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Australia, Brisbane

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Queensland University of Technology

Australia , Brisbane

Key Facts

Program Level

Bachelor

Study Type

Full Time

Delivery

On Campus

Course Code

116069D

Campuses

Kelvin Grove

Program Language

English

Start & Deadlines

Next Intake Deadlines28-Feb-2026

Apply to this program

Go to the official application for the university

Duration 3 year(s)

Tuition Fee

AUD 39,700 / per year

Next Intake 28-Feb-2026

Bachelor of Creative Arts (Acting)

About

Highlights

Specialist study of acting for film, television, screen, and emerging digital sectors.
Acquire creative leadership, directing, and scriptwriting skills to help develop the vision for specific screen and stage productions, and for the screen and stage industries as a whole.
Opportunities to work with Australia’s leading voice and movement coaches and directors.
Flexible course options to expand your skillset with a second major, minors and/or extensions and electives.
Graduate with the entrepreneurial skills required to promote yourself, your showreel, and your capacity to contribute to the industry nationally and internationally.

If your ambition is to build a sustainable career across film, television, screen, emerging media sectors, and stage then this course offers you the range of learning, training and performance opportunities you need.

The course is exhilarating, demanding and life changing, and is a full-time commitment physically, mentally and emotionally. You will receive extensive training in voice, speech production, physical expressivity, character, acting methodologies, script analysis, local and international film and television industries and theatre. With a strong focus on wellbeing you will learn in an inclusive and supportive environment.

You will also gain an international perspective, through on-campus learning and international study experiences. This degree will build your understanding around the importance of cultural diversity, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives, in increasingly globalised creative fields.

Since film, television, screen, and theatre industries need a diversity of skilled young actors, we welcome applications from aspiring actors of all backgrounds via audition.

Tailor your acting degree for your future with a second major or a combination of other creative field majors, minors and specialised units across multiple subjects.

Requirements

Entry Requirements

Minimum academic requirements

Entry requirements

You must complete a:

successful audition; and have
completed Australian Year 12 or an equivalent qualification.

Important Dates

Monday, 1 July2024 : applications open
Monday, 5 August 2024: audition submissions open.
5pm Tuesday, 8 October 2024 (Brisbane time UTC+10): audition submissions close. No submissions can be accepted after this date.
Tuesday, 8 October 2024: final date to apply and provide all required supporting documentation, including meeting the English Language course entry requirements. Applications and/or English Language test results received after this date will not be considered.

How to apply

Step 1

Apply for this course via the QUT Application Portal.

Step 2

Create an account with Acceptd.

QUT has engaged the audition management platform Acceptd to manage the audition submission process and receive payment of the $75 submission fee*. See How to create your Acceptd Account. View Acceptd's Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.

* A non-refundable $75AUD submission fee is payable to lodge your audition.

Step 3

Go to the QUT Acceptd landing page.

Select the Bachelor of Creative Arts (Acting) Program, and submit the following audition material:

QUT Application number (or QTAC application number if you are an onshore year 12 student which will be in the format A123 456 789).
Profile photo that clearly shows your face.
Resume of no more than two pages, outlining both your formal and informal learning and your experiences in the field of acting and drama.
Monologue audition video and address to camera. See the Bachelor of Creative Arts (Acting) Audition Pieces (PDF file, 1.55 KB) for instructions about choosing a script and recording your monologue. Watch How to record your monologue.
Duologue audition video (self-tape) and address to camera. See the Bachelor of Creative Arts (Acting) Audition Pieces (PDF file, 1.55 KB) for instructions about choosing a script and recording your duologue. Watch How to record your duologue.

Audition preparation

Read the Bachelor of Creative Arts (Acting) Audition Pieces (PDF file, 1.55 KB). Follow the instructions in this document about choosing a script for your monologue and duologue. The document also contains instructions on how to make your audition videos.
Watch How to Record Your QUT Acting Audition. This short video guides you through how to record your audition videos at home.

Questions about the audition process can be directed to auditions@qut.edu.au.

How your Audition is assessed

Your audition will be reviewed by a panel of QUT academic staff with reference to the following criteria:

Believability, interest, impact
Vocal and physical expressiveness
Comprehension and communication of the script
Responsiveness to scene partner
Explanation of preparation

Audition feedback

Due to the large number of applications received, QUT is unable to provide feedback to applicants.

When do I find out my audition outcome?

Direct applicants

Audition outcomes will be issued by mid-November. To be considered for an offer you need to pass the audition and have a competitive audition score. Offers will be made in order for audition scores via the QUT Application Portal in mid-November, with final offers made by late December.

QTAC applicants

Audition outcomes will be viewable from early November via your QTAC application portal. To be considered for an offer you need to pass the audition and have a competitive audition score. From mid-November, offers will be made by QUT progressively in order of audition scores to applicants who have listed the Bachelor of Creative Arts (Acting) as their highest QUT preference.

Deferment

You can't defer your offer in this course. You must start in the semester you apply for.

Minimum English language requirements

We accept English language proficiency scores from the following tests undertaken in a secure test centre. Tests must be taken no more than 2 years prior to the QUT course commencement.

English Test	Overall	Listening	Reading	Writing	Speaking
IELTS Academic / One Skill Retake	6.5	6	6	6	6
Cambridge English Score You must share your results with QUT through the Candidate Results Online website.	176	169	169	169	169
PTE Academic	58	50	50	50	50
TOEFL iBT	79	16	16	21	18

Career

Careers and outcomes

The interdisciplinary nature of this degree will offer you multiple career pathways. Graduates of this course become actors in stage, screen, and emerging platforms, Teaching Artists or other allied industry or creative roles like a manager, facilitator, arts administrator, private arts teacher and more.

Graduates work nationally and internationally as film actors, television actors and stage actors. They have won leading roles in national and state theatre companies, television series, mini-series and feature films.

If teaching is your ambition, this course can also be followed with a graduate-entry teacher education Master of teaching courses (check the entry requirements for specific teaching courses) which enables you to become a qualified teacher.

Notable graduates include:

Mackenzie Mazur – Television: Last Days of the Space Age, I Can’t be Sorry, Boy on Fire. Film: Moja Vesna
Sisi Stringer – Television: Force of Nature: The Dry, Children of the Corn, Vampire Academy. Film: Carnifex, Mortal Kombat
Emily Weir – Home and Away and Dancing with the Stars
Tom Wilson – Television: Heartbreak High, The Newsreader, Ladies in Black, The Twelve, Latecomers, Home and Away. Theatre: Isolde and Tristan (Sport for Jove) 
Reagan Mannix – Film: The Narrow Road to the Deep North. Television: Boy Swallows Universe, Young Rock
Ethan Lwin – Television: Human Error, Troppo, Young Rock
Catherine Văn-Davies – Theatre: American Signs, Playing Beattie Bow, White Pearl (STC), A Streetcar Named Desire (Red Lone), Sex Magick (Griffin). Television: Hungry Ghosts, Amazing Grace, Barons, The Twelve, The Claremont Murders
Thea Raveneau – Film: A Savage Christmas
Wayne Blair – Television: Total Control (actor/director), Redfern Now (writing team/director/actor). Film: Top End Wedding, The Sapphires (director). Actor television: Irreverent, Aftertaste, Wakefield, The Last Time I Saw Michael Gregg, Blessed, Mullet. Film: The New Boy. Theatre: True West (STC), Jesus Hopped the A Train (Company B Belvoir), Othello (Bell Shakespeare), The Sapphires (Belvoir St Theatre), and Run Rabbit Run (Company B)
Gigi Edgley – Family Matters, Final Frontier, Last Train to Freo and Newcastle. Rescue: Special Ops, Starter Wife and Stingers
Gyton Grantley – Logie for best actor, Underbelly. Also CSI: New York, Fairly Legal, House Husbands. Films include Prime Mover, The Reef, Balibo and Beneath Hill 60. Stage: South Pacific
Tai Hara – Home and Away and Dancing with the Stars
Josh Helman – The Pacific, Animal Kingdom and Jack Reacher
Anna McGahan – Rake, Underbelly, House Husbands and ANZAC Girls
Adrienne Pickering – The Reef, The Clinic, Final Call and Candy. ABC’s Rake, All Saints, Out of The Blue and Secrets and Lies. Stage work includes Ruben Guthrie, Company B Belvoir
Alec Snow – Home and Away, lead singer for his band Interim
Michael Dorman – Wonderland, Daybreakers and Wild Boys. The Secret Life of Us, Sea Patrol, Rescue: Special Ops and the ABC’s Serangoon Road
Conrad Coleby – Sea Patrol, Home and Away, All Saints, Headland, Water Rats and Always Greener. Stage includes The Glass Menagerie, Queensland Theatre Company; South Pacific, The Club, Sydney Theatre Company
Brenton Thwaites – SLIDE, Blue Lagoon, Maleficent, Titans, Ruben Guthrie, Pirates of the Caribbean
Sophie Dillman – Home and Away
Alison McGirr – Ladies in Black, Year of 2023, Transfusion, Thirty, Who We Love