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Foundation Acting (Stage & Screen) Course Overview Foundation Acting (Stage & Screen)  Course Overview

Our course is aimed at people who are passionate about a career as a performer. It’s an opportunity to immerse yourself in rigorous actor training that will prepare you for auditions and accredited drama school degree-level training.

Intensive, highly practical and industry focused, the course enables you to develop your individuality and authenticity as an actor. It will equip you with essential storytelling and stylistic skills as you create a portfolio of contemporary, classical and digital audition material that is uniquely suited to you, helping you to stand out from the crowd. The course culminates in a performance project where you bring together all you have learnt.

Accredited By:

Accredited by Federation of Drama Schools Accredited by CDMT

What You Will

Study

  • Year 1

How You Will

Study

  • Technical Skills Classes
    Technical Skills Classes
  • Performances
    Performances
  • Seminars
    Seminars
  • Workshops
    Workshops
  • Independent study
    Independent study
  • Group work
    Group work
  • Masterclasses
    Masterclasses

How You Will Be

Assessed

Your assessment predominantly takes place during your practical classes and rehearsals, performances and your reflective exercises.

Practical/written work ratio

85% practical work / 15% portfolio

What Our

Graduates Do

The course aims to equip our graduates to go on to further training with us or at other specialist, accredited drama schools that are oversubscribed with acting applicants.

If you decide to apply for one of our Acting degrees, you will still need to go through our regular audition process, alongside other applicants. Progression on to one of our degrees is not guaranteed. However, the course will give you an understanding of what we look for in a degree level student and our institutional ethos, making it great preparation for an audition.

Graduates from our previous foundation courses have gone on to study degrees with us and other institutions, including Arts Ed, Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Drama Centre, East 15, Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, Rose Bruford, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. Others have successfully launched careers as actors, writers, directors, filmmakers and formed their own companies.

Entry

Requirements

64

UCAS tariff points required from level 3 qualifications

For example:

  • Two A Levels at grade C or above
  • BTEC Extended Diploma: MPP
  • BTEC Diploma: MM
  • T level: P (D or E)
  • International Baccalaureate Diploma: Pass including 64 points from Higher Level subjects

You also need 5 GCSEs grade 4/C or above including English and Maths or Level 2 equivalents.

Mature applicants (aged 21+): if you do not hold the qualifications listed but have relevant work experience, you are welcome to apply. Your application will be considered on an individual basis.

5.5

IELTS or above

You need to meet our English language requirement - a minimum of IELTS 5.5 for each of the 4 individual components (Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening). We also accept other English language examination equivalents. You can find out more about English Language requirements here 

You also need academic qualifications at the same level as UK applicants. You can find out more about qualifications from specific countries here

Mature applicants (aged 21+). If you do not hold the academic qualifications but have relevant work experience, you are welcome to apply.  

Educational qualifications are important but limited in what they can tell us about you.

Your natural ability, your fit with what and how we teach, your growth and your potential are also key factors in our admission process. We can’t evaluate these solely on your educational achievements, so no matter which course you are applying for, we look for the following attributes on your application and at the interview stage.

Key

Attributes

Course Changes

For information on possible changes to course information, see our course changes information page.

View the programme specification on the LJMU course catalogue here