MFA Acting

The program is practice-based and industry-facing, aligned with both the main stage and contemporary art practice. The program gives students the support to develop as theatre directors and, crucially, independent creative producers with the ability to make high quality and innovative performance work.

• Actor and the Text (Core)
• Contemporary Performance Making (Core)
• Devised Project (Core)
• Research Methods in Creative Practice (Core)
• Performance Platform (Core)
• Mental Wealth: Professional Life – Performance Praxis (Core)
• MFA Creative Practice (Core)
• MFA Professional Platform (Core)

Employability:

The work you will be doing with theatre professionals and the constructive help and advice you will receive from professional actors throughout your course is all geared towards helping you establish yourself in the industry. We believe our course helps nurture independent-minded, creative individuals – actors such as the RADA-trained Takunda Kramer, who shone while at the University of East London and has gone on to star with various professional companies as far afield as New York, Dar Es Salaam, and Nairobi.