I'm ready to apply
Save course for later
Send me a PDF copy
I want more infoHow to audition
Want to submit a winning audition? These tips and hints from our acting students will help you set yourself up for audition success.
Real student perspectives
Hear from our students as they discuss their experience studying acting at QUT, and why it was the perfect choice for them.
Leading acting facilities
See where the magic happens as our students bring stories to life on stage and screen.
Preparing to study acting
Dr Andrea Moore from our School of Creative Practice discusses the benefits of studying acting at QUT and what it takes to be 'real world' ready.
Acting studio virtual tour
Take a tour of one of our multi-purpose rehearsals and performance studios.
World-class facilities
Our state-of-the-art Creative Industries facilities are one of the reasons why QUT is one of the leading acting schools in Australia.
Real graduate
Wayne Blair, award winning director and actor shot to international attention with the hit movie 'The Sapphires'. The film received a 10 minute standing ovation at Cannes and won 11 AACTA Awards, along with six international awards for Wayne's direction.
How to audition
Want to submit a winning audition? These tips and hints from our acting students will help you set yourself up for audition success.
Real student perspectives
Hear from our students as they discuss their experience studying acting at QUT, and why it was the perfect choice for them.
Leading acting facilities
See where the magic happens as our students bring stories to life on stage and screen.
Preparing to study acting
Dr Andrea Moore from our School of Creative Practice discusses the benefits of studying acting at QUT and what it takes to be 'real world' ready.
Acting studio virtual tour
Take a tour of one of our multi-purpose rehearsals and performance studios.
World-class facilities
Our state-of-the-art Creative Industries facilities are one of the reasons why QUT is one of the leading acting schools in Australia.
Real graduate
Wayne Blair, award winning director and actor shot to international attention with the hit movie 'The Sapphires'. The film received a 10 minute standing ovation at Cannes and won 11 AACTA Awards, along with six international awards for Wayne's direction.
Highlights
Studying acting at QUT is an intensive and challenging three year degree offering comprehensive training in screen and stage acting in a supportive and inclusive environment.
- Specialist study of acting for film, television, screen, and digital streaming sectors.
- Acquire creative leadership, directing, and scriptwriting skills to help develop the vision for specific screen and stage productions, and for the screen and stage industries as a whole.
- Opportunities to work with Australia’s leading voice and movement coaches and directors.
- Graduate with the entrepreneurial skills required to promote yourself, your showreel, and your capacity to contribute to the industry nationally and internationally.
Highlights
- Specialist study of acting for film, television, screen, and digital streaming sectors.
- Acquire creative leadership, directing, and scriptwriting skills to help develop the vision for specific screen and stage productions, and for the screen and stage industries as a whole.
- Opportunities to work with Australia’s leading voice and movement coaches and directors.
- Graduate with the entrepreneurial skills required to promote yourself, your showreel, and your capacity to contribute to the industry nationally and internationally.
Why choose this course?
If your ambition is to build a sustainable career across film, television, screen, emerging media sectors, and stage then this course offers you the range of learning, training and performance opportunities you need. Your passion is shared by your fellow students and by your teachers who continue to pursue successful careers in film, television and live performance.
The course is exhilarating, demanding and life changing, and is a full-time commitment physically, mentally and emotionally. You will receive extensive training in voice, speech production, physical expressivity, character, acting methodologies, script analysis, local and international film and television industries and theatre. With a strong focus on wellbeing you will learn in an inclusive and supportive environment.
Since film, television, screen, and theatre industries need a diversity of skilled young actors, we welcome applications from aspiring actors of all backgrounds via audition.
Real-world learning
Specialised screen training, small group sizes and superb facilities give QUT acting graduates a distinctive edge. Professional film crews will assist you on your shoots, and you’ll have opportunities to work with professional directors and designers of national standing.
You will have the opportunity to learn creative leadership, directing and scriptwriting to develop the skills needed to excel in an industry where entrepreneurial production across a diverse range of newly emergent media environments is an increasingly prominent part of actors’ career pathways.
You will learn in state of the art facilities including sprung floor dance studios, light filled drama studios and all-purpose black box studios. Working within the Creative Industries precinct you will also have access to television studios, music and voice recording studios, and a range of different performance spaces. You will collaborate with other creatives who are also learning, producing their own new screen works, events, and exhibitions, and showcasing their talents across a wide range of artforms, in this vibrant working environment.
Visit the student and graduate blog to find out more about what it’s like to study fine arts and where a QUT degree can take you.
Learn from the best
Your teachers are working in film, television and live performance. They’re pursuing their own successful careers and love to share their own professional insights and tips as they mentor you and help you to find your own path onto the stage and screen.
Strong links with industry mean you will graduate with contacts and networking skills.
Explore this course
You will undertake three years of dedicated training, developing your craft, and graduating with the skills to work in highly diversified sector with career pathways in screen, stage, and beyond. You will begin from the first year, exploring your own creative identity and understanding of creative practice, as well as training in acting skills, including movement, voice, speech production, physical expressivity, character, acting methodologies, and script analysis.
As your course progresses you will continue to refine your acting skills, and your creative leadership skills, as well as having the option to include complementary studies across areas including drama, film, writing, media, and marketing. These studies will increase your entrepreneurial knowledge, and provide greater flexibility of employment in a rapidly changing industry.
Your final year presents opportunities to work on collaborative projects, developing and demonstrating real world skills in working with other creative practitioners and showcasing these skills to the stage, screen, and emerging media industries you are about to graduate into. You will graduate confident in your abilities as an actor, and as a creative leader working both independently and collaboratively to produce, promote, and generate audience excitement about your screen and stage performances, throughout the course of your career.
Careers and outcomes
Graduates work nationally and internationally as actors for film, television and stage. They have won leading roles in national and state theatre companies, television series, mini-series and feature films. Notable graduates include:
- Wayne Blair - Director of The Sapphires; writing team/director/actor in Redfern Now; The Last Time I Saw Michael Gregg; Blessed; Mullet; True West, Sydney Theatre Company; Jesus Hopped the A Train, Company B Belvoir; Othello, Bell Shakespeare; The Sapphires, Belvoir St Theatre; and Run Rabbit Run, Company B.
- Gigi Edgley - Family Matters, Final Frontier, Last Train to Freo and Newcastle. Rescue: Special Ops, Starter Wife and Stingers
- Gyton Grantley - Logie for best actor, Underbelly. Also CSI: New York, Fairly Legal, House Husbands. Films include Prime Mover, The Reef, Balibo and Beneath Hill 60. Stage: South Pacific.
- Tai Hara - Home and Away and Dancing with the Stars
- Josh Helman - The Pacific, Animal Kingdom and Jack Reacher
- Anna McGahan - Rake, Underbelly, House Husbands and ANZAC Girls.
- Adrienne Pickering - The Reef, The Clinic, Final Call and Candy. ABC’s Rake, All Saints, Out of The Blue and Secrets and Lies. Stage work includes Ruben Guthrie, Company B Belvoir.
- Alec Snow - Home and Away, lead singer for his band Interim.
- Michael Dorman - Wonderland, Daybreakers and Wild Boys. The Secret Life of Us, Sea Patrol, Rescue: Special Ops and the ABC’s Serangoon Road.
- Conrad Coleby - Sea Patrol, Home and Away, All Saints, Headland, Water Rats and Always Greener. Stage includes The Glass Menagerie, Queensland Theatre Company; South Pacific, The Club, Sydney Theatre Company.
- Brenton Thwaites - SLIDE, Blue Lagoon, Maleficent and Titans.
- Ruben Guthrie - Pirates of the Caribbean
- Sophie Dillman - Home and Away
- Alison McGirr - Ladies in Black
Possible careers
- Actor
- Artist
- Casting director/agent
- Drama teacher
- Festival director
- Film composer
- Film/television director
- Film/television scriptwriter
- Playwright
- Producer
- Theatre director
- Youth/community arts facilitator
Your course
To meet the course requirements of the Bachelor of Fine Arts (Acting), you must complete the following:
- Two common units (KYB101 and KYB102) – 24 credit points
- Acting major – 168 credit points
- Complementary studies – 48 credit points from the Situated Creative Practice Extension plus 48 credit points chosen from a minor or unit options (electives).
Year 1
- begin developing and mastering the voice, movement, presence, representation, storytelling and dynamic physical transformation techniques that will underpin your work as an actor in screen and stage contexts
- train in a range of acting styles, including both realistic acting styles driven by emotion-awareness, authenticity, and imagination, and comic acting styles driven by play, improvisation, and interaction with fellow actors and audience
- explore approaches, methods, and techniques to harness your own unique expressive capabilities
- investigate your creative identity, your desired future in the creative industries, and how you can open up new pathways for yourself as an actor in stage, screen, and newly emergent media contexts in this exciting and constantly evolving sector
Year 2
- continue mastering your voice, movement, acting, and storytelling skills
- apply your acting skills in a range of screen and stage rehearsal and production settings
- develop the ability to work collaboratively with producers, directors, writers, and a range of other creatives to achieve a specific artistic vision, in a specific setting, for a specific audience
- learn how to assess the quality of screen or stage performance works, and develop, write, and direct your own works
- enhance your employability with complementary studies in drama, film, writing, media, marketing, or a range of other areas
Year 3
- apply your acting skills, and your creative leadership skills, in professional standard stage, screen, or digital streaming sector projects
- learn and practise self-tape and audition techniques
- learn to promote, disseminate, and create positive perception of yourself and your work amongst agents, directors, producers, and other industry professionals, spectators, and the public at large
- research your career path, including people, platforms, networks, and publics that will be critical in positioning you for success in your desired post-graduation path
- showcase your skills to the stage, screen, and emerging media industries you are about to graduate into
Your course
To meet the course requirements of the Bachelor of Fine Arts (Acting), you must complete the following:
- Two common units (KYB101 and KYB102) – 24 credit points
- Acting major – 168 credit points
- Complementary studies – 48 credit points from the Situated Creative Practice Extension plus 48 credit points chosen from a minor or unit options (electives).
Year 1
- begin developing and mastering the voice, movement, presence, representation, storytelling and dynamic physical transformation techniques that will underpin your work as an actor in screen and stage contexts
- train in a range of acting styles, including both realistic acting styles driven by emotion-awareness, authenticity, and imagination, and comic acting styles driven by play, improvisation, and interaction with fellow actors and audience
- explore approaches, methods, and techniques to harness your own unique expressive capabilities
- investigate your creative identity, your desired future in the creative industries, and how you can open up new pathways for yourself as an actor in stage, screen, and newly emergent media contexts in this exciting and constantly evolving sector
Year 2
- continue mastering your voice, movement, acting, and storytelling skills
- apply your acting skills in a range of screen and stage rehearsal and production settings
- develop the ability to work collaboratively with producers, directors, writers, and a range of other creatives to achieve a specific artistic vision, in a specific setting, for a specific audience
- learn how to assess the quality of screen or stage performance works, and develop, write, and direct your own works
- enhance your employability with complementary studies in drama, film, writing, media, marketing, or a range of other areas
Year 3
- apply your acting skills, and your creative leadership skills, in professional standard stage, screen, or digital streaming sector projects
- learn and practise self-tape and audition techniques
- learn to promote, disseminate, and create positive perception of yourself and your work amongst agents, directors, producers, and other industry professionals, spectators, and the public at large
- research your career path, including people, platforms, networks, and publics that will be critical in positioning you for success in your desired post-graduation path
- showcase your skills to the stage, screen, and emerging media industries you are about to graduate into
- Additional entry requirements
- Yes
- Additional entry requirements
- Yes
Selection is based on additional entry requirements only. Please refer to Requirements.
- Course code
- KK34
- QTAC code
- 421912
- CRICOS code
- 056185A
-
- Kelvin Grove
-
- Kelvin Grove
- 3 years full-time
- 3 years full-time
- February
- February
Assumed knowledge
Before you start this course, we assume you have sound knowledge of the subject/s listed below. If you don't have the subject knowledge, you can still apply for the course but we strongly encourage you to undertake bridging studies to gain the knowledge:
- English, or Literature, or English and Literature Extension, or English as an Additional Language (Units 3 & 4, C)
Prerequisites/Additional entry requirements
You must complete a successful audition.
Important dates
- Thursday 1 August 2024
QTAC applications, change of major or minor form and the QUT online registration form opens.
- 5pm Monday 23 September 2024 (Brisbane time)
All applications and application forms close. Requests for applications and registrations after this date will not be considered. Make sure you allow adequate time to complete each stage of your application before application closing time.
Please note that the audition process involves pre-recording audition and personal statement videos for the first round, and then a live audition via Zoom if you are successful in proceeding to the second round of auditions.
How to apply
Step 1
Apply through QTAC.
Current KK34 Bachelor of Fine Arts single degree students changing major must instead submit a change of major or minor form.
Step 2
Complete the QUT online registration form. You must have a valid QTAC number or current QUT student ID number to complete this step.
As part of the application process, you will be required to submit the following:
- supporting documentation
- two audition video YouTube links
- one personal statement YouTube link.
You must pay the non-refundable $75 application service fee via QUTPay. If you're applying via the Educational Access Scheme or the Centralised Assessment Selection Program, you are exempt from the fee.
Your application is complete once you reach the confirmation notice screen and receive your confirmation email.
Step 3
Your video audition will then be assessed. You will be contacted in early October via the email address provided on your application if you have been successful in proceeding to a recall audition. Recall auditions will be conducted via Zoom in early October.
Supporting documentation
When submitting your online application, you will be required to upload your supporting documentation. This should include:
- a CV of no more than two pages, outlining both formal and informal learning and experiences in the field of acting
- a headshot or passport photo.
Please upload your supporting documentation as one combined file only.
Application preparation
Acting application preparation (PDF file, 1.26 KB)
Acting audition pieces (PDF file, 2.01 KB)
Recall auditions
If your audition is successful, you'll be required to attend a recall audition via Zoom. We will provide the Zoom meeting IDs in the recall audition email.
Recall auditions will be conducted in early October.
If you do not attend your recall audition you won't be considered for a place in the course.
Audition feedback
Due to the large number of applications received, the selection panel is unable to provide feedback to applicants.
When do I find out my audition outcome?
- QTAC applications: outcomes will be viewable from early November. The majority of offers will be made in mid-November and final offers prior to Christmas
- change of major or minor applications: if you have been recalled you will receive notification on your application outcome by no later than early January
Selection process
To be considered for an offer you need to:
- Pass the audition
- Have a competitive audition score
Advanced standing
If you have prior studies or work experience, you may be eligible for advanced standing (credit). You can apply for advanced standing once you've been accepted to QUT. If you're in your first semester of study, you must apply for advanced standing within 10 days of receiving your offer.
Deferment
You can't defer your offer in this course. You must start in the semester you apply for.
Offers we made to school leavers in Semester 1, 2023
Admission was based on additional entry requirements only.
You can find out more about your fellow students’ backgrounds with this course’s student profile.
Minimum academic requirements
Select the country where you completed your studies to see a guide to the grades you need to apply for this course.
If your country or qualification is not listed, you can still apply for this course and we will assess your eligibility.
Prerequisites
You must have a:
- successful audition in Australia;
- completed Australian Year 12 or an equivalent qualification
Important Dates
- Thursday 1 August 2024
The QUT online audition registration form opens.
- 5pm Monday 23 September 2024 (Brisbane time)
How to apply
Step 1:
Apply for this course via the QUT Application Portal.
As part of your application you must submit your supporting documents including audition videos (via YouTube links).
Supporting documents and audition videos
When submitting your application form, you will be required to submit supporting documents. This should include:
- CV of no more than two pages, outlining both formal and informal learning and experiences in the field of acting;
- headshot or passport photo;
- you will also be required to film two audition videos and one personal statement video. These videos should be uploaded to YouTube, and URL links provided with your application.
Audition videos preparation
Our online audition preparation tutorial will show you how to record your videos. When uploading videos to YouTube, be sure to set to unlisted.
Personal statement video
Record a short video (three minutes maximum) of you talking directly to the camera, responding to the questions below. Please note that there is no right or wrong answer. We want to understand a little about you.
- Who are you?
- Where do you live?
- What are you currently doing? (Are you working, or at school? If at school, which one? etc)
- What are your interests outside of acting?
- If you could change one thing in the world what would it be, and why?
- What makes you want to study acting at QUT?
- What else would you like us to know about you?
Audition videos
Acting audition pieces (PDF file, 2.01 KB)
Choose, memorise and prepare for performance, two contrasting monologues in English, of no more than three minutes per piece. By contrasting we mean two pieces that show two different characters, or aspects of yourself.
Set up your equipment to make two videos of you performing your monologues to the camera (one monologue in each video). For one of your monologues you should film yourself in a mid-shot (so we only see the upper part of your body and face). For the other monologue you should film yourself in a wide shot (so we see your whole body moving about in the space). Do not make any edits of the performances themselves other than to ensure that the lighting and sound levels are satisfactory.
Step 2:
Your audition videos will be assessed. You will be contacted in early October via the email address provided on your application if you have been successful in proceeding to a recall audition. Recall auditions will be conducted via Zoom in mid October.
Recall auditions
If your audition is successful, you will be required to attend a recall audition via Zoom. We will provide the Zoom meeting IDs in the recall audition email.
Selection criteria
In the first round, the selection panel considers your connection between body, voice, emotional accessibility and range. The panel looks for evidence of stage and screen presence and potential in addressing the possibilities of the text emotionally and intellectually.
In the recall, the selection panel considers your expressivity, screen and stage presence, believability, and ability to respond appropriately to direction. A sense of language, rhythm and a capacity for sustained concentration is also highly regarded. The selection panel considers your identification with the thought process of your text and your potential for artistic development. The panel looks for evidence of a serious commitment to an acting career in stage, film and television, enthusiasm and readiness to take on challenges and a strong work ethic.
Audition feedback
Due to the large number of applications received, the selection panel is unable to provide feedback to applicants.
Minimum English language requirements
Select the country where you completed your studies to see a guide on meeting QUT’s English language requirements.
Your scores and prior qualifications in English-speaking countries are considered. Approved English-speaking countries are Australia, Canada, England, Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland, United States of America and Wales.
If your country or qualification is not listed, you can still apply for this course and we will assess your eligibility.
We accept English language proficiency scores from the following tests. Tests must be taken no more than 2 years prior to the QUT course commencement.
| English Test | Overall | Listening | Reading | Writing | Speaking |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PTE Academic/PTE Academic Online | 58 | 50 | 50 | 50 | 50 |
|
Cambridge English Score
You must share your results with QUT through the Candidate Results Online website. |
176 | 169 | 169 | 169 | 169 |
| IELTS Academic / IELTS Online / IELTS One Skills Retake | 6.5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 |
| TOEFL iBT / Home / Paper | 79 | 16 | 16 | 21 | 18 |
Don't have the English language score you need? We can help!
We offer English language programs to improve your English and help you gain entry to this course.
When you apply for this course, we will recommend which English course you should enrol in.
Your actual fees may vary depending on which units you choose. We review fees annually, and they may be subject to increases.
2025 fees
2025: CSP fees available from September
Additional Costs
There are requirements that you will need to meet as a student in this course. Information is available from the Additional course requirements and costs website.
2025 fees
2025: Available from July
Additional Costs
There are requirements that you will need to meet as a student in this course. Information is available from the Additional course requirements and costs website.
2024 fees
2024: CSP $12,100 per year full-time (96 credit points)
Additional Costs
There are requirements that you will need to meet as a student in this course. Information is available from the Additional course requirements and costs website.
2024 fees
2024: $34,300 per year full-time (96 credit points)
Additional Costs
There are requirements that you will need to meet as a student in this course. Information is available from the Additional course requirements and costs website.
Student services and amenities fees
You may need to pay student services and amenities (SA) fees as part of your course costs.
HECS-HELP: loans to help you pay for your course fees
You may not have to pay anything upfront if you're eligible for a HECS-HELP loan.
You can apply for scholarships to help you with study and living costs.
QUT Excellence Scholarship (Academic)
QUT's premier offering for students with outstanding academic achievement.
- Scholarship eligibility
- Academic performance
QUT Real World International Scholarship
A scholarship to cover tuition fees, with eligibility based on your prior academic achievements.
- Scholarship eligibility
- Academic performance
Keep up to date
QUT courses for you
Like to save your courses?
Please enter your first name and email so we can save your courses for you