Acting program

Develop your acting talent while building the knowledge and practical skills required for a professional career as an actor. At our theater school in Stockholm, we offer a solid and demanding acting education that explores a wide range of means of expression and techniques.

Acting techniques
Deepen and refine your talent through a wide range of acting techniques and methods, and acquire the tools necessary for professional acting. The program integrates both classical and contemporary approaches, including Stella Adler, Michael Chekhov, Stanislavsky, Meisner Technique, Uta Hagen, Viewpoints and Strasberg. This gives you a diverse and well-balanced technical foundation.

Ensemble & theater dynamics
Build a deep understanding of how a real theater family works. You’ll learn how to create, maintain and contribute to a strong artistic ensemble, with a focus on trust, collaboration and shared responsibility. Through supervised practice, you’ll explore group dynamics and creative processes, and develop tools to handle challenges with empathy, clarity and balance – both as an individual artist and as part of a collective.

Voice
Develop your voice and learn to master your most important tool in different scenic contexts.

Guerrilla Film Block
Learn how to write, direct, edit, produce and star in your own short films. You’ll gain practical experience both in front of and behind the camera. You’ll develop acting techniques for film and TV, while deepening your understanding of the working conditions, responsibilities and challenges of a professional film crew.
Many of our student films have been submitted to and screened at both local and international short film festivals, giving the work real exposure outside the classroom.

Movement
Develop your bodily awareness and physical expression by learning to shape movement, gesture and presence as narrative tools. Based on Michael Chekhov’s psycho-physical technique – including psychological gesture, atmosphere and center – you will learn to create character from the body outwards.
Through clown work, you develop playfulness, openness, precision and vulnerability, strengthening your connection to impulse, rhythm and the present moment. Animal work is integrated as a central physical tool, using observation and embodiment of animal qualities to broaden the register, find new movement patterns and release instinctive behavior. Together, these methods build physical freedom, imagination and control – for brave, true and fully embodied performances on stage and in front of the camera.

Text analysis
Gain an understanding of dramatic performance through different periods of theater history, including work with Shakespeare. You will develop methods and tools for interpreting a wide variety of texts, both from an overall perspective and with detailed precision. You’ll learn how to break scenes down into beats and identify shifts in action, intention and energy, and how thoughtful blocking emerges organically from the analysis – guided by how the beats develop and how the story moves in space.

Stage combat
Get basic training in different fighting techniques that can be used both on stage and in front of the camera.

Final productions
During the program, you will take part in two productions that mark important milestones in your development. The first production takes place halfway through the program and gives you the opportunity to apply and demonstrate the skills you have developed so far.
The final production, presented at the end of the program, serves as a summary and culmination of your entire training.

Basic eligibility
To apply to the Acting Program, you need to have completed upper secondary education or the equivalent. Admission also requires specific prior knowledge and suitability for the program, which is assessed through our entrance exams.

If you do not have a final certificate, diploma or degree, you may still be assessed as eligible based on the results of the admission test. In your application, you should clearly explain your educational background and/or relevant professional experience so that we can make an overall assessment of your qualifications.

Admission rounds
We conduct one main admission round every 1.5 years, usually in the fall. Depending on demand, we admit one or two classes, with each class consisting of 16-18 students. The limited group size creates a focused, ensemble-based study environment and ensures that each student receives individual support and guidance.

The Acting Program is a 1.5-year fee-based vocational education with a tuition fee of SEK 47,500 per semester. The program is CSN-eligible and provides the opportunity to apply for student grants, including additional cost loans that can cover part of the tuition fee.

The education is classified at post-secondary level, but the CSN support is taken from the upper secondary level quota. This means that your entitlement to CSN at post-secondary level is not affected, making it possible to continue studying at university or college in the future. READ MORE HERE on the CSN website.

For detailed information on student finance for the Acting Program, please refer to the CSN website. We also recommend that you contact CSN directly to investigate your individual possibilities for student grants and possible loans for tuition fees.

Payment & costs

• Tuition fee: 47 500 SEK per semester
• Total training cost: 142 500 SEK
• Please note that tuition fees for the latter part of the course may be adjusted in line with inflation or increased operating costs.

In addition to the tuition fee, there are costs for course literature and study materials, which usually amount to around SEK 1,000-2,000 per academic year, depending on whether materials are bought, borrowed or shared with other students.

We believe that actors develop most strongly by encountering and working with a wide range of theater techniques. By working with several different methods, you will have the opportunity to discover which approaches really resonate with you, while developing flexibility, breadth and confidence in your expression as an actor.

Our training is both broad and in-depth, with the aim of giving you the conditions to create true and engaging performances through your voice, your physical presence and the living interaction with fellow players and audience.

Foundation year
In your first year, you’ll build a strong professional foundation. The program covers study techniques, movement and body awareness, acting techniques, voice and speech, improvisation, monologue and scene work, and an introduction to critical perspectives in the performing arts. This year is designed to give you the basic tools of the actor’s craft.

Deepening & professional practice
During the third semester, you will deepen your work in movement, acting and voice, while broadening your education with guerrilla film blocks, devising and stage productions. You will also gain practical insight into what it is like to work as a freelance actor, including knowledge of contracts, finances, marketing yourself and how to create a sustainable career over time.

The program ends with a final production performed in front of an audience and invited industry representatives – an opportunity to showcase the full breadth and artistic work that you and your ensemble have developed together.