Applied Creative Arts Thompson Rivers University

Overview

For more than 25 years, Thompson Rivers University’ve offered a full range of university-level theatre and creative writing courses where imagination, creativity, collaboration and discipline come together. Hone your skills through a wide variety of projects. Write the script, direct it or perform in it as part of the Directors Festival, the final show of the Actors Workshop Theatre season in the Applied Creative Arts programme.

From first to fourth year levels, acting, writing, directing, theatre history and technical theatre courses offer you a full range of options linked to both the Bachelor of Arts and the Bachelor of Education degrees. In addition, you can acquire credit through participation in several major high-calibre productions staged by our department each year.

Set the stage and find your voice

• Learn from accomplished industry professionals, with hands-on training
• Write poetry, fiction, novels, or plays
• Direct a one-act play for the Directors Festival
• Examine classic scripts and the eras in which they were written

• Comprehensively study select styles of acting from significant periods in history

Your career in theatre, rehearsal to real life

You can apply your theatre arts education to a diverse set of productions and career opportunities.

Depending on the level of work you achieve and your previous education and experience, pursue a range of options including:

• Actor
• Announcer
• Art Director
• Production Assistant
• Director
• Stage Manager
• Technical Director
• Set Designer
• Costume Designer
• Lighting Technician
• Sound Designer
• Scenic Artist
• Special Effects Technician
• Rigger
• Casting Director
• Editor
• Playwright
• Production Carpenter/Woodworker
• Interviewer
• TV/Radio Reporter, Host or Personality
• Extra
• Voice Over Artist
• Comedian
• Stunt person
• Audio-Visual Technician