Education Partners
If you choose to enrol here your access to a wide variety of internationally and nationally famous and inspiring theatre and film companies, festivals and industry participants will be unparalleled. The external networks you will build through these contacts while studying at this remarkable School will stand you in good stead for a lifetime career.
Victoria University of Wellington
Departments of English, Film & Theatre; Music and Architecture & Design.
Toi Whakaari has a close relationship with these departments at Victoria University, which is strengthened through the joint Master of Theatre Arts in Directing course. Students from the University are often involved in aspects of Toi Whakaari MTA productions.
The Film School
Students from The Film School work with first year actors and first and second year Entertainment Technology students in a film block every year. They also often provide crew for other Toi Whakaari films.
Screen Director's Guild of New Zealand
Toi Whakaari's third year acting students make a film every year directed and crewed by renowned screen industry professionals. Many members of the Guild also tutor the Toi Whakaari acting students in screen skills throughout the course.
Whitireia Polytechnic
Every year tutors from Whitireia visit Toi Whakaari and provide intensive Tangata Pacifika courses. Our staff reciprocate with an acting intensive for Whitireia students.
Goethe Institute
The Goethe Institute collaborates with the school in bringing German directors, actors and tutors of distinction to New Zealand. It has also assisted Toi Whakaari in mounting German theatrical works and exhibitions.
International Relationships
California Institute of the Arts
CalArts is one of America's finest arts schools. It offers courses in Art, Critical Studies, Dance, Film and Video, Music and Theatre. Toi Whakaari has a developing relationship with CalArts which includes an exchange programme.
University of the Incarnate Word, San Antonio, USA
Incarnate Word in Texas has a thriving theatre arts department and a long standing relationship with Toi Whakaari. In most years an Incarnate Word student will spend the first week of term on exchange to Toi Whakaari.
La Mancha International School of Image and Gesture
La Mancha is located in Santiago, Chile and is taught by graduates of the Lecoq School. It focuses on movement based physical theatre, incorporating mask, mime, pantomime, Greek chorus work, improvisation and even karate. A student exchange programme has been running since 2001 and a staff exchange is currently mooted.
Toi Whakaari: NZ Drama School also has international relationships with:
- Globe Theatre, London, England
- The Wooster Group, New York, USA
- Odin Teatret, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Theatre du Soleil, Paris, France
- Black Nexxus, New York, USA
- National Institute of Dramatic Arts (NIDA), Sydney, Australia
- Contact Improvisation Centre, San Francisco, USA
- Centre for Performance Research, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK
- Victorian College of the Arts (VCA), Melbourne, Australia
- Tara Arts Theatre Company, London, UK
- Bold & Saucy Theatre Company, London, UK
- Yellow Earth Theatre Company, London, UK
- University of Toledo, Ohio, USA
- University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
- Roy Hart School, Paris, France
- Cirque du Soleil, Montreal, Canada
