ACTING FOCUS
NTI SEMESTER
Strengthen your acting technique and become a multi-disciplinary theater artist.
20 Credit Hours
As an NTI Semester student with an Acting Focus, you’ll study with professional artists to deepen your understanding of the craft of acting and broaden your theatrical horizons.
Courses in various acting, movement, and vocal techniques as well as exposure to a wide variety of roles in weekly Theater Labs will make you a stronger performer. Additionally, study in directing, playwriting, design, dance and choreography, stage combat, and more will mold you into a well-rounded, multi-hyphenate artist. You’ll also gain experience both writing and acting in new work in development during our Playwrights and Librettists week and through creating your ensemble’s Company Project.
By the end of your semester at NTI, you will be prepared to take the stage in classic and new works as well as your own original creations.
COURSE CREDITS
The NTI Semester Acting Focus confers credit for the following academic courses totaling 20 hours:
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Acting (NTI-300)
The National Theater Institute is not confined to any one method; it embraces those appropriate to the individual text. Emphasis on the art and craft of acting designed to enable the students to free the imagination and enhance their versatility. Classes often include contemporary scene study, Shakespeare, audition technique, character biography and script analysis.
Movement and Voice (NTI-310)
Classes in both vocal technique and production along with dance and movement techniques for the actor. Movement classes include: Dance, Droznin Russian movement, Yoga, Alexander Technique and stage combat and Intimacy Direction. Voice training covers Linklater, Fitzmaurice, singing and other vocal production and care methods.​
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Directing (NTI-201)
Celebrating the power of visual theater through exploration of a variety of plays and musicals, students are encouraged to explore individual perceptions and interpretations of text in physical form and are challenged to find clear ways to communicate visually, and sonically. Masterclasses include film production design, sound design, and props design.
Playwriting (NTI-202)
Designed to assist aspiring writers in their development through a great variety of projects reflecting the range of contemporary theater. After a series of introductory exercises, that are read each week, students concentrate on writing a 30-minute play or musical with the course culminating in Playwrights and Librettist Week, a week-long presentation of the student plays and musicals. There are masterclasses in composing, short screenplays, and Musical Theater.
Design (NTI-210)
Celebrating the power of visual theater through exploration of a variety of plays and musicals, students are encouraged to explore individual perceptions and interpretations of text in physical form and are challenged to find clear ways to communicate visually, and sonically. Masterclasses include film production design, sound design, and props design. ​​​
Connecticut College is the founding partner and the college of record for the National Theater Institute programs. To learn more about credits and transcripts, please click HERE.
SAMPLE SCHEDULE
Every week at NTI looks a bit different as schedules are worked around our incredible faculty and artists. Scroll through to see what your week could look like as an NTI Semester student with an Acting Focus.