MFA Theatre Voice Pedagogy
The MFA in Theatre Voice Pedagogy program will begin accepting applications for Fall 2025 starting November 1, 2024.
Program application deadline: January 31, 2025.
The only graduate degree program in Canada dedicated to training professionals in voice, speech and text instruction.
Highlights:
- Intensive Training with full access to David Ley's teaching and coaching - one of Canada's foremost voice, speech and text specialists
- Individualized attention in a small, select cohort
- Ample opportunities to teach and coach in the Department of Drama over the two years of study, including theatrical and public speaking coaching
You will experience:
- Practical experience in all elements of voice production, speech facility, dialect, and text interpretation in the context of theatre and public speaking
- Studies in speech science, typically in the Speech Pathology and Audiology department
- Observation of faculty teaching and coaching
- Practical Graduate Teaching Assistantship work in an undergraduate oral communication course
- Supervised practical experience with voice coaching in the department and in the broader theatre community
- A thesis project consisting of the preparation and execution of a major voice coaching assignment for the Department of Drama's resident theatre company, or for an outside professional production.