Top Performing Arts Schools in Ottawa, Canada

Canada has a number of thriving performing arts institutions with esteemed alumni working on Broadway, touring theatre, local theatre, TV and film! Below, BroadwayWorld rounds up the top performing arts schools in Ottawa. Check out the list below!

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Algonquin College

Advance your craft and develop your talent for a career in performing arts.

In the one-year Performing Arts Ontario College Certificate program, you enjoy the thrill of performing and are committed to pursuing your craft to industry standards. You learn how to advance your craft while developing live and digital performance skills.

Learn the artistry of the stage and how to shine in front of an audience. Through collaboration with other performers, create unique performance pieces and perform to audiences. Learn how to audition and prepare for live and digital performances in professional studio settings.

Enhance your performance ability in:

-voice
-movement
-spoken word
-comedy
-theatre
-film
-music
-entertainment

In professional studio settings, you acquire vocal, audition, stage presence, production and on-camera techniques.

Through collaborative activities, you experience various forms of basic performance, including the development of stage presence and audience interaction.

Learn the essentials of proper breathing and voice production, as well as movement workshops, along with exercises that cultivate physical self-awareness and enable you to make better creative and enduring choices in the performing arts.

Benefit from the college experience while developing confidence in your performance skills. We work with industry to make connections that can help you achieve your future goals. You can choose to prepare for an audition, pursue a career path or apply for further education in the arts.

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University of Ottawa

Located in the heart of the National Capital's entertainment district and surrounded by major museums and art galleries, the University of Ottawa's Department of Theatre offers an intensive Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in acting program (BPT) and training in the fields of theatre studies, theatre education, theatre production and arts administration (BA, Major, Minor).

At the graduate level, the Department offers two programs: the Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in directing degree is a two-year, practical training program. The Master of Arts (MA) in Theatre Theory and Dramaturgy, offers three options for completion: with written thesis (2 years), with research-creation project (2 years) and with a major research paper (1 year).

The Department's fifteen or so professors, artists and technical staff have access to two facilities which include workshops (sets and costumes), rehearsal studios and three theatre spaces, including the almost centennial Academic Hall and the brand new LabO.

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St. Lawrence College

The Music Theatre - Performance program gives aspiring musical theatre professionals theoretical and practical training in three core disciplines of acting, singing and dance. Our faculty of experienced professionals guide students through personalized instruction and coaching, as well as courses in stagecraft, musical theatre history, music theory and audition preparation. This demanding "triple threat" program allows you to hone your skills by performing in front of audiences in studio, main stage productions and in our unique touring productions where students learn to create and produce original theatrical pieces. Our students receive mentoring from faculty and guest industry professionals to become competent and job-ready for a competitive and rapidly changing industry.

-Guest industry experts provide unique learning opportunities through workshops in specialized skills and techniques to augment the core curriculum.
-Students perform in multiple musical productions including performances at the Brockville Arts Centre, recognized as one of the finest historic theatres in Eastern Ontario.
-Our campus is situated in a safe, historic community along the St. Lawrence River with easy access to three of Canada's largest cities, Ottawa, Toronto and Montreal.

Ottawa University

The Theatre major introduces students to dramatic literature, acting, directing, design, and criticism. Theatre production is a synthesis of many art forms including creative writing, voice, movement, dance, painting, visual composition, sound, music, lighting, costume design, and set construction. Through an introduction to different theatrical styles, periods, and conventions, students can visualize and recreate playwrights' attempts to capture universal themes, conflicts, and human relationships across time, place and culture. This exercise in creative empathy and expression can help students understand themselves, others and the world community. In addition to serving as a strong liberal arts foundation, the theatre program includes main-stage productions and dramatic activities that prepare students for graduate study and professional schools or careers in stage, film or television production; theatre history, playwriting, criticism, and teaching; or theatre management, public relations, promotion, and communication.

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