Welcome to
George Brown Theatre School

Illustration of student performing on stage

Bringing characters to life on stage is a demanding but exciting career path. To reach the stage, in addition to a great deal of natural talent, there’s also a lot of technical training involved, and that’s where our theatre arts programs come in. Our students train at the Young Centre for the Performing Arts, and are exposed to professional directors, stage managers, designers, and technicians. And in the final year of their studies, students get to experience what it’s like to perform a season.

Student Productions

  • A woman in a white coat, plastic cups and containers floating from above as people with white masks stand behind.

    New World (2022)

    Aly MacFarlane and cast

    Photography by Cylla von Tiedemann

  • A woman in pink has a woman in white in a headlock. The woman in white is trying to get the other off.

    New World (2022)

    Hannah Ireland and Sarah Schmidt-McQuillan

    Photography by Cylla von Tiedemann

  • Actors in playful children's clothes, based on the Robert Munsch children's book style.

    Munsch Garden (2022)

    Misha Sharivker, Barbara-Jane Jones, Ganesh Thava, Dieter Lische-Parkes, Danny Brozovich

    Photography by Cylla von Tiedemann

  • Man and woman in 20th Century clothing. The man is holding the woman close, but she is obviously not amused, pulling back from him.

    Anatol (2023)

    Gibum D. Lim and Tia Baum

    Photography by Cylla von Tiedemann

  • Woman ripping open a pillow, throwing feathers in the air. The room she is in has a turned over chair, and two characters look at her, bewildered.

    Anatol (2023)

    Ari Crooks, Shelayna Christante and Judah Parris

    Photography by Cylla von Tiedemann

  • Three schoolgirls look on in expressions ranging from worry to disgust as a different schoolgirl, bejeweled in gold, holds up a snake

    The Children’s Hour (2023)

    Sarah Schmidt-McQuillan, Tia Baum, Aly MacFarlane and Alex Vautour

    Photography by Cylla von Tiedemann

  • Four people in drab clothes look at something off-camera, expressions ranging from disgust to disappointment

    Low Pay? Don’t Pay! (2023)

    Judah Parris, Hannah Ireland, Gibum D. Lim and Alex Vautour

    Photography by Cylla von Tiedemann

  • A man sits on the back of his dinner chair, feet on the seat, as he cradles a large pot and eats out of it with the ladle

    Low Pay? Don’t Pay! (2023)

    Judah Parris

    Photography by Cylla von Tiedemann

Playbills 2021-22

Closeup of wedding lace
A man kissing a woman from over a fence, his arms wrapped around her
The Aurora borealis (the Northern Lights) lit up above the Callanish Stones on the west coast of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland
Munsch Time illustration of Dad and pigs in a kitchen
Green moss with a button placed on top, as if dropped

Playbills 2022-23

A vintage-style poster of a man smoking, his eyes facing forward. The woman he is with is staring forward, eyes wide and expression hard to define.
robert munsch illustration of one kid yelling from their window, two other children looking up in wonder
A smiling rabbit
Photo taken from below four buildings, looking upwards to the sky. The building are so tall that it gives a sense of wonder.
Four school girls sliding down firemen's poles inside their boarding school

Previous Graduates

2023 GRADUATES

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The Young Centre for the Performing Arts was envisioned by George Brown College and Soulpepper Theatre Company to be a home to Toronto’s arts community and a destination for all theatre lovers. Anchored by the presence of Soulpepper’s year-round repertory season and George Brown College’s Theatre School, the Young Centre provides a home for both the leading artists of today, as well as the arts leaders of tomorrow.