ll be auditioned, casted and directed in a full length Public Performance in the Theatre (or online for online specific courses)

✅  You’ll learn and practice advanced and professional levels of acting methods from highly regarded experts (such as Stanislavski, Chekhov, Uta Hagen, Adler, Hagen, Strasberg, Meisner, Mamet and more) ***

✅  You’ll discover the power, skill and fun of different methods and acting skills, from improvisation to characterisation.

✅ You’ll work on both classical and contemporary scripts ranging from tragedy to comedy (depending on which term you enrol and what we are covering).

✅ You’ll learn the skills needed to bridge you up for professional acting and performing

✅  You’ll increase your confidence in performance and everyday life

✅  You’ll explore and practice scene and script work with other advanced students and your professional director

✅  You’ll learn how to work with a professional director in professional setup and how to take his/her guidance (essential if you wish to become a professional performer).

✅  You’ll get directed by a professional and expert acting and directing coach, who can help improve your skill and how you come across

✅  You’ll get more creative and spark your imagination by freeing up those normal adult restrictions and belief systems

✅  You’ll walk away with individual feedback on your ability, progress, talent and your performance delivery.

✅  You’ll get our honest advice with options on future opportunities to continue your training with us (and beyond)

✅ You’ll get optional casting opportunities through the Professional Performance Association and in class.

✅ If you book your spot early enough, you’ll get offered manageable payment plans to help spread the cost. These are all show when you click the “ENROL” button below.

 
 * There is an optional fee for a digital certificate for proof of the certification of this particular course ** NUS Cards are Payable to NUS *** Content varies each term and is not restricted to these mentioned. Therefore you can cover one, all or none of these mentioned practitioners and approaches. The play is also subject to change, although we will do our best to keep it as it is stated. The coach may also vary from term to term.

If you have already studied with us at this level before, you are free to enrol without audition.

Once you’ve signed up for an audition, you’ll get an automatic email with all the details of how you can audition.

Normally you are required to perform via self-tape methods (from memory and in character) one monologue, lasting no more than 90 seconds, either classical (preferably by Shakespeare and in verse) OR a contemporary. You then answer a few set questions. The automatic email you receive once you have applied will give you full details.

We will be looking for clear evidence of the abilities required for the course, evidence of practical and intellectual skills necessary for the nature of this course, and personal qualities that would contribute to the class and the school. 

Decisions for audition outcomes are normally made at the end of each month. We do not offer feedback on auditions.

Once you have successfully passed your audition, you can enrol.

You will then have 1-2 further casting auditions with the director of the show (and potentially other members of the cast/class).

You are guaranteed a part because you have enrolled onto the term. Your part depends on the success of your class casting auditions. As you may expect, in some terms you may have a larger role than in others. We will do our best to give you a chance to shine on stage but this may take a few performances and more training before you are given a larger or more challenging role.

📣 We aim to run all our face to face classes in our venues but if our venues close due to government restrictions, lockdowns or circumstances out-with our control, we’ll go online and return to venues when it’s safe to do so.  Online sessions will be recorded, so if you can’t show up on the day, you won’t miss any content. Rest assured, your health, safety and wellbeing is our top priority so we will follow the current guidelines on the appropriate dates of the course and comply with our school and venue risk assessment measures.  📣 

Payment Plans Available on this Course for early enrolments

Please note, while we have every intention of the production being what we advertise, this may change at any point in time by the discretion of the director. Additionally, content, coaches, directors or outcomes may change after you have booked.