Diploma in Drama (Screen Acting)

Diploma in Drama (Screen Acting) two-year diploma offers in-depth training in voice, body, imagination, and collaboration, allowing you to develop your acting toolbox. You will be further challenged with opportunities for live performance, while being guided and advised on how to form industry networks – a crucial part of gaining relevance in an ever-evolving industry.

South Seas School is unlike any facility in Aotearoa - You will get real experience and see how film and television departments really collaborate.

Through a steady stream of practical filmed projects, we broaden and challenge the scope of your development as an actor.

This two-year diploma provides in-depth and practical training through developing your toolbox: voice, body, imagination, and collaboration. We allow time for your physical and vocal practice to become embodied. You will explore multiple acting techniques for screen and live performance, and develop your own critical and creative thinking. Alongside this core training, you will get real experience of how film and television departments collaborate through a steady stream of practical filmed projects. We broaden and challenge the scope of your development as an actor by providing opportunities for live performance; this serves to deepen your craft and self-knowledge as a performer and to help you carve out a sustainable and lifelong acting career.

You need to be committed, disciplined, wildly passionate, empathetic, punctual, and hardworking to succeed in this industry, therefore we support you to build the resilience, rigor, and creative drive that you need by creating a positive, challenging campus environment. South Seas tutors have experienced industry professionals who have worked on many screen projects such as Shortland Street, The Brokenwood Mysteries, Outrageous Fortune, Eagle vs Shark, In Dark Places - to name a few... and through this experience, we're able to help you build necessary skills and knowledge.

We also guide and advise you on how to form industry networks a crucial part of maintaining relevance in this ever-evolving film and television industry.

Successfully complete this course and you'll receive the New Zealand Diploma in Drama (Level 6).

Experienced Tutors

Learn from industry professionals who have worked on many screen projects.

Make Lifelong Connections

Because we have been working in the industry for such a long time we will introduce you to people who will become lifelong connections.

Fuel the NZ Film andTV Industry

Throw a stone at a film set in New Zealand and you're bound to hit a South Seas Film and Television School graduate.