NEXT time you see some of the acting students from the 2015 USQ Actor Showcase, they might be a very well-known person said USQ Arts and Communications lecturer Scott Alderdice.

"That's when you can say 'I saw them back then when they did their final performance in their training'," he said.

Mr Alderdice has directed the showcase for 16 years, with this year's show held on November 5 and 6, and said the graduates were ready to present their skills and capabilities to the professional industry.

"A showcase introduces the graduate actors to the industry so it's a show, first of all in Toowoomba, so that people who have been following them over the last two years can come and have a look at them," Mr Alderdice said.

"Then they do a second show in Brisbane where only industry people come along and see them.

"In both performances you will see their showreels and live performance scenes so the showcase demonstrates their skills in both live performance and video scenes."