The Course
You will leave with the skills, knowledge and confidence to build a career as a designer within the performing arts.
You will be seen as a creative, ambitious and multiskilled designer, equally at home designing the sets and costume for a play in a theatre or leading a site-specific art/performance event or creating the environment and lighting for a music gig.
This is a practical course with a strong emphasis on realised performance work every year.
Average places available: Up to 18 each year
Career prospects
You will possess an extensive range of skills and experience in performance design and an in depth knowledge of the arts and entertainment economy that will equip you for a fulfilling and successful career in this exciting and challenging field of work.
Many graduates are enjoying careers in fields such as theatre design, architectural lighting, art direction for film and TV, prop making, museum design, concert lighting and costume design.
The Graduates
Theatre and Performance Design and Technology graduates are forging their careers across the industry in such roles as Stage and Costume Designer at the Q-Theatre in Finland, Chief Technician at the Everyman and Playhouse in Liverpool, Inhouse Lighting Designer for the National Theatre of Cyprus, Prop Maker for the world’s largest producer of pantomime, Chief LX and Lighting Designer at the National Touring Theatre in Norway.
Many work on a freelance basis : some of their credits include Set and Costume Designer for the West End production of Fame and Footloose, Wardrobe Mistress on the West End production of 39 Steps, Stage Manager for international touring show of Kneehigh’s Rapunzel, set decoration for the American TV programme: Project Runway and set design for 106 and Park.
Others are working in art direction for film and TV in the UK, Germany and America.