Success Stories | Acting

Congratulations to New Image College alum Dakota Daulby, whose film Tight Lettuce won the Gold Audience Award for Best Québec Feature at the 30th Fantasia International Film Festival in July 2026. Directed by Harrison Houde, Tight Lettuce is a bilingual Quebec drama based on a true story about a son trying to save his father […]

NIC grad Nawarash Ghimire builds a directing career back home in Nepal.

NIC grad Rodrigo Portillo Mendoza performs in Theatre Under the Stars.

UBC ACTRA BIPOC honours NIC actors Taninli Wright and Paul Grenier.

Frédérique Levesque, a Film Acting Conservatory graduate, recently completed an ADR translation for the film Bring the Rain, directed by Haley Gray and also featuring fellow NIC talent Ryo Mishima. It was Frédérique’s first time being paid for professional voice work, and the creative team was impressed enough to already want to work with her

Backrooms just made cinema history — and our own Phil Granger is on that screen Backrooms, distributed by A24 and directed by Kane Parsons, opened this weekend as the number one film worldwide — pulling in $118 million in its global debut and breaking multiple box office records in a single weekend. Here’s what that

The NIC actor shines in the world premiere of Corey Payette’s new play.

The NIC graduate carries one of theatre’s most demanding solo works.

The NIC alum brings the comedy How to Survive Being in a Shakespeare Play to the stage.