About Us
Tarlington Training is Vancouver’s longest running acting studio for children, youth and teens. It is known and respected across Canada in the entertainment industry.
Since 1993, we have offered classes and workshops to working and aspiring young actors. We provide a place where actors can continue their artistic growth and develop their confidence while acquiring the skills necessary to work on stage and screen. Since its inception, Tarlington Training programs have helped hundreds of young actors realize their dreams of working professionally. Additionally we have helped many more young people learn valuable life skills that have stood them in good stead as they have matured and gone on to be successful in other fields.
Our instructors are expert, experienced acting professionals who are fully trained in the craft of acting and skilled in working with youth, teens and adult actors. Tarlington Training instructors have impressive acting resumes and most of them have had careers as child actors, which gives them a unique perspective when working with young actors.
Tarlington Training methods are unique to our studio and have been developed over years of experience under the direction of Carole Tarlington. Tarlington Training is committed to developing Canadian talent for the film and television industry and also to developing young people’s confidence and creative skills.
We are student focused and believe in honesty, professionalism and commitment.
Tarlington Training in the studio – a short video featured on The Express.
About Carole Tarlington….
Carole Tarlington
Carole Tarlington is a legend in Vancouver’s film and television industry. For over twenty years, she has trained, nurtured and discovered actors who have appeared in film and television in Canada, the U.S. and around the world, including Kristin Kreuk (“Smallville”), Brendan Fletcher (Freddy Vs Jason); Cole Heppell (The Girl with the Red Riding Hood, Diary of a Wimpy Kid) Jesse Moss (The Big Year, Bond of Silence) Amanda Crew (Charlie St, Cloud, Whistler), Tegan Moss (Flashpoint, Fringe) Joely Collins (The Love Crimes of Gillian Guess) Ryan Reynolds (The Proposal, The Green Lantern) Emily Hirst (Stranger With My Face, Blade) and Jessica Amlee ( Heartland and youngest Leo Award winner ever for Love Crimes Of Gillian Guess) Laine MacNeil (Diary of a Wimpy Kid 1 and 2) Carole’s advice is ought by film and television Directors, Producers and Casting Directors. She has been involved in many aspects of the business (Acting Coach, Casting Director, Talent Agent) and has received numerous awards for her contribution to the industry, including BC Film Award; ,Woman of Distinction Award – Arts and Culture; Excellence in Race Relations Award; B.C. Educator’s Award for outstanding contribution to the young people of B.C. and The Woman of the Year Award for Women in Film and Television.
Carole is in demand as a Keynote Speaker, Artist in Residence and Workshop Leader at conferences, Universities and schools around the world. Founder of the award winning Vancouver Youth Theatre, she established the reputation of the theatre internationally, creating many original plays with young people and touring them across Canada, the U.S., Australia, England, Scotland and Japan.
She is co-author of three internationally known Drama Texts, (Building Plays, Role Drama and Offstage, Elementary Education Through Drama. She holds a Masters of Education and a Bachelor of Education from Victoria University B.C.