18-month&12-month Theatre Directing Courses

Hello Theatre Director!

The New International Performing Arts Institute (NIPAI), located in the cultural hub of Berlin, Germany, is now offering programs in Theatre Directing. Our programs, designed for both blended and distance learning, provide students with a comprehensive education in modern theatre directing techniques. With the option of blended or distance learning, these opportunities can be accessed from anywhere in the world.

Duration of study:
18-month & 12-month

Start date:
- April 3, 2023
- September 1, 2023

Course format:
distance or blended course

At NIPAI, we believe in empowering professional creative leaders like yourself to reach their full potential. Our programs are flexible and designed to accommodate those who work and are involved in performing arts. With a curriculum that emphasizes practice, you'll have the opportunity to gain hands-on experience to supplement the theoretical knowledge you'll gain through the program. By the end of the program, you will have the skills and knowledge to bring your creative ideas to life on stage, lead and collaborate with a team, and develop your unique strengths and style as a director.

In this program, you will learn by doing from day one for the entire 18 months, gaining hands-on experience. You will have the opportunity to go through all the stages of a professional performance. At the end of the training, an important stage is the training project. For students of diploma courses "Theatre Directing", the educational project is a graduation performance.

Who is this course for?

Experienced theatre directors:
You will be able to get a structured set of knowledge from an experienced expert, upgrade your skills and reach a new level.

For novice specialists in theatre industry:
You will be able to gain knowledge and tools to embody your creative vision, find your style and develop as a director.

What you will able to learn:

- The fundamentals of theatre directing
- How to embody creative ideas
- How to interact with a team
- How to correctly build a composition on stage
- Understanding your strengths and find style
- Create actions on stage

How is the studying going?

1) Study lectures on your own
2) You consolidate knowledge in practice and hand over the work
3) Based on the completed assignments, you are preparing a graduation performance

The course is a drop of theory and a sea of practice!


Some of the key learning objectives of the program:
• How to read and analyze a play, how to formulate a plot and the super-objective of the performance

• What a theatre director should prepare for their first meeting with actors

• How to lead actors from the first meeting to the performance

• How to work with the production team

• What tools should directors possess to help actors prepare for their roles

• How to choose and apply rehearsal methods and acting technique

• The post-production aspects of a performance


Theatre Directing Modules:

- Ensemble Building
- The Director and Author
- The Director and Form in Performance
- Text. Voice. Physical Action
- The Director and Method
- The Director and Production

Listen to a student who has already completed his course: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_3COa...ST&index=5

Be part of a huge community of theater directors! We have students from 32 countries of the world.

More about Theatre Directing Program: https://www.nipai.org/theatre-directing

Cost of education: https://www.nipai.org/tuition-fees-and-dates

FAQ: https://www.nipai.org/faq-diplomas

DEVELOP IN THAT WHAT YOU REALLY LIKE!