Prologue by NIDA

The National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) is renowned for training some of the world’s best actors. But for over 30 years, through NIDA Corporate Training, they’ve also equipped Australia’s most innovative business leaders with a unique set of tools and techniques to help them be more effective communicators. Recognising the need to extend this education beyond traditional in-person workshops, and to a much larger market, NIDA tasked Nakatomi with broadening its reach to new audiences.

The bold solution was Prologue by NIDA, an innovative learning system designed to address the soft skills training needs of a new generation of professionals. The first course, Act Natural, uses the foundation of acting training to help you craft a persona that suits any room — and anyone. This groundbreaking course takes the core of the NIDA classroom experience and reimagines it as self-directed learning they can do anywhere. Learning from the media habits of Gen Zs and early Millennials, the hands-on and platform-jumping lessons are carefully crafted to deliver hard-to-teach lessons, to a hard-to-reach audience.

NIDA Corporate Training successful courses offer in-person lessons to industry leaders and senior professionals. Nakatomi needed to create a business that leverages their existing IP, but delivered a completely different experience. Prologue by NIDA’s innovative content, form factor, and design style was a complete departure from NIDA’s branded house. By designing for a specific audience, Prologue by NIDA was deliberately designed not to feel like education or professional development, but a whole new experience for users and managers alike.

Prologue by NIDA puts environmental sustainability in the forefront, using only eco-conscious materials and packaging solutions. The book is produced locally in Sydney with our sustainable printing partner and uses 100% renewable GreenPower. The materials are made from recycled fibre and are 100% recyclable without compromising on quality. Prologue by NIDA delivers its content primarily through an illustrated book sectioned into 5 ‘Acts’, with lessons divided into smaller bite-sized chapters, also called ‘Scenes’. For an audience accustomed to lightning-fast content pieces, the lessons are taught succinctly and in the most interesting way possible — so they only need to take fifteen to thirty minutes of their day, every day. Each page is a surprise; leading to a short story, activity, short film, audio guide, or game, with relatable content written in an easy-to-read, self-aware, and witty tone of voice.