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Masters Degree Description

Our 2-year MFA is a unique vocational training that offers you a full run in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival at the end of your first year and extensive screen acting work and showreel opportunities in your second year.

You will be training within a vibrant, interdisciplinary postgraduate community of film and theatre directors as well as screenwriters and playwrights.

Classes are delivered by staff with extensive industry experience and our programme is respected within the profession. Our graduates have been featured on Netflix, Starz, BBC, Amazon Prime, Channel 4, and ITV, as well as working at the Royal National Theatre, The Traverse, the Lyceum Theatre, Dundee Rep, Bard in the Botanics, London Regent’s Park Open Air theatre, and have been nominated for Olivier and Ian Charlson Awards.

Typical entry point to this course is in September. Please enquire for more information.

To ensure there is sufficient time to process your application, we encourage you to submit your application by the 30th of June.

Entry Requirements

The entry requirement for this course is a Bachelor (Honours) Degree at 2:2 or above in a Drama or Humanities subject.

We may also consider lesser qualifications if you have sufficient professional work experience within the industry.

The application process also includes an audition.

This course has academic entry requirements which are assessed alongside relevant work experience. Full details of any relevant work experience, including references should be submitted with your application and may be considered for entry where the minimum academic entry requirements are below those required.

Usually, unrelated work experience is not considered sufficient for entry without meeting the minimum academic entry requirements. Please contact us with your specific circumstances by submitting an enquiry form above and we will be happy to discuss your options.

If you want to get more information on the admission process, please get in touch with the Postgraduate admissions team by submitting an enquiry form.

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Fees

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Programme Funding

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Student Destinations

This course will give you the skills necessary to work in a variety of areas within the performing arts industry, as well as a wide range of transferable skills (confident communication, leadership, collaborative team working skills, and creative problem solving) that can take you into employment in many other fields.

Career opportunities include:

  • Stage and screen acting
  • Small-scale producing
  • Directing
  • Managing and launching small theatre companies
  • Theatre company management
  • Arts administration
  • Various roles in the entertainment industry which require initiative and creativity
  • Teaching

Module Details

Modules that you will study* as part of this course:

  • Acting: Contemporary Scenes ( CLP11165 )
  • Acting: Heightened Text and Style ( CLP11150 )
  • Advanced Acting for Stage & Screen ( CLP11169 )
  • Festival Preview ( CLP11167 )
  • Festival Production ( CLP11168 )
  • Festival Workshop ( CLP11166 )
  • Film Production I ( CLP11170 )
  • Film Production II ( CLP11171 )
  • Performance Skills ( CLP11159 )
  • Professional Practice ( CLP11172 )
  • Script Analysis For Actors ( CLP11163 )

* These are indicative only and reflect the course structure in the current academic year. Some changes may occur between now and the time that you study.

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