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.

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This course aims to give students professional specific education, special view, knowledge and tools that artistic directors should have in contemporary performance making.

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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 core of every program​ in NIPAI is learning by doing, thus 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.

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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.

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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.