Our programs are structured organically, allowing us to easily adapt classes and camps to the experience, goals and needs of the specific students/campers in each.
Acting is doing. Act One offers students/campers multiple amd varied performance opportunites in their respective programs.
Act One maintains its own fully equipped performance stage, with computerized lighting, sound and video, to provide students/campers with a complete performance environment.
Life is stressful enough; Act One tries not to add to it. Our registration, payment, scheduling and withdrawal policies have all been designed to make pursuing quality drama training as easy as possible.
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Check out some of our students' work.... |
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2020 Winter Cabaret Trailer |
On Camera Class Short Film Project |
The Act One School of Drama is located in Pickering, Ontario. Our vision and primary focus is on enabling and expanding the drama experience and performance opportunities for all who are interested, whether for personal or professional development goals. We offer acting training for Stage, Film, Musical Theatre, Improvisation and more, for students aged 3 to adult, in the Eastern GTA region (Toronto, Pickering, Ajax, Whtby and Oshawa, etc)
Act One has used its 25 years of experience to develop and refine its programs and policies to deliver on its vision to bringing high quality drama training and performance experience opportunities to Durham Region and the eastern GTA.
Class sizes limited to maximum of 12 (16 for Musical Theatre) to allow for increased individual student opportunity.
A key school commitment is increased one-to-one instructor-student attention.
School priority is that all students who come here do so becasue they themselves believe they will enjoy and benefit from the experience.
Our school philosophy is "no student walks through our doors unless they want to".
Students get to learn and rehearse in same space they will perform.
Classes and performance opportunities are adapted to the needs of and most beneficial challenges for each student.
We offer a wide range of drama programs year-round, for ages 3 to adult, in classroom, camp and individual coachng formats, in a fully-equipped theatrical facility.
We offer a range of classes and developement paths for ages 3 to adult in Stage Theatre, Musical Theatre, Film&TV, Improvisation and more. Students explore drama in a fully equipped performance studio and stage environment.
This class is offered for students who wish to gain confidence and comfort with the movement aspects of Musical Theatre. Please note this is NOT a formal "dance" class. It is geared primarily for those students who have little to no formal dance training but wish to enhance their Musical Theatre performance range or those who do not wish to pursue a formal dance class format.
We offer four 2-week immersive camp sessions for ages 5-14. Sessions feature play and short film creation, improvisation workshops, mask and puppet theatre, and more.
We offer a 5-day session that features a fun-filled week of theatre games and exploration, leading towards the campers' Friday performance of the material they create during the week.
We offer private, individual vocal lessons for those interested in developing their singing confidence and ability. Lessons are flexible and students have at least two optional performance opportunities during the year to put their efforts to the test.
We offer one-on-one instruction for those interested in more individualized performance training or seeking assistance with audition preparation or current role development.
For Grade Eight students seeking to be accepted to Arts-Focused high school programs, we offer assistance with audition preparation for the acting (ie monologue) and vocal components.
For those times when our facility is not required for Act One's school programs, we make our facility and its performance resources available for local performers and other organizations that may be seeking an inexpensive performance location.
Act One's team of instructors and camp counsellors combines a unique and positive blend of maturity and youth with a wide spectrum of experience in film, television and stage performance, production, writing and education..
Here are a few of the staff.....
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