From New York

No Child, written and performed by Nilaja Sun and directed by Hal Brooks, has earned unanimous rave reviews and awards in the USA.  After more than two years on the road, this tour-de-force performance arrived on Australian shores for the very first time last week as part of the Brisbane Festival.

Nilaja Sun is an award-winning actress and playwright who spent 8 years teaching drama in some of New York's toughest schools. 

Links:

YouTube video (check other links on this page as well)

The Washington Post review

The power of a solo performance

Nilaja Sun's No Child

Year 8

Congratulations Year 8 (Term 3) on creating exciting and colourful performances! WELL DONE! :)

Audition process

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NIDA Auditions
Every applicant to the Acting course will be given an audition to demonstrate talent and the potential to benefit from the course. All applicants must attend the audition in person. It is not possible to audition through providing a video of your presentation.

NIDA looks for people who show the potential to become good actors in the future, people who have talent but need to acquire technical skills.

Students are selected on the basis of talent, their potential to benefit from the NIDA training and their ability to contribute to the arts entertainment industry.  There are no quotas based on state of origin, gender or ethnicity. Applications from indigenous and ethnic Australians are actively encouraged.

Full-time courses

Application FAQs for NIDA



WAPA offers a large selection of courses and disciplines across our study areas, with the right balance of practical knowledge and academic excellence and a wide range of study options.

Disciplines Offered:

• Aboriginal Theatre
• Acting
• Arts Management
• Costume
• Dance
• Design
• Lighting
• Music
• Music Theatre
• Performing Arts
• Props & Scenery
• Sound
• Stage Management

Performing Arts Courses - TAFE

Griffith University - South Bank

Cirque du Soleil auditions

The key to a successful audition is PREPARATION.

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Course - How to audition successfully

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Australian actors - where to audition?

Up the Ladder

After a sell-out season of Jane Harrison's powerful and moving play Stolen in 2011, the talented students of the Aboriginal Centre for the Performing Arts (ACPA) return with their new production Up the Ladder.

This year, under the guidance of Queensland Theatre Company Artistic Director, renowned playwright and director Wesley Enoch, the ACPA students bring their own dynamic style of music, dance and acting to Roger Bennett’s animated play Up the Ladder.

An inspiring story of triumph over adversity, Up the Ladder evokes the carnival atmosphere, humour and energy of 1940s and 50s sideshows as we follow an Aboriginal man’s journey from the humble rough and tumble of post-war Australian boxing tents to a high profile professional career as a champion boxer.

This exciting new production of Up the Ladder will showcase the next generation of emerging Aboriginal and Torres Strait performing artists, share potent memories of Australia’s post-war history and provide a joyous message of redemption and reconciliation.

UP THE LADDER features more than 50 dancers, singers, actors and musicians from the Aboriginal Centre for the Performing Arts

DIRECTOR:
Directed by Wesley Enoch who is originally from Stradbroke Island (Minjeribah) and is a proud Noonuccal Nuugi man. He is the current Artistic Director of Queensland Theatre Company and a renowned director and writer for the stage. Wesley has been the Artistic Director for a number of companies including; Kooemba Jdarra Indigenous Performing Arts (1994): LITTLE WHITE DRESS (Queensland Performing Arts Centre/Out of the Box Festival), A LIFE OF GRACE AND PIETY (Just Us Theatre Ensemble) and THE 7 STAGES OF GRIEVING. Wesley became the Associate Artist for Queensland Theatre Company (1998): RADIANCE, BLACK-ED UP, THE SUNSHINE CLUB and FOUNTAINS BEYOND. His other credits in that time include: THE 7 STAGES OF GRIEVING, STOLEN (Playbox Theatre) and ROMEO AND JULIET (Bell Shakespeare). Wesley went on to then become the Resident Director at Sydney Theatre Company (2000): BLACK MEDEA, THE SUNSHINE CLUB, BLACK-ED UP, THE CHERRY PICKERS (2002 UK Tour), STOLEN and a remount of THE 7 STAGES OF GRIEVING.  He then became Artistic Director of the Ilbijerri Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Theatre Co-operative (2003): SHRUNKEN IRIS and RAINBOW'S END. As Associate Artist at Company B (2006-2008): CAPRICORNIA, PAUL, PARRAMATTA GIRLS and YIBIYUNG (with Malthouse Theatre). Other directing credits include THE DREAMERS, CONVERSATIONS WITH THE DEAD, BLACK MEDEA (with Malthouse Theatre), THE SAPPHIRES (Melbourne Theatre Company) all with Company B; EORA CROSSING (Legs on the Wall/Museum of Sydney/Sydney Festival) and RIVERLAND (Windmill Performing Arts), NARGUN AND THE STARS (Performing Lines), THE MAN FROM MUKINUPIN (Company B/Melbourne Theatre Company), ONE NIGHT, THE MOON (Malthouse Theatre), a revival of THE SAPPHIRES (Company B/Black Swan Theatre Company) and BOMBSHELLS (Queensland Theatre Company), WALTZING THE WILARRA (Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company/Perth Festival) and I AM EORA (Performing Lines/Sydney Festival).


PLAYWRIGHT:
Roger Bennett (1948 – 1997) was an Arrernte man from Central Australia, an actor, and a playwright. His best known works are Up the Ladder and Funerals and Circuses. They dealt with his life experiences, particularly the travelling boxing tents, where his father, Elley Bennett, was a boxing champion during the 1940s and ‘50s. Learn more:

Venue: Cremorne Theatre, QPAC, South Bank, Brisbane Dates: 24 to 27 Oct 2012

Year 11 "Make 'Em Laugh"

Year 11 Drama and Drama Studies students held "Make 'Em Laugh" - a comedy evening for family and friends, presenting student devised comic monologues, A VERY ENTERTAINING NIGHT!