From Stage to Screen:
The Complete Screen Acting Certificate
Drama, Comedy, Commercial and Voice - for Stage-Trained Performers
You already own the instrument. The camera asks for a different calibration of it - not a smaller one. In twelve weeks you build the four registers the casting market pays for, and leave with a complete casting portfolio, made by your own hands, anywhere in the world.
3-Month
Distance learning
11 Artifacts
Assembled into one casting hub
Weekly
Written tutor feedback
The Premise
The camera is not the enemy of the theater. It is a different kind of spectator.
A trained actor steps in front of a camera and discovers that everything they know is true - and insufficient. The body that filled a five-hundred-seat house now overflows a frame measured in inches. The voice that reached the last row now sits four inches from a microphone that hears breath, thought, hesitation.
The instrument is the same. The calibration is different. This spectator sits closer, sees more, and forgives less. Learning to perform for it is not a betrayal of your stage training. It is its extension - and today, it is one of the most practical ways to make that training visible to the screen and voice markets.
The Complete Screen Acting Certificate does not teach you to act. You already act. It teaches your trained instrument to read on camera, on microphone, and on the screens where casting decisions are actually made.
The Argument
Range becomes useful when it is documented clearly.
A casting director does not hire a category. A casting director hires a solution to today's problem - and today's problem changes daily. The performer whose portfolio proves four registers competes in four markets. The performer with one drama reel competes in one.
WEEKS 01-04
Drama
The close-up as a theater of thought. Eyeline, microphone intimacy, the audition scene under a 48-hour clock - and your performance through the editor's eyes.
WEEKS 07-08
Commercial
The largest screen market most theater-trained actors never enter. Lifestyle, presenter, and corporate registers - performed authenticity as craft, not compromise.
WEEKS 05-06
Comedy
Comic timing without an audience. The beat, the deadpan, the micro-reaction as punchline - rhythm engineered for a silent room and an unblinking lens.
WEEKS 09-10
Voice
The global, remote-native voice market: commercial reads, narration, e-learning, ADR, and character voices built from the body outward.
Curriculum
Twelve weeks. Five blocks. Eleven artifacts.
Every week delivers a written lecture, a practicum, and a portfolio deliverable that receives written tutor feedback within the weekly cycle. Nothing is theoretical that can be practical. Every portfolio artifact is built, reviewed, and revised against a professional submission standard.
Block I - The Dramatic Foundation
Week 1: The Camera as Spectator How the camera perceives: scale, economy of expression, the visibility of thought. Building a self-tape studio in a domestic room — light, sound, lens height. The 2026 international casting landscape. Deliverable: studio verification tape + portfolio architecture plan
Week 2: Voice for the Microphone, Thought for the Lens Vocal technique rebuilt for close-mic conditions: texture instead of volume, breath the camera hears. The eyeline as relationship, not rule. Script analysis for the close-up. Deliverable: dramatic monologue self-tape
Week 3: The Scene and the Invisible Partner Directing your reader. Breaking down audition sides under a 24-hour clock: the three-pass protocol and the single visible pivot. Slating, take selection, submission etiquette. Deliverable: dialogue scene self-tape under a simulated 48-hour audition window
Week 4: The Editor's Eyes What happens to your performance after you stop acting. Editing from the actor's side of the table: the cut, color as mood, export discipline — and an honest look at AI-assisted tools. Deliverable: edited, color-graded "hero" scene + editorial note
Block II - Comedy on Camera
Week 5: Comic Timing Without an Audience There is no laugh to ride. Screen comedy as constructed rhythm: the beat, the pause that trusts the viewer, the deadpan as the camera's native comic register. Full commitment as technique. Deliverable: comedic monologue self-tape
Week 7: The Comedic Scene Give and take at twenty-four frames per second. Listening as the visible event, the game of the scene, energy management with an off-camera reader. Deliverable: comedic dialogue scene self-tape
Block III - The Commercial Market
Week 8: The Commercial Frame Being yourself, professionally. The commercial typology — lifestyle, presenter, character, corporate — and the craft of performed authenticity. The commercial slate as a genre of its own. Deliverable: commercial slate + lifestyle self-tape
Week 9: The Corporate Register The invisible giant: corporate, e-learning, explainer. Direct address, the teleprompter and its disciplines, making text you didn't write sound inhabited. Deliverable: corporate presenter self-tape
Block IV - The Voice
Week 9: Voice-Over: The Instrument Alone The body disappears from the product but not from the process. Microphone technique, the home voice booth, and the three pillars of entry-level VO income: commercial, narration, e-learning. Deliverable: three-genre voice-over demo
Week 10: ADR, Dubbing, and the Character Voice Synchronizing with a world you didn't make. Sync technique, dubbing across languages, and character voices built from physical center — sustainable for a four-hour session. Deliverable: ADR exercise + character voice demo
Block V - The Portfolio
Week 11: The Showreel as Dramaturgy + Sixty seconds that argue for you. The opening fifteen seconds as the entire first act; sequencing for contrast; structured peer review of every reel before a single cut is made. Deliverable: 60–90 second showreel
Week 12: Capstone - The Complete Package The architecture of a thirty-second decision. A friction-free digital hub designed backwards from the casting professional who will view it on a phone, between two other tasks. Deliverable: the complete Screen-Ready Portfolio, submitted for NIPAI certification
The Programme
From chaos to method.
The Complete Screen Acting Certificate gives you a complete, transferable system - rooted in the great traditions of physical theatre and adapted to the realities of your rehearsal room today.
Weekly live mentoring sessions
Direct feedback from your mentor on exercises you apply with your own group in your own rehearsal space.
A smartphone is enough to begin
The course is built for domestic conditions. Total equipment investment beyond a smartphone: typically under €200 - and every piece of it remains the working infrastructure of your professional life.
100% online - zero travel
The only fully remote programme of its kind. You learn the method; you apply it live, with your group, in your room.
Who This Is For
Trained performers entering the screen market.
International actors, physical theater practitioners, dancers, and graduates of theater academies and conservatoires. No prior on-camera experience is required. What is required: a trained body, a trained voice, and the discipline to work independently to deadline.
The course bridges directly from existing stage technique. For working actors, it compresses years of trial-and-error into twelve structured weeks.
01
Stage Actors
Stage actors converting theatrical training into screen-market currency
03
Recent Graduates
Recent graduates who left training with technique but without a casting package
02
Physical Performers & Dancers
Physical performers and dancers adding camera, voice, and self-tape skills to an embodied practice
04
Working Professionals
Working professionals whose materials no longer compete at the international standard
The Result
You leave with a complete casting package. Not a certificate of attendance.
Eleven artifacts, built week by week, assembled in Week 12 into a unified digital hub - organized the way casting professionals actually view material.
01
Professional self-produced headshot set with casting-type rationale
02
Industry-formatted CV
03
Dramatic monologue self-tape
04
Dialogue scene self-tape, edited and color-graded
05
Comedic monologue self-tape
06
Comedic dialogue scene self-tape
07
Commercial slate, lifestyle self-tape, and vertical UGC variant
08
Corporate presenter self-tape
09
Voice-over demo in three genres
10
ADR exercise and character voice demo
11
Showreel, 60-90 seconds, with deliberate dramaturgical structure
Tuition
Programme Fee: €1,950
This covers 3 months of structured training in camera, microphone, and portfolio work, weekly assignments with individual tutor feedback, and practical tools you apply immediately to self-tapes, voice recordings, commercial auditions, and digital casting submissions.
Most actors are expected to enter the screen market with materials they were never trained to produce. The Complete Screen Acting Certificate gives you 12 weeks of focused, mentored work on that missing bridge: turning your existing performance training into a complete screen and voice portfolio.
Applications now open · 2026 Cohort
Stop sending one reel to every market.
Build the portfolio each market actually needs.
12 weeks. 11 portfolio artifacts. Five performance formats - drama, comedy, commercial, presenter, and voice - assembled into one professional casting hub.
Places are limited · Instalment plans available · Applications reviewed individually
Questions
Before you apply
Do I need acting experience to enroll?
You need a trained instrument - formal or professional training in acting, physical theater, or dance. The course does not teach acting from zero; it converts existing performance training into screen skills. No prior on-camera experience is required.
What equipment do I need?
To begin: a smartphone, a stable support, a neutral background, one movable light source, and a quiet room - clear phone audio is acceptable for Week 1. From Week 2, an external microphone (a wired lavalier is enough) is the recommended course standard; from Week 9, a USB condenser microphone is strongly recommended for voice work. Free editing software throughout.
How much time does the course take each week?
Plan for 8-10 hours weekly: reading the lecture, completing the practicum, and producing the deliverable. The schedule is asynchronous - you choose when within each week - but deadlines are real, because deadline discipline is part of the curriculum.
What do I receive on completion?
A NIPAI Professional Certificate with a summative written assessment - and, more importantly, a professional submission-ready screen and voice portfolio: eleven artifacts, made by your own hands, assembled in Week 12 into one digital casting hub. The hub is the clean professional link you control - it complements the market-specific casting platforms (Spotlight, Casting Networks, Actors Access, and their regional equivalents) where those are required, rather than replacing them.