The National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) is Australia’s leading institution for education and training in theatre, film and television. For more than 50 years, NIDA has nurtured some of Australia’s and the world’s greatest performers, artists and creative professionals.
Higher Education Provider ID: PRV12052 | CRICOS CODE: 00756M | RTO Code: 90349
Based in Sydney, NIDA comprises higher education courses, NIDA Open public courses, NIDA Corporate communication and presenting training and NIDA Theatres.
NIDA offers Diploma, Bachelor and Masters qualifications across a broad range of performing arts disciplines as varied as acting, directing, cultural leadership, specialist make-up and technical theatre and stage management, among others.
NIDA Corporate conducts courses in Sydney and Melbourne, offering practical skills-based training in communication, presentation and leadership for individuals and businesses. Its experiential training is based on NIDA’s renowned performing arts techniques and methodology, and offers public and in-house courses, one-to-one coaching, online courses , group workshops, conference seminars and keynote speakers.
For over 20 years, NIDA Open has delivered part-time and short courses for children, young people and adults in theatre, TV and film across the country.
NIDA Theatres comprises five theatre spaces and other purpose-built rooms/spaces available for external hire.
Home of the Performing Arts in South Australia, the Adelaide Festival Centre offers a diverse program of festival quality shows for a broad range of tastes and budgets throughout the year. As well as our own festivals, we make sure the festival continues with a year packed full of music, dance, theatre and exhibitions.
Our Mission
Adelaide Festival Centre aims to;
Be the South Australian arts hub and a leading Arts Centre in the Asia Pacific region.
Reinvent and comprehensively upgrade Adelaide Festival Centre and successfully integrate the Festival Centre within the Riverside Precinct Development
Sustain and develop our program led ethos to deliver great work in all our venues.
Consolidate and increase ticketed attendances and visitation and sustain them.
Ensure high quality customer experience across all aspects of Adelaide Festival Centre operations.
Implement a more sustainable, responsive financial model to underpin the overall objectives of Adelaide Festival Centre.
We're for stories: the ones less told, the ones told before and the ones yet to be told.
Under the leadership of Artistic Director Anne-Louise Sarks and Executive Director Sally Noonan, Melbourne Theatre Company embodies the creative spirit that Melbourne and Victoria are renowned for, bringing remarkable theatre to the fore to inspire, entertain, challenge and enrich the lives of audiences.
As one of Australia’s flagship performing arts companies, we produce classic and contemporary Australian and international theatre for today and tomorrow, with excellence, imagination and passion.
We employs approximately 90 permanent staff and around 400 casuals each year, in a variety of creative and administrative departments at our Company HQ and at Southbank Theatre, which are both located in Melbourne's Southbank cultural precinct.
As the state theatre company of Victoria, we're an important part of the cultural landscape and play a special role in the lives of thousands of Australians.