Bachelor of Arts (Hons) Acting
Why choose the BA (HONS) Acting programme?
If you’ve ever dreamed of a career on the world stage, in live theatre, film or new media, the Cours Florent BA (Hons) Acting gives you the technical and artistic skills, creative confidence, and industry insight to succeed:
- A Prestigious Partnership: Study at one of France’s most renowned and innovative performing arts schools, with 60 years legacy and an international alumni network. This BA (Hons) Acting is delivered by Cours Florent and validated by Regent’s University London, a leading UK institution recognised for its commitment to global education and creative industries.
- Rigorous Training & Personal Growth: Combine intensive professional training with artistic and personal development, right in the heart of Paris. You’ll explore acting for the stage and screen, rehearsal technique, voice, movement, improvisation, and ensemble performance. You will gain knowledge of technical stagecraft and audience engagement.
- Multidisciplinary Career Preparation: With a strong focus on industry employability, we prepare you to thrive in theatre (classical and contemporary), film, TV, digital media, and radio. You will gain experience in traditional and contemporary performance settings, as well as studio and on-location film shoots, reflecting the real-world expectations of the acting industry.
- An International Creative Hub: Cours Florent has welcomed students from over 65 countries, creating a dynamic multicultural environment. Studying in Paris offers access to a vibrant arts scene, international networking opportunities, and strong post-graduation prospects. Diversity of culture, identity, and expression are central to the programme and your artistic development.
- Expert Faculty: All instructors are active professionals in the international theatre and film industries. They bring experience as actors, directors, artistic directors, choreographers, cinematographers, singers, and technicians, trained in top institutions across Europe and the English-speaking world. You’ll benefit from expert guidance and real-world insight at every step of your studies.
What to expect?
This three-year practice-based programme is designed to logically progress students through an introduction to all aspects of theatre and film craft, and develop your unique artistic personalities, preparing you to enter and sustain a professional career in theatre, television, film, radio, and emerging new media.
Each year has a specific focus, (Foundations, Exploration, Production & Performance) and is further divided into modules and/or projects targeted to build technical, theoretical, and critical competencies and synthesize all aspects of your learning.
We focus on encouraging and developing a student’s unique artistic potential by providing a solid groundwork of foundational skills, current industry insight, and technical expertise. We instruct with a view to ensemble building, as we believe collaboration, creativity, and innovation lie at the heart of artistic endeavour.
Students are encouraged to push past perceived limitations, develop their instincts, and explore the possibilities of all forms of theatre, film, and media careers.
Beyond the Stage
To succeed in today’s performing arts industries, a comprehensive knowledge is vital. You’ll study dramatic literature, film, and theatre history from classical to contemporary, with an emphasis on inclusive and identity-based performance practices. Graduates leave with deep knowledge of performance-making, current professional practices, and the technical, business, and emerging digital sides of the industry.
Our students become not only actors, but also writers, directors, educators, and content creators, equipped to not only act, but thrive in the creative fields and carve their own paths. You will build knowledge of the acting industry, and develop audition and interview techniques, learn how to create showreels and performance showcases, and the vital skill of marketing yourself as a performer.
Interdisciplinary Approach:
Gain transferable skills that prepare you for a wide range of careers in the arts and beyond:
- Interpersonal Communication
- Time Management
- Empathic Awareness
- Critical Thinking & Problem Solving
- Teamwork & Collaboration
- Creative Entrepreneurship
Programme Structure
A progressive, practice-led training programme that develops actors across four complementary domains:
1. Interpretation Training
Scene study, ensemble practice and rehearsal processes that build the actor’s craft from foundation to professional production, alongside specific training in acting for the camera.
2. Focused Technical Training
Voice, body, movement, physical theatre, mask and clown techniques, and improvisation.
3. Theory & Analysis
Text analysis, history of the performing arts (theatre and cinema), and performance analysis.
4. Entrepreneurship & Professional Practice
Artistic entrepreneurship, audition techniques and self-taping, voice acting, and an Autonomous Student Project designed to bridge the gap between training and the professional industry.
The programme places progression at the heart of the learning journey. Students begin by acquiring the fundamental skills of acting, exploring the essential foundations of the actor’s craft: presence, listening, imagination, understanding text and scene structure, character development, physical and vocal technique, improvisation, and the analysis of objectives and dramatic stakes.
As the semesters progress, these core skills are strengthened and refined, gradually leading to a more advanced mastery of acting, the creation of complex characters, and increasingly autonomous artistic work.
This development naturally leads students to apply their growing toolkit through staged productions. They move from workshop-based exploration to the practical demands of performance: structured preparation and rehearsal processes, professional discipline, energy management, adapting to a director’s vision, and engaging fully with a live audience.
The programme therefore supports each student through a smooth yet ambitious progression – from technical foundations to full performance realization – developing the skills, autonomy and confidence needed to perform in public productions and ultimately enter the professional world.
Progression by Level
Goal: Build a solid actor’s toolkit and develop habits of rigorous, playful practice.
- Interpretation Training – Dramatic Interpretation 1: core acting technique, scene study, ensemble work, improvisation, rehearsal methods, focus and listening, imagination, and creative flow.
- The Actor’s Body: body awareness, space, rhythm, impulse and collective movement; introduction to intimacy training.
- The Actor’s Voice: healthy vocal technique, diction, and embodied voice for stage and everyday use.
- Physical Theatre: introduction to a range of physical theatre and movement practices and styles, non-logocentric approaches, physical character prototypes, and techniques of unarmed stage combat.
- Improvisation: listening, specificity and presence; short- and long-form improvisation as a bridge to character and scene work.
- Text Analysis: fundamentals (given circumstances, objectives, beats, conflict, verse and contemporary forms); subtext and context; character arc scoring.
- History of the Performing Arts: key movements and contexts in theatre and film, from Antiquity to contemporary practice.
Goal: Advance technique on stage and on camera; strengthen vocal and physical presence; broaden analytical insight.
- Interpretation Training – Dramatic Interpretation 2: advanced scene work, character creation, emotional connection, work on the actor’s energy and dramaturgical awareness (social, historical and cultural layers), public performances, and student-led original projects.
- Acting for the Camera: specific training focused on performing for the screen.
- Speech & Vocal Production: vocal training applied to different vocal styles, freeing vocal patterns, physical awareness and relaxation techniques.
- Mask & Clowning Techniques: fundamentals of mask and clown work, solo and group training, improvisations and creative projects, cultivating an authentic connection with the audience.
- Performance Analysis: learning to analyse performance from text to live event – including spectator experience, scenography, sound, lighting, video, costume, spatial dynamics and stage presence.
Goal: synthesise learning within a professional production season, develop career tools and step confidently into the industry.
- Interpretation Training – Dramatic Interpretation 3 (Performance & Production): a three-production season spanning a range of styles and genres, each directed by a professional director or senior faculty member. Each production is presented several times. Ongoing classwork supports technical training, interpretation, rehearsal management, the business of acting and audition preparation.
- Artistic Entrepreneurship: developing the ability to transform ideas into sustainable projects – budgeting, pitching, production dossiers and promotion; mapping diverse career pathways and building a professional toolkit.
- Audition Techniques, Self-Taping & Voice Acting: cold and prepared readings, callbacks and improvisation; producing high-quality self-tapes; work with microphones and audiobooks; understanding sector workflows and opportunities.
- Autonomous Student Project: conceive, plan and produce an artistically and commercially viable project, taking on key roles such as performer, director, writer, designer/technician, choreographer or marketing lead. This develops teamwork, time management, creative problem-solving and professional autonomy.
On completion of the three-year course, students will graduate with:
- A BA (Hons) degree validated by Regent’s University London.
- A robust acting methodology for stage and screen, grounded in rehearsal discipline, text work and collaborative ensemble practice.
- Technical versatility across voice, body, movement, improvisation, mask and clown work, and camera acting.
- Strong analytical literacy in text, history and live performance.
- Professional readiness: audition strategy, self-taping, voice acting fundamentals, intellectual property and budgeting, pitching and promotion, as well as a portfolio of realised projects presented publicly.
Admissions Process
- Application, interview and audition
- European high school diploma (or equivalent)
- B2 level in English
- Request your application form by emailing ba.acting@coursflorent.fr
- Return your completed application.
- You will be contacted for an interview and your audition/workshop*.
- The admissions panel will review your application and inform you of their decision.
*Auditions or interviews take several formats, depending on the applicant’s situation. Admission is conducted via a 2-step process and via one of two routes:
1/ For student candidates not present in Paris: (1) formal, written application including letter of motivation and any supporting materials (letters of recommendation, CV, portfolios, etc.) and (2) a subsequent submission of an online audition (digital video files). Applicants whose materials meet requirements will be invited to participate in an online interview and submit a prepared/recorded (digital format) audition consisting of two monologues (classical and contemporary) - one chosen from a list provided by Cours Florent, and one monologue of the candidate’s choice and contrasting in style with the other monologue.
2/ For student candidates resident in Paris: (1) formal, written application including letter of motivation and any supporting materials (letters of recommendation, CV, etc.) and a (2a) live audition consisting of one monologue chosen from a list provided by Cours Florent, and one contrasting monologue of the candidate’s choice or (2b) the successful participation in a Cours Florent workshop with audition integrated into the workshop. During these workshops participants are provided an insight into our teaching methods and gain practical experience in acting, they benefit from the teacher’s help by the preparation of the audition. Observing the progress of a candidate over several days provides the teacher of the workshop a deeper understanding of the current skills level and their untapped potential.
Tuition & Fees
For all Students
Annual Tuition Fee: €10,800/year
These fees only apply to the 2026/2027 academic year (subject to annual increase).
Additional course costs
General living expenses are the responsibility of the applicant, Cours Florent does not offer room and board. Our office of student services can provide a comprehensive list of available resources and services in and around Paris.
Funding Information
Cours Florent is a private institution and does not qualify for public financial aid.
Equipment and Facilities
You’ll have practical classes in our state-of-the-art theatre spaces located at our Delta campus, in Paris’s thriving 5th Arrondissement, as well as other Cours Florent facilities.
Additional Information
- Certification Rate: New programme - no graduates yet
- Degree Awarded: BA (Hons) Acting (Level 6, 180 ECTS)
- Progression: Graduates may pursue Master's degrees internationally
- Career Outcomes: Actors, directors, writers, educators, creators
- Programme language: All classes delivered in English (programme also available in French)