Bachelor of Creative Arts (Acting)

You will undertake three years of dedicated training, developing your craft, and graduating with the skills to work in highly diversified sector with career pathways in screen, stage, and beyond.  You will begin from the first year, exploring your own creative identity and understanding of the creative arts, as well as training in acting skills, including movement, voice, speech production, physical expressivity, character, acting methodologies, and script analysis. 

As your course progresses you will continue to refine your acting skills, and your creative leadership skills, as well as having the option to include complementary studies across areas including drama, film, writing, media, and marketing. These studies will increase your entrepreneurial knowledge, and provide greater flexibility of employment in a rapidly changing industry.  

Your final year presents opportunities to work on collaborative projects, developing and demonstrating real-world skills in working with other creative practitioners and showcasing these skills to the stage, screen, and emerging media industries you are about to graduate into.  You will graduate confident in your abilities as an actor, and as a creative leader working both independently and collaboratively to produce, promote, and generate audience excitement about your screen and stage performances, throughout the course of your career. 

Throughout your degree you will also develop your skillset in areas such as critical and creative thinking, self-awareness and digital fluency which will prepare you for a rapidly changing future with QUT You units. 

Careers and outcomes

The interdisciplinary nature of this degree will offer you multiple career pathways. Graduates of this course become actors in stage, screen, and emerging platforms, Teaching Artists or other allied industry or creative roles like a manager, facilitator, arts administrator, private arts teacher and more.  

Graduates work nationally and internationally as film actors, television actors and stage actors. They have won leading roles in national and state theatre companies, television series, mini-series and feature films. 

If teaching is your ambition, this course can also be followed with a graduate-entry teacher education Master of teaching courses (check the entry requirements for specific teaching courses) which enables you to become a qualified teacher.

Notable graduates include:

• Mackenzie Mazur – Television: Last Days of the Space Age, I Can’t be Sorry, Boy on Fire. Film: Moja Vesna
• Sisi Stringer – Television: Force of Nature: The Dry, Children of the Corn, Vampire Academy. Film: Carnifex, Mortal Kombat
• Emily Weir – Home and Away and Dancing with the Stars 
• Tom Wilson – Television: Heartbreak High, The Newsreader, Ladies in Black, The Twelve, Latecomers, Home and Away. Theatre: Isolde and Tristan (Sport for Jove)  
• Reagan Mannix – Film: The Narrow Road to the Deep North. Television: Boy Swallows Universe, Young Rock
• Ethan Lwin – Television: Human Error, Troppo, Young Rock 
• Catherine Văn-Davies – Theatre: American Signs, Playing Beattie Bow, White Pearl (STC), A Streetcar Named Desire (Red Lone), Sex Magick (Griffin). Television: Hungry Ghosts, Amazing Grace, Barons, The Twelve, The Claremont Murders
• Thea Raveneau – Film: A Savage Christmas
• Wayne Blair – Television: Total Control (actor/director), Redfern Now (writing team/director/actor). Film: Top End Wedding, The Sapphires (director). Actor television: Irreverent, Aftertaste, Wakefield, The Last Time I Saw Michael Gregg, Blessed, Mullet. Film: The New Boy. Theatre: True West (STC), Jesus Hopped the A Train (Company B Belvoir), Othello (Bell Shakespeare), The Sapphires (Belvoir St Theatre), and Run Rabbit Run (Company B)
• Gigi Edgley – Family Matters, Final Frontier, Last Train to Freo and Newcastle. Rescue: Special Ops, Starter Wife and Stingers 
• Gyton Grantley – Logie for best actor, Underbelly. Also CSI: New York, Fairly Legal, House Husbands. Films include Prime Mover, The Reef, Balibo and Beneath Hill 60. Stage: South Pacific
• Tai Hara – Home and Away and Dancing with the Stars 
• Josh Helman – The Pacific, Animal Kingdom and Jack Reacher 
• Anna McGahan – Rake, Underbelly, House Husbands and ANZAC Girls
• Adrienne Pickering – The Reef, The Clinic, Final Call and Candy. ABC’s Rake, All Saints, Out of The Blue and Secrets and Lies. Stage work includes Ruben Guthrie, Company B Belvoir
• Alec Snow – Home and Away, lead singer for his band Interim
• Michael Dorman – Wonderland, Daybreakers and Wild Boys. The Secret Life of Us, Sea Patrol, Rescue: Special Ops and the ABC’s Serangoon Road
• Conrad Coleby – Sea Patrol, Home and Away, All Saints, Headland, Water Rats and Always Greener. Stage includes The Glass Menagerie, Queensland Theatre Company; South Pacific, The Club, Sydney Theatre Company
• Brenton Thwaites – SLIDE, Blue Lagoon, Maleficent, Titans, Ruben Guthrie, Pirates of the Caribbean 
• Sophie Dillman – Home and Away 
• Alison McGirr – Ladies in Black, Year of 2023, Transfusion, Thirty, Who We Love