Acting Certificate Program in Oregon, USA

Portland Actors Conservatory:
Conveniently located in the heart of Downtown Portland OR, Portland Actors Conservatory provides comprehensive actor training taught by professional theatre practitioners in a creative and supportive environment. We offer an accredited, two-year Acting Certificate program as well as 4-week summer acting courses and acting programs for children. Our home is one of the most liveable cities in the United States, with a thriving and nurturing arts scene.

2-Year Certificate in Acting Program:
The Conservatory’s Two Year professional actor training program is a non-degree granting certificate program. The entire curriculum is compulsory.

Year One - Core Classes
- Acting Technique 1
- Acting Technique 2 
- Shakespeare 
- Theory Into Practice 1 & 2
- Styles 
- Meisner Technique
- Viewpoints 
- Text Analysis 1, Realism
- Text Analysis 2, Classical
- Movement 1 
- Movement II 
- Voice 1
- Voice 2 
- Performance Lab
- Technical Theatre I & II 
- Tech Practicum 1

Year Two - Core Classes
- Advanced Acting/Rehearsal 1
- Advanced Acting Performance 1
- Advanced Acting Rehearsal Technique 2
- Advanced Acting Performance 1
- Advanced Acting Rehearsal  3
- Advanced Acting Performance 3
- Graduation Thesis Project
- Audition Technique
- Theatre Management
- Professional Orientation I and II
- Monologue Development 
- Graduation Thesis Research 
- Acting For Film
- Voice 3  
- Movement 3
- Theatre Management Practicum   

4-week Adult Acting Classes:

Rehearsal to Performance:
While exploring the world of 10 minute plays, actors will experience moving from page to stage while accessing their emerging tool box of acting skills.

The class will culminate in a professional showcase of the actors work.

Back to Basics I
Discover, as if for the first time, your flexibility, imagination and sensory awareness. By engaging your impulses, intelligence and curiosity, you will explore the specific physical and emotional life of a character.

Back to Basics II
Honing the skills explored in Back to Basics I (or similar training), students delve deeper into text and narrative through the exploration of scene work.

Actors Instrument
What does it feel like to be on your voice and in your body?  This class will help articulate that experience for the actor.  Together we explore how to release particular vocal and physical dramatic energy.