Our acting instructors have developed careers in film, television, and theatre. We offer an outstanding career training program with high-quality instruction in each department: acting, voice, and movement. Under our faculty’s training, our students have gone on to successful acting careers — some working with A-list actors.
Faculty may vary slightly year to year due to instructors’ work obligations.
Ian Ferguson
Ian Ferguson moved to Victoria three years ago to take the position of Creative Director for Less Bland Productions, producing & directing the first season of ‘She Kills Me’ for APTN, and…
Kara Flanagan
Kara Flanagan is one of the founders of the Victoria Academy of Dramatic Arts. As an Administrator, she works on new program and business development for the school.
Roderick Glanville
Roderick has a wide range of professional performance credits as an actor on film, TV, commercial, documentary, radio and stage. His training started with The National Film Board in Toronto as principal actor in the short Nothing Personal.
Trevor Hinton
Trevor brings an accessible, practical approach to fight choreography for film, television and the stage thanks to over twenty years as a combat martial artist as well as more than a decade of work as a professional actor.
Amanda Lisman
A graduate of the University of Victoria (BA in Anthropology), the University of Alberta (BFA in Acting), The Citadel/Banff Theatre Program and The Stratford Festival’s Birmingham Conservatory, Amanda works across Canada, including…
Kevin Matwiv
imdb.com/… Courses taught Education & Training Biography Kevin has been performing improv and sketch comedy in Toronto for the past thirteen years.Past performance credits include: S#@t My Mayor Says, Best. Monday. Ever., Best of theSecond City and The Dysfunctional Holiday Revue for The Second City National TouringCompany and The Best is Yet to Come Undone…
Jonathan Mason
Jonathan Mason is a Masters with Distinction Graduate from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts and local Vancouver actor. Jonathan has worked professionally in Canada and abroad.
Joe McCoy
Joe McCoy is the Senior Educational Administrator. A graduate of the William B. Davis Centre for Actor’s Study, he is a gifted teacher of the craft he has been honing for many years as an actor and as a director.
Britt Small
Britt has over 20 years experience as a director, producer, performer, curator, storyteller and teacher. She is the Co-Founder of Atomic Vaudeville Theatre Company and performs musically as Boss Saint B. She created the show REALBOY for Intrepid’s UNO Festival and played Pseudolus in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum at BlueBridge…
Jason Stevens
Jason Stevens is a classically trained actor from the prestigious Drama Centre London, where he studied under the legendary founders Yat Malmgren and Christopher Fettes.
Adam Thomas
Graduated from the Acting for the Camera Program at Capilano University. Quickly signed on with an agent and began working on lots of the film and TV programs as well as commercials being shot in Vancouver.
Kirsten Van Ritzen
Kirsten has worked across Canada and is a very busy professional actor, producer and writer. She has performed hundreds of improv shows.
Joanne Wilson
Joanne brings a wealth of experience to the classroom, both as an acting instructor and a working actor. Most recently she has been seen in supporting-lead and major principal roles for Hallmark, GACTV, Lifetime and various streaming platforms. Selected credits include Cranberry Christmas, A Christmas Star, Love at the Ranch, Open for Submission, Tron Legacy, The Mermaid Chair, Trophy Wife, Augusta Gone. Selected TV credits include Motive, The Intruders, Arrow, The L Word.