Bachelor of Fine Arts (Theatre)

The Theatre specialisation is an intensive studio-based training program for actors and theatre makers that prepares artists to become both accomplished performers and skilled devisers of their own work.

The Bachelor of Fine Arts (Theatre) course is an innovative and unique training program for theatre-makers. Throughout the course, you will develop your own voice and vision as a practising theatre maker and build your expertise across various facets of contemporary theatre practice - acting, theatre making, devising and performing in a variety of contexts and forms, writing, dramaturgy and directing, while also selecting breadth subjects from a huge range across the University to pursue your individual interests.

As a Theatre student, you will collaborate throughout the course with VCA students from other disciplines, including Acting, Writing, Directing, Dance, Interactive Composition, Production and Film & Television. You will have opportunities to engage in company residencies, immersive field trips and study tours, building on existing expertise and approaches to industry readiness for the independent artist and practitioner.

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 performance and theatre skills, including body, voice, movement, acting, devising and collaboration
• Gain experience in creating new work from a range of sources and stimuli in a variety of devising and generative contexts
• Participate in an immersive study tour or residency project
• Develop new performance work in collaboration with peers
• Consolidate a working methodology as a performer and as an ensemble company member and theatre maker.

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.