About the Program
Welcome to University College Summer Drama for International Students, hosted at University of Toronto, Canada’s highest ranked university!
Spend your summer exploring drama, theatre, and performance, perfecting your English skills, making friends with students from around the world, and immersing yourself in Toronto’s vibrant cultural landscape!
Whether you are coming from a different city, country or continent, UC Summer Drama offers an environment of growth and exploration for students entering or currently enrolled in a college or university. We are accepting students with some experience and high interest in theatre either through acting or digital media production for theatre (including sound design and music technology).
Part of the allure of this program is the international aspect of the participants, and high intermediate, advanced and fluent speakers of English are encouraged to apply.
Choose Your Specialization: Acting or Digital Media & Sound Design
Acting Workshops
High-energy, intensive and immersive classes for drama students.
- Foundational acting including voice and movement, improv, monologue and scene work
- Specialized classes can include intro to Shakespeare, acting for the camera, fight choreography, playwriting, and more
- Taught by Canada’s leading theatre professionals
- Small class sizes
- Students will examine text from a traditional stage acting point of view, then acting for the camera, and finally incorporating emerging technology in performance.
- The program culminates in a final performance showcase, where they will collaborate with the digital media students.
Digital Media Sound Design Workshops
Dynamic, immersive workshops exploring digital media & sound design in performance.
- Explore digital media design in theatre, dance, and live performance
- Experiment with sound design and music production
- Learn recording fundamentals including assembling and mixing
- Practice video editing
- Taught by Canada’s leading instructors from Faculty of Music at U of T
- Small class sizes
- Students will work on small projects, including a city soundscapes sound design project, and will collaborate with the acting students to provide sound design for the final performance project.
Embodied English Classes
Creative, acting-focused English classes.
- For high intermediate to advanced English speakers*
- Innovative approach using acting techniques to achieve full-fluency communication
- Fine-tune language skills in a fun, exploratory setting
*Fluent English speakers may opt for specialized classes in theatre-related arts or digital media design in lieu of Embodied English classes.
Co-curricular Activities and Outings
Explore Toronto, its theatre and culture.
- Daily excursions to explore Toronto’s vibrant arts and culture scene
- Talks and guided tours with leading theatre and music professionals
- Visits to major theatre and musical productions
- All-inclusive (admission fees, tickets, transportation, etc. are already included in the program fee).
About University College and University of Toronto
University College Summer Drama for International Students is hosted by University College at the University of Toronto.
Established in 1853, University College is the oldest of the University of Toronto’s seven St. George Campus colleges (in downtown Toronto).
Founded in 1827, the University of Toronto is now a world-class institution of learning, discovery, and knowledge creation. The University has 17 schools and faculties, 13 fully affiliated teaching hospitals, 19 graduate institutions, and 75 PhD programs, and its accomplished alumni include four Canadian Prime Ministers and six Nobel Prize winners.
With an annual enrolment of over 80 000 students, including more than 10 000 international students, the University is Canada’s largest educational institution and continues to be the nation’s leader in higher learning and research. The University of Toronto is consistently ranked as one of the top 20 universities in the world, rising in its rankings every year.
The University of Toronto ranks first in Canada and sixteenth globally according to the 2022 edition of U.S. News & World Report’s Best Global Universities Rankings.
About Faculty of Music
The digital media sound design component of UC Summer Drama is hosted by the Faculty of Music at University of Toronto.
Home to a diverse and dynamic community of scholars, performers, composers, and educators, U of T Music offers a supportive community in one of the world’s most diverse and dynamic cities. The Faculty of Music provides a superb learning environment, an internationally renowned teaching faculty, multiple performance halls, and an outstanding music library collection.
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Meet the Team
Acknowledgement of Traditional Land
We wish to acknowledge this land on which UC Summer Drama for International Students operates as part of University College, University of Toronto. For thousands of years it has been the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca, and most recently, the Mississaugas of the Credit.