Bachelor of Fine Arts (Acting)
Course code: B-FAACTING
March
Commonwealth Supported Places (CSPs) available
Range of criteria used for selection
Access Melbourne is available
March
AUD $39,936 (2026 indicative first year fee)
Range of criteria used for selection
IELTS 6.5 (with no band less than 6.0)
Student experience
Overview
Show spotlight: 2022 Graduating Season
Each year, our graduating students from the Bachelor of Fine Arts (Acting) showcase their passion and flair in end-of-year performances.
Our 2022 graduating student season included two exhilarating and physically demanding plays exploring sport and its consequences:
- The Wolves, a Pulitzer Prize finalist from acclaimed American playwright Sarah DeLappe, exploring the experiences of a high school’s all-girl soccer team
- 37, a never-before-performed play by Trawlwoolway, Pakana/Palawa playwright Nathan Maynard, centring on a local footy team’s season and the Adam Goodes saga.
Learn about the experience of preparing and delivering plays during a degree at the VCA in this interview with Georgina Naidu, Lead in Acting, and Chris Mead, Head of Drama.
Exposure while you study
You’ll gain professional exposure and practice through public performances, exhibitions and crewing, while the embedded capstone experience provides the opportunity to showcase performances to industry in Sydney and Melbourne, in public film screenings, and in graduate exhibitions.
Faculty of Fine Arts and Music
The course is taught at the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, the proud home of the Victorian College of the Arts and the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music.
You’ll enjoy access to incredible facilities, including cinemas, digital vision and audio post-production facilities, visual art studios and technical workshop facilities, purpose-built dance studios, libraries, theatre and performance spaces, and animation and stop-motion studios.
While studying at the Faculty, you will have the chance to benefit from a range of partnerships and engagement activities at major arts companies in Melbourne's Arts Precinct, local and national festivals and sister institutions around the world.
Explore the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music
Wilin Centre
Situated in the heart of Melbourne's Arts Precinct, the Wilin Centre for Indigenous Arts and Cultural Development provides exposure to contemporary Indigenous arts practices and supports the recruitment of Indigenous artists, academics and students.
Profile
Chris Mead
After 25 years of working in the industry, being in rehearsal rooms, I've loved coming to VCA because of the extraordinary responsibility we have to be able to work with talent at such a formative stage.
The students come to us – some of them filled with rage, some of them filled with love, all of them filled with curiosity about what's possible. And what's really exciting is being able to introduce the right things at the right times, whether it's a particular skill or a play or somebody from the industry, that come in and can mentor them.
To come and join us at VCA is such an extraordinary opportunity because we think so deeply and in an embodied way and in a regardful way: thinking about individuals, thinking about them working together as a group, but also thinking about the future.
So we're getting the right people in the right place to make something genuinely extraordinary.
Watch Chris Mead break down the BFA Acting and Theatre
Read more about Chris Mead’s philosophy and love for theatre
