Program Overview

Comedy Conservatory Diploma

Program Overview

The Comedy Conservatory Diploma program is designed to introduce students to advanced acting methods and allow them to use them in a variety of real-world scenarios. By working on Monologues, One-Acts, and a Full-Length Play, students will gain real-world experience in front of an audience, which will enable them to take their talents to a whole new level.

Program Outline

At the conclusion of the graduate Comedy program, students will be able to:

• Identify and perform the many different styles and types of comedy
• Create unique "characters" for the many different styles of comedy
• Write comedy (stand-up and sketch comedy)
• Perform roles in all facets of comedic acting

Pre-Requisites

• Completion of the Vancouver Acting School Acting: Film, Television & Voice-Over program, or a similar full-time program at a recognized post-secondary institution

English Language Requirements

Applicants with mature students status, and/or students whose first language is not English, must meet the following minimum scores from any one of the following tests in English proficiency:

• International English Language Testing Service (IELTS): minimum score required is overall 6.0
• Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL): minimum score required is 68 for the internet-based exam, 190 for the computer-based exam, and 520 for the paper-based exam
• Test of English for International Communication (TOEIC): minimum score required is 700
• Cambridge First Certificate in English (FCE): minimum level achieved B1

Program Details

• Program duration: 36 weeks
• Total course hours: 870 hours
• Tuition fee: $13,900
• Materials cost: $400

Course Outline

Term 1

• ACT-225: Fundamentals - Group Improv & Story (3 credits)
• ACT-230: Voice & Movement with Clown (3 credits)
• ACT-265: Intro to Sketch (3 credits)
• ACT-275: Intro to Stand-Up (3 credits)
• ACT-285: Intermediate Improv (3 credits)

Term 2

• ACT-231: Intro Voice & Movement (3 credits)
• ACT-266: Developing Sketch (3 credits)
• ACT-276: Stand Up in Performance (3 credits)
• ACT-286: Advanced Improv (3 credits)
• ACT-287: Fundamentals - Group Improv & Story (3 credits)

Term 3

• ACT-226: Fundamentals - Comedic Audition & Scene Study (3 credits)
• ACT-232: The Devised Piece (3 credits)
• ACT-267: Sketch in Performance (3 credits)
• ACT-288: Improv in Performance 1 (3 credits)
• ACT-289: Improv in Performance 2 (3 credits)

What Students Say

• "VAS IS AWESOME! So awesome in fact, that I spent every day in the last six months looking forward to what I was going to learn the next day! Every class is as informative and as exciting as the last. The teachers know their stuff and are incredibly supportive! Just remember, work, work, work and you will gain." - Andy Jackson, VAS Alumni
• "My training absolutely prepared me to work alongside actors I look up to. It gave me the confidence to know I deserved to be in that room. I was working with actors I admired and that I was excited to be with, but the disciplines we learned helped me focus on the fact that we’re all doing the same thing." - Montana Norberg, Alumni, Dollar Cinema, Lego Star Wars
• "It has been the best program I’ve studied so far. I learned more than I could of ever imagined and enjoyed every moment of it." - Kathy Harder, VAS Alumni