Bachelor of Fine Arts (Acting)

The Bachelor of Fine Arts (Acting) is a future-focused program nurturing the next generation of culturally aware actors for the international stage and screens.

The course offers intensive studio-based actor training that uses a conservatoire-style approach to prepare you to work across all areas of the profession for stage, screen and digital media, including animation and gaming.

The structure of the course allows intensive skills training and practice to take place alongside rehearsal processes and a wide variety of performance situations. With small class sizes in a studio-based environment, you will develop a creative methodology and sense of self in your artistic practice, working in concentrated workshop environments and on public productions and showings.

Breadth subjects at each year level enable you to explore cross disciplinary studies from the wider University community, accessing multi-disciplinary knowledge and skills that will build on existing knowledge or present opportunities for you to investigate and develop new interests.

You will

• Develop a command of acting skills, including body, voice, and movement
• Gain experience in acting across a broad range of performance contexts for stage and screen
• Consolidate a working methodology as an autonomous, ensemble and company actor
• Collaborate with VCA Theatre, Film and Television, and Production students throughout the course
• Develop the artistic skills to forge a successful career as an actor in the Asia Pacific and beyond.

Future pathways

Upon completion of the course, you may choose to apply for a fourth-year Honours degree. An honours year provides an intensive mode of study allowing you to master your specialisation and create a pathway into advanced graduate study options in acting.

• Completed secondary education recently (within the past two years)
• • Once the course application is submitted applicants must pay an additional administration fee and submit a supplementary application form.
  • All applicants must audition.
  • Applicants who satisfy the above requirements will be assessed to ensure they meet the minimum (academic) entry requirements of the University – completion of the VCE or a qualification deemed by the University to be equivalent and meeting the University’s English language requirement.
  • Once these academic requirements have been satisfied applicants are ranked according to the audition.

  Important Note: Applicants who wish to apply for both the Bachelor of Fine Arts (Acting), and the Bachelor of Fine Arts (Theatre), must submit a separate application for each course. You will also be required to attend separate auditions. Successful applicants will not be able to transfer between courses.

  ATAR-based admission information in Semester 1, 2024

  ATAR-based admission for the Bachelor of Fine Arts (all specialisations) (includes data also for any Bachelor of Fine Arts (all specialisations) Graduate Degree Package offers, if applicable).	ATAR
  Lowest ATAR where a recent Year 12 student offer was made (excluding students made offers through special entry schemes)	RC (Range of Criteria used for selection)
  Lowest ATAR to which an offer was made (including students made offers through special entry schemes)	RC (Range of Criteria used for selection)
  Minimum ATAR required for consideration (only applicants eligible for special entry schemes were admitted below the minimum)	RC (Range of Criteria used for selection)
  Guaranteed ATAR for applicants who completed Year 12 and were eligible for the Access Melbourne categories of rural or isolated and/or disadvantaged financial background*	N/A for this course
  Guaranteed ATAR for Indigenous applicants who completed Year 12	N/A for this course
  Guaranteed ATAR for Kwong Lee Dow Young Scholars who completed Year 12 and attended an under-represented school*	N/A for this course
  Guaranteed ATAR for Kwong Lee Dow Young Scholars who completed Year 12 and did not attend an under-represented school*	N/A for this course

  _{*All students who achieve the specified guaranteed ATAR and meet the course prerequisites will be offered a place}

  ATAR profile of those offered places in the Bachelor of Fine Arts (all specialisations) wholly or partly on the basis of ATAR in Semester 1, 2024 (includes data also for any Bachelor of Fine Arts (all specialisations) Graduate Degree Package offers, if applicable). Does not include consideration of student background and equity.

  ATAR-based offers only, across all offer rounds	ATAR
  Highest rank to receive an offer	RC (Range of Criteria used for selection)
  Median rank to receive an offer	RC (Range of Criteria used for selection)
  Lowest rank to receive an offer	RC (Range of Criteria used for selection)

• Completed some or all of a higher education qualification
• • Once the course application is submitted applicants must pay an additional administration fee and submit a supplementary application form.
  • All applicants must audition.
  • Applicants who satisfy the above requirements will be assessed to ensure they meet the minimum (academic) entry requirements of the University – completion of the VCE or a qualification deemed by the University to be equivalent and meeting the University’s English language requirement.
  • Once these academic requirements have been satisfied applicants are ranked according to the audition.

  Important Note: Applicants who wish to apply for both the Bachelor of Fine Arts (Acting), and the Bachelor of Fine Arts (Theatre), must submit a separate application for each course. You will also be required to attend separate auditions. Successful applicants will not be able to transfer between courses.

• Completed some or all of a VET qualification
• • Once the course application is submitted applicants must pay an additional administration fee and submit a supplementary application form.
  • All applicants must audition.
  • Applicants who satisfy the above requirements will be assessed to ensure they meet the minimum (academic) entry requirements of the University – completion of the VCE or a qualification deemed by the University to be equivalent and meeting the University’s English language requirement.
  • Once these academic requirements have been satisfied applicants are ranked according to the audition.

  Important Note: Applicants who wish to apply for both the Bachelor of Fine Arts (Acting), and the Bachelor of Fine Arts (Theatre), must submit a separate application for each course. You will also be required to attend separate auditions. Successful applicants will not be able to transfer between courses.

• Applicants with work and/or life experience
• • Once the course application is submitted applicants must pay an additional administration fee and submit a supplementary application form.
  • All applicants must audition.
  • Applicants who satisfy the above requirements will be assessed to ensure they meet the minimum (academic) entry requirements of the University – completion of the VCE or a qualification deemed by the University to be equivalent and meeting the University’s English language requirement.
  • Once these academic requirements have been satisfied applicants are ranked according to the audition.

  Important Note: Applicants who wish to apply for both the Bachelor of Fine Arts (Acting), and the Bachelor of Fine Arts (Theatre), must submit a separate application for each course. You will also be required to attend separate auditions. Successful applicants will not be able to transfer between courses.