The Art of Live Theater: Directing and Acting (Master’s Program)

ILIA STATE UNIVERSITY

The program aims to create an environment integrated with performance practice for future directors and actors and, through work based on workshop principles in an active theater, provide them with the opportunity to develop their own individual creative vision and deepen practical skills of co-authoring a performance in one of the theatrical arts tracks (directing or acting), based on acquiring new knowledge, so that they are prepared both for independent professional advancement and for creating a competitive environment in the field of theatrical arts.

Degree awarded:

  • Master of Directing
  • Master of Acting

 

Language of instruction: Georgian

Program duration: 120 ECTS credits, 4 semesters

Admission requirements for the master’s program:

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent academic qualification
  • Successful completion of university’s internal examinations 

 

Note: In accordance with the Law of Georgia on Higher Education and due to the specifics of arts education, candidates for admission to the master’s program “Live Theater Arts: Directing and Acting” do not need to pass the general master’s examination

To successfully complete the master’s program “Live Theater Arts: Directing and Acting,” students must accumulate 120 credits according to the following scheme:

Common block – Theater Workshop: 51 credits

Directors’ block: 27 credits

Actors’ block: 27 credits

Common elective block: 12 credits

Diploma performance: 30 credits

Master Classes

Resources and Research

Educational and Practical Resources

Partner Organizations

  • Shota Rustaveli Theater and Film University
  • Tumanishvili Theater Foundation
  • Center for Contemporary Theater Art Development
  • Zakaria Paliashvili Tbilisi Opera and Ballet Professional Theater
  • Et-cetera
  • Giorgi Mikeladze Tbilisi State Puppet Theatre
  • Tbilisi Public School No. 175
  • Tbilisi Public School No. 63
  • Tbilisi Public School No. 23

Research Activities

Academic Staff Research Interests

  • Associate Professor Ivane Khutsishvili – Theater, directing, acting.
  • Khatuna Khubuliani – Contemporary art history and theory; latest trends in art and architecture; criticism; philosophy of art; curatorial activities
  • Lika Gordeziani – Ancient drama and its reception; ancient mythology; animals in myths and literature; medieval bestiaries; works of naturalists of the 16th-18th centuries; scientific and popular names of animals
  • Rusudan Mirtskhulava – Fields of activity: psychology of art and artistic creativity; art therapy, psychodrama; psychology of emotion; social psychology; psychology of mood and D. Uznadze’s psychological heritage; Research interests: 1. Expressive movements of emotion, “body language” and priming, 2. Anxiety parameters and their impact on academic achievement, 3. Correlational study of creativity and anxiety parameters