Acting for Film & Television
Learn to act for the screen.
A hands-on, 10-week course for adults. On-camera technique, scene study, and the audition fundamentals working actors use, building to a final performance on the last day. No experience required.
A working actor’s toolkit for the screen.
Built for adults who want real, on-camera skill and a consistent place to train it. You’ll study scenes, drill audition technique, and put in the reps in front of the lens in a supportive room, guided step by step toward a final performance on the last day of class.
Three skills, take by take.
Over ten weeks you’ll master the audition, ground yourself in the craft, and learn to perform for the camera.
Acting Fundamentals
Build a solid foundation as an actor: presence, listening, truthful reactions, and the habits that make good, grounded performances.
Scene Analysis
Take a scene apart and build it back up: text analysis, character, and emotional preparation.
On-Camera Techniques
The technique beneath your favourite performances: eye lines, props, stage directions, and more.
Reps in the room, week after week.
Ten weeks, building to the final performance.
Train like the real thing.
A structure designed around maximizing your growth as a performer for the screen.
Students are guided through acting and auditioning fundamentals leading to a final performance on the last day. You’ll leave with the tools you need to work as an actor today, and those who are ready get the chance to showcase to agents and casting directors.
Whether you’re brand new or already on your journey, this is a place to sharpen your skills and train with real industry players.
Talent isn’t a one-off. It’s a practice.
This class is built to be your training gym, a consistent space to return to, rep after rep. Actors don’t get sharp in a single workshop; they get sharp by showing up, working the muscle, and coming back to do it again. Same room, same crew, every week.
What you’ll walk away with.
Your instructors.
After 15 years in Vancouver training with some of the top acting and performance coaches, Graham returned to Saskatoon to bring that level of training home. From screen to stage to the vocal booth, he has trained with the likes of Colin Mochrie, Andrew McIlroy, Alan Marriott, Peter Benson, and many more. A multi-disciplinary creative, his professional work spans screen, stage, and the voice booth as an actor, director, and producer.
Jeff trained in Vancouver starting in 2011 and was soon working professionally in voice, film, and television. From 2013 to 2024 he taught at Vancouver Acting School and Vancouver Young Actors School, helping students build on-camera skills and audition-ready technique. Now living and working as an actor in Saskatoon, he brings that professional experience straight into the room at Blackbox Academy.
Straight from the audience.
What students think after training with us in Saskatoon.
Fall is sold out. Winter is open.
Every seat in the fall course is taken. Join the waitlist in case one opens up, or get ahead of it and hold your spot in the next term, starting in January.
Improv Level 1 starts Monday, September 14, Mondays 6:00-9:00pm at Grosvenor Park Church. You’re on your feet acting in the first class, and the listening, presence, and instinct you build there carry straight into work on camera. No experience needed.
See Improv Level 1 →Deposits are non-refundable and applied to your total course fee · Ages 17+ · No pre-requisites · No experience required · Secure checkout via Stripe
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See you on set.
The fall course is full, but the next term starts in January and you can take your seat today. One step closer to your dreams with every take.