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 creative, ambitious and multiskilled, equally at home designing the sets and costume for a theatre production 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.
Each year we conduct a survey of our alumni who graduated almost four years earlier to find out what they did after leaving us. You can see the results of the latest survey by clicking on the factsheet image:
The Graduates
Theatre and Performance Design and Technology graduates have progressed to work in diverse organisations including
- Aardman Animation Studios
- Adlib Audio
- Apollo Victoria Theatre (Wicked)
- BBC News and Sport
- BSkyB
- Bush Theatre
- Cardiff Millennium Centre
- Cirque Du Soleil, Macau
- Crucible, Sheffield
- De Montfort Hall, Leicester
- Disney, Florida
- Donmar Warehouse
- Drammen Theatre, Norway
- Guggenheim Museum, Venice
- Lichfield Garrick
- Lime Pictures (Hollyoaks)
- Liverpool Echo Arena and Conference Centre
- Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse
- Liverpool Philharmonic Hall
- Liverpool O2 Academy
- National Theatre of Cyprus
- Nickelodeon
- No Fit State Circus
- Octagon Theatre, Bolton
- Oslo Nye Theatre
- Pleasance Ltd
- PRG
- Royal Caribbean International
- Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool
- SHUNT
- Sky News
- Stadttheater, Giessen
- The National Theatre
- The RSC
- In lighting design for The Wombats, The XX, Sleigh Bells, Bat for Lashes, Frankie Boyle, Jimmy Carr; touring automation for Girls Aloud, Keane, Kings of Leon, Coldplay, and Sigur Ros.
Theatre design credits include Fame, Footloose, Flashdance, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Never Forget; TV design includes Life on Mars, Project Runway, Big Brother and more. Graduates are employed in stage management, set and costume design, prop making, lighting technology, live theatre sound, model making, wardrobe supervision, scenic construction, TV camerawork, corporate events, AV design, video editing, rigging and flying control, puppetry, and architectural lighting design.