ABSTRACT
This chapter offers insight into effective and efficient teaching in undergraduate theatre and film programs to recruit, admit, retain, and graduate top acting students from the shrinking pool of high-school applicants to meet industry needs. It focuses on fungible skills in theatre and film undergraduate actor training programs that transfer from one job to another. Program rankings were developed from a composite of trades journals and websites in Australia, Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Analysis of advertising on well-regarded institutional websites informed frequency in the word clouds that appear before theatre, film, TV, and digital media undergraduate program descriptions. The National Institute of Dramatic Arts is a world-class professional training program that equips acting majors with intellectual and technical skills to act in theatre, TV, and commercial entertainment, as described on its website in 2018.
