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.

UofA Calendar description of the program

How to Apply

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