Acting

专业详情

Attending the Columbia MFA Acting Program is making a declaration – to yourself, to us, to the world – that you will be a professional actor. In turn, we provide you with a comprehensive range of resources, a variety of techniques to explore, and a remarkable faculty from whom to learn. The vision of the Acting program is to create a consistent and clear path of training, experience, and development – from Orientation until the last performance.

We cater the program to give each person the specific guidance they need to grow and mature as an artist while hand-crafting each class to build a core company of actors. With your ensemble, you will live and breathe your art together during an intense and invigorating three-year program. Constant attention to individual progress and teaching the skills of collaboration are fundamental to the training.

The program demands of its students curiosity, imagination, a keen analytical mind, and a willingness to discover many approaches to acting. Our curriculum focuses on rigorous discipline and improvisation, and always originates from a deep exploration of the text. Students investigate classic, modern, and contemporary playwrights through scene study and acting technique under the auspices of James Calleri, Peter Jay Fernandez, and Ron Van Lieu. It is about freeing your voice, body, and mind.

The training offered at Columbia provides graduates with the tools necessary to succeed in all forms of theatre, as well as television and film.