Academy of Film, Theatre and Television - AFTT

Dear AFTT Community,

AFTT has a proud legacy of training actors, film makers and stage managers dating back to the early 1990’s. Our community have made outstanding contributions to their industry and enjoyed successes in all areas of the performing arts. Graduates have worked in all major Australian theatre companies, on fringe and independent productions, and on local and international television and films. They have been AACTA and Logie Award recipients and many more receiving theatre and festival award wins and nominations. In every way, the work created over the last 30 years has made an indelible mark on our industry. Now it’s time for AFTT to take the next step in providing the highest quality of training to Australia’s future creative leaders.

We are excited to announce that the Academy of Film, Theatre and Television is officially merging with our sister college, JMC Academy.

Already existing under the broader umbrella of JMC Academy since 2013, AFTT has enjoyed a strong history of working alongside JMC and together, have been able to provide a comprehensive scope of both Vocational and Higher Education programs for our students.

In 2013 we imagined new collaborations as we became sister school to JMC Academy
In 2016 our acting school (ACTT) and a sister film school (IFSS) became AFTT
In 2020 We launched our first Acting degree alongside JMC
In 2022 we delivered that degree across JMC’s campuses in Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney

In 2023 it’s time for us to embrace the enormous opportunity of giving every student access to state of the art facilities and more opportunities than ever to collaborate with JMC students from music, animation, games, audio, entertainment management, design and on more real world projects.

The entire AFTT team are looking forward to continuing to provide world class training and student support with our incredible staff and lecturers. Thank you to the entire AFTT community for helping to foster a brilliant institution, the foundations of which will forever be woven into the fabric and legacy of JMC. We are excited to showcase this new era of the Academy. Follow along over at

Sam, Glen, Woody and Farlie

AFTT alumni , & are part of the team putting Cherry Smoke on at ! Make sure to catch their show that’s sure to pack a punch.

March 24 – April 8.

We love seeing our alumni doing big things!

Cherry Smoke
By James McManus
March 24 – April 8

📸 by

GUNDOG at King's Cross Theatre, 3 - 18 March

Presented by Secret House, winners of Best Independent Production (Albion) at the 2022 Sydney Theatre Awards.

Our Acting 2IC, Jane Angharad and our Grad show Designer James Smithers are currently performing in GUNDOG at King's Cross Theatre. Make sure you get along to see them in this fantastic show!

Ticket link: https://www.kingsxtheatre.com/gundog

We love seeing the collaboration between AFTT & JMC students. Not to mention JMC’s incredible sound studio.
Can’t wait to see the finished product!

Mariah Samrani – Writer/Director
Lucas Smyth (JMC Sound Student)
Xarve Buchholz (Actor, playing Victor in my production VICTORS)

Huge congratulations to and the cast/crew of Albion who have taken out the award for Best Independent Theatre Production at the Sydney Theatre Awards.

This show has a host of AFTT staff and alumni including:
Alec Ebert
Clare Sheridan
Deborah Jones
Georgina Moore
James Smithers
Jane Angharad
Kevin Batliwala
Milly Grindrod
Rhiann Marquez
Shondelle Pratt

What a brilliant achievement, we are incredibly proud of you all

Some gorgeous BTS stills from one of our recent 'Major Project' shoots 🎥🎞🎬

Congrats to the entire crew, we can't wait to see it all come together in the edit

ITS CHRISTMAS! YAY!

AFTT wishes you a very happy FESTIVE SEASON. We hope you are enjoying time with family and friends and celebrating the past year!

Shot from our 2021 Alumni production of 'The Comedy of Errors'.

And just like that, AFTT closed their last production for 2023.

Congratulations to Tier 6C who took their final bow for 'EMERGE' on Thursday night at the .

We are so proud of each and every one of you and we can't wait to see what you do next! 💪😍🥳🤩

LOVE LOVE LOVE 💜💜💜

Congratulations to Tier 6A on their performances in 'EMERGE' debuting at the Sydney Opera House ; their final performance as AFTT students 😍🎉🎀🔓

We are so proud of each and every one of them, and what a brilliant send off after a massive feat! 💪🧠🫀

We love you all so much!! ❣️❣️❣️

Congratulations to our Tier 6B on not only their final performance as AFTT students, but debut performance at the Sydney Opera House !!! 🤩👏

We are endlessly proud of you and everything you've achieved over your time here with us 💜

We can't wait to see what you create next, no doubt flourishing out there in the industry! 👀💡🪩🎯

Some gorgeous photos of graduating company in THIS RESTLESS HOUSE PART 2, performed recently at

This was a phenomenal piece of theatre and we are so proud of the work our students put in! WELL DONE! 💜💜💜

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