Acting
Acting Academy
Screen acting craft built around camera performance, character work and studio drama production.
- Duration
- 6 months
- Intake
- To Be Announced
Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation
Shape Your Future in Television and Media
Practical, studio-based training in acting, presenting, camera, lighting and voice — taught by working broadcast professionals inside Sri Lanka's national television facilities.
The Academy
Where Media Talent Meets Industry Experience
The National Television Academy is the training arm of the Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation. Students learn where national television is made — from the studio floor to the gallery, the lighting grid to the dubbing booth.
Programmes are short, intensive and practical. Every course ends with produced work: a teledrama, a live bulletin, a lighting portfolio or a voice showreel that begins a professional career.
Discover Our Story
1982
SLRC Established
1998
Digital Upgrade
3
Languages of Broadcasting
Industry
Focused Practical Training
Programmes
Featured Courses
Four programmes covering performance, presenting, technical craft and voice.
Most Popular
Presenting
Television Presenting
Anchoring, live links and interview craft for news, magazine and entertainment television.
- Duration
- 4 months
- Intake
- To Be Announced
Technical
Camera & Lighting
Broadcast camera operation, composition and studio lighting design on professional equipment.
- Duration
- 6 months
- Intake
- To Be Announced
Voice
Dubbing & Voice Performance
Lip-sync dubbing, narration and character voice work in a professional recording booth.
- Duration
- 3 months
- Intake
- To Be Announced
Why the Academy
Why Choose the National Television Academy
01
Practical Training First
Classroom theory is kept short. Most contact hours are spent on the floor, in the booth or behind a camera.
02
Experienced Media Professionals
Courses are taught by working directors, presenters, technicians and producers from national broadcasting.
03
Studio-Focused Learning
Students train inside genuine broadcast studios with the same equipment used for daily transmission.
04
Career-Oriented Creative Education
Every course ends with a produced piece — a showreel, a drama or a bulletin — that starts a professional portfolio.
Heritage
Four Decades of National Broadcasting
The academy stands on the history of the Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation.
1982
Established by Act of Parliament
The Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation was created under an Act of Parliament, with a commission appointed to establish national television broadcasting.
1982
Founded under M. J. Perera
The corporation began under the leadership of M. J. Perera, with technical and financial support from Japan enabling the first studios and transmission network.
1986
Studio Expansion
Production capacity grew with additional studio facilities, expanding locally produced drama, current affairs and educational programming.
1998
Digital Upgrade
A major grant funded a digital upgrade of production and transmission equipment, modernising the corporation's broadcast infrastructure.
Today
Three National Channels
Rupavahini, Channel Eye and Nethra TV broadcast nationally, and the National Television Academy trains the next generation of media professionals within these facilities.
Admissions Open
Turn Your Passion Into a Profession
Applications are accepted across all four programmes. Choose your course, submit your application and book your audition or assessment.
Student Experience
Life at the Academy
Studio-Based Learning
Scheduled access to broadcast studios, galleries and control rooms.
Practical Production Work
Crewed productions where every student rotates through real roles.
Student Showcase
End-of-term screenings of student drama, bulletins and short films.
Industry Workshops
Guest sessions with directors, editors and broadcast engineers.
Media Equipment Access
Cameras, lighting kits, editing suites and recording booths.
Peer Creative Community
A trilingual cohort of performers, technicians and storytellers.
News & Events
Latest from the Academy
Intake[PLACEHOLDER date]
Applications Open for the New Academy Intake
Applications are now being accepted across all four academy programmes.
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Studio Lighting Masterclass with SLRC Technicians
A one-day masterclass on studio lighting design for drama and talk formats.
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Student Teledrama Production Wraps Filming
The graduating Acting Academy cohort completed its studio teledrama.
Read more →Announcement[PLACEHOLDER date]
Trilingual Presenting Sessions Added to the Timetable
Additional Sinhala, Tamil and English anchoring practice slots are now scheduled.
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Get in Touch
Contact details below are placeholders pending official confirmation.
- National Television Academy, Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation, Independence Square, Colombo 07, Sri Lanka
- 011 2587352
- re.slrupavahini@gmail.com
- Monday – Friday: 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM · Saturday: 8:30 AM – 12:30 PM · Sunday & Public Holidays: Closed