National Theatre School of Canada

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The National Theatre School of Canada is a private college located in Montreal, Quebec. It occupies the historic landmark, the Monument National, on Saint Lawrence Boulevard as well as a building in The Plateau district, at the corner of Saint Denis Street and Laurier Street.

The school was founded in 1960 by director Michel St. Denis, who also co-founded Juilliard School, and taught at The Old Vic. It offers professional training in all the major theatre arts in both English and French, making it one of the only co-lingual theatre schools in the world. The programs include Acting, Directing, Production, Playwrighting and Scenography. Students are auditioned and or interviewed from all across the country, and NTS accepts international students as well. Placements at the school are competitive; for example, the Acting program auditions over a thousand students annually but only twelve are accepted.

[edit] Notable Alumni

The following is a list of famous students and the year they graduated.[1]

• Peter Cullen (1963) - Actor
• Roy Dupuis (1986) - Actor
• Luba Goy (1969) - Comedian (Royal Canadian Air Farce)
• Martha Henry (1964) - Director, Actress
• John Juliani (1964) - Director, Actor
• Heath Lamberts (1963) - Actor
• Kari Matchett (1993) - Actress (Power Play)
• Sandra Oh (1993) - Actress (Grey's Anatomy, Arli$$)
• Miro (1996) - Actor ( Littoral, Kà )
• Peter Oldring (1996) - Actor (Blue Collar TV, The Joe Blow Show)
• Cara Pifko - Actress (This is Wonderland)
• Salvatore Antonio (1998) - Actor, Playwright
• Donnelly Rhodes (1964) - Actor
• Coralee Elliott Testar (1964) - Screenwriter (The Little Kidnappers)
• Judith Thompson (1979) - Playwright (Perfect Pie)
• Colm Feore (1980) - Actor
• Jake Epstein (2008 - currently attending National Theatre School) - Actor
• Luke Kirby (actor) (1998) - Actor
• Alicia Thorgrimsson (1996) - Actor
• Sheila Heti (1997) - Writer

[edit] External links

• National Theatre School of Canada Website