The National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) is Australia’s national dramatic arts educator and innovator. NIDA’s unparalleled rigour, practice-based learning, connections to industry and culture of innovation have produced some of the world’s most influential and in-demand storytellers across stage, screen and new digital platforms.

NIDA offers training in the full suite of skills necessary to create and deliver entertainment experiences for audiences – theatre, film, television, dance, opera, commercials, musicals, festivals, live events, interactive gaming and more.

NIDA alumni are actors, directors, writers, set and costume designers, lighting and sound designers, set builders, costume and prop makers, special effects artists, world builders, and stage and production managers. They win Academy Awards, design games, ceremonies, exhibitions and events, they lead arts companies, write our stories, fill our screens, work live music gigs, crew stage, film and television sets, manage arts centres and create start-up XR businesses. The National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) is Australia’s national dramatic arts educator and innovator. NIDA’s unparalleled rigour, practice-based learning, connections to industry and culture of innovation have produced some of the world’s most influential and in-demand storytellers across stage, screen and new digital platforms.

NIDA offers training in the full suite of skills necessary to create and deliver entertainment experiences for audiences – theatre, film, television, dance, opera, commercials, musicals, festivals, live events, interactive gaming and more.

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