The dual degree program in “Acting and Directing” at CNSAD – Paris Sciences & Lettres was created to allow a limited number of acting students pursuing undergraduate studies at the Conservatoire to expand their knowledge into directing and writing. Student actors and directors take a specific two-year course of study with some time devoted to their training as actors and other spent on issues related to directing, including specific classes, internships, artistic and technical collaborations, trips abroad, etc.
The curriculum is affiliated with PSL’s graduate program in Arts.
The structural intersection between undergraduate and graduate education indicates the Conservatoire’s desire to offer training in directing based on the program on which its history and current identity are built: the acting program. On the basis of their curriculum as student actors, students in directing take supplementary coursework designed to give them a broader perspective on theater. These classes, which take a wide variety of formats, complement those strictly related to a career in acting.
They include courses on directing actors of other generations as well as non-professionals (amateurs, children, prisoners, people with disabilities, etc.).
Understand and support policies for a place and how it relates to the public.
Delve into the technical issues
Be able to put together a theatrical form in very little time and with limited resources.
Be able to organize in-depth research on a topic or writer over a long time frame.
Technical skills; awareness of personal safety; relationships between directors and actors; openness to audiences and the world; critical thinking; writing ability; relationship with the other arts; ability to design and administratively put together a project, etc.