The Course
We aim to produce disciplined, multi-skilled and creative practitioners; thinking actors who want to take responsibility for shaping their own careers. Acting talent alone is not enough to sustain a career.
Therefore, we encourage you to broaden your skills and entrepreneurial outlook - and hence your opportunities for employment.
Increasingly over the three years, we encourage student-led learning as well as providing the ‘directed’ experience of the profession.
Average places available: Up to 30 each year
Career prospects
A high percentage of our final year students secure agent representation within four weeks of their showcase. Our graduates predominately work in repertory and for television. However, the West End (musicals and plays), pantomime, film and radio, Theatre in Education and touring nationally and abroad also feature.
Graduates have also gone on to become directors, producers, musical directors, writers, teachers, casting agents and founders of their own companies.
The Graduates
Here are some examples of the West End and touring shows that have featured our graduates:
Wicked, Mamma Mia!, The Lord Of The Rings, Blood Brothers, Fame, Guys and Dolls, Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story, Jerry Springer The Opera, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Treasure Island, The Jungle Book.
Acting graduates have also performed in critically acclaimed productions of Brighton Rock, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Mary Stuart, A Midsummer’s Nights Dream, Macbeth, RSC’s The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, to name but a few.
Others have had lead roles in popular British TV soaps and dramas such as Hollyoaks, Doctors and The Royal, whilst others have played leads in a variety of prime-time TV dramas such as Vincent, Whitechapel and Cutting It.
Dawn Porter (Acting 2001) writer and presenter. Presented BBC series called Dawn Gets...before presenting a four-part Channel Four documentary series about love.
The BA (Hons) Acting (Performing Arts) programme is in the process of review and revalidation. As a result, there may be some changes to modules and delivery of classes for 2010 entry.