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Theatre Directing
Diploma Course

Next Intake: September 2023

  • Read and analyze a play

  • Formulate a plot

  • Work with your colleagues in theatre

  • Communicate with actors effectively

  • Use director’s tools to prepare actor for role

  • Be prepared for the first meeting with actors

Our teachers are accomplished and working professionals who come from unique backgrounds and experiences. They are directors, scenographers, stage designers and choreographers who have worked on dozens of international theatre projects. They all dedicated many years to the exploration of performing arts, and have become true professional experts in the field.

The core of every program​ at NIPAI is learning by doing!

What does it mean?

Program of Theatre Directing Diploma Course is developed to give you a professional and very special education, we emphasize only on the needs of directors. How to become a professional director, how to work with actors, with composers, with set designer, with costume designers, with choreographers, with producers and with theatre staff.

Learn how to:

…and much more!

! Program of Theatre Directing Diploma Course is developed to give you a professional and very special education, we emphasize only on the needs of directors. How to become a professional director, how to work with actors, with composers, with set designer, with costume designers, with choreographers, with producers and with theatre staff.

Directing job by numbers:

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24%

Projected Job Growth

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€6,400

Median monthly salary

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15,600

Openings Each Year

This course aims to give students professional specific education, special view, knowledge and tools that artistic directors should have in contemporary performance making. The course equips students with both the practical skills and the theoretical knowledge necessary to be a professional director and create one’s own performances.

The key learning objective of the program focuses on theoretical and practical tasks to help students explore:

  • how to read and analyze a play, how to formulate a plot and super-objective of the performance;

  • what theatre director should know to be prepared for the first meeting with actors;

  • how to lead actors from first meeting to performance;

  • how to work with your colleagues in theatre (composer, stage designer, others);

  • what tools should directors have to prepare actor for role;

  • how to choose and apply method of rehearsing and technique of acting;

  • postproduction of performance.

You can apply this knowledge in:

  • Theatre production

  • Puppetry

  • Classical theatre

  • Contemporary and devised theatre

  • Opera

  • Fashion industry

The Program includes:

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weeks of InClass sessions

Entry Requirements

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12 Months education

Apply Online

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30 Weeks of distant learning

Tuition Fees

As in all NIPAI programs, the one-year course emphasizes hands-on learning. Theatre Directing classes are not theoretical explorations; they are practical workshops designed to put students in the director's chair as quickly as possible.

Unable to attend an InClass session? Consider enrolling in a 18-month distance course in theater directing.

Why Us?

  • Professional growth

  • Up-to-date knowledge

  • First hand experience

  • Individual approach

  • Emphasis on practical learning

  • Unique method

Every student of Theatre Directing Diploma Course will complete their own Study Project - Graduation Performance in the theatre organization, working with actors and the crew.

All students pursuing a Diploma Course at The New International Performing Arts Institute must be proficient in English and earn a bachelor's degree (at a minimum) or an acceptable equivalent. Applicants must also submit a Creative Portfolio, more details in Entry Requirements see here.

Performance Project _ Artistic Leader S.