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Overview | Program Information | Application | Audition | Financial Aid | Alumni Program of Study - Professional Actor Training Program (PATP)
The primary focus of PATP training is to provide our actors with the practical tools and sensibilities to become effective, outstanding performers. Every student appears in at least five productions, a self written solo show and an original, small, ensemble production. Recognizing the challenges and opportunities of acting in film, television and digital media, we provide our students with screen acting, voice over and audition technique to prepare our graduates for work in all venues. We provide the means, equipment and professional expertise to make professional quality videos to showcase our students’ talents. During the third year, classes and projects focusing on career and business are part of the curriculum. At the end of the third year we prepare a professional showcase for Seattle, Los Angeles and New York. Also, each actor in the program leaves with a professional quality audition “reel”. The training is structured to immerse our students in the traditional vocabulary and practices set down by Constantin Stanislavski and informed by the individual professional experiences of the faculty. The program is also designed to increase the actors’ expressiveness through “instrument classes” in voice, speech, dialects, coordination (Alexander Technique), Viewpoints and Suzuki based movement. Over the three years of study, our students become well versed in the established canon of western dramatic literature. The program also strives to inspire life-long exploration and inquiry into the creative spirit that informs the actor’s work. We recognize the importance of ensemble work and the necessity of entrepreneurial skills in developing a versatile, evolved actor. Every year PATP actors have opportunities to audition for northwest theatres including Intiman Theatre, ACT (A Contemporary Theatre), Seattle Children’s Theatre, Seattle Shakespeare Company and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, as well as for summer theatre festivals from around the region and country, several of whom come to campus to see UW PATP actors. As a result, many of our students find acting work in summers and immediately after graduating. PATP students receive a great deal of individual mentoring and are evaluated by the entire acting faculty at the end of each quarter. Students are admitted with the expectation that all will graduate, although dismissal is possible if given unsatisfactory critiques for two quarters.University Week article on Acting for the Camera class PATP Acting Faculty Geoffrey Alm
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