Acting

About this programme

This is a highly vocational programme with a conservatoire-style intensity of focus. It is delivered by our talented teaching staff who have worked around the world as actors, directors, stage managers, and technicians. The course combines elements of traditional actor training with specialist content in community and theatre-in-education work alongside outdoor and site-specific performance. As well as mastering body, voice and movement skills you may find yourself performing in schools or at summer festivals. You will work in a variety of genres and repertoires, from classical to contemporary, and take part in regular performances so that you graduate ready for professional life on the stage, screen and radio. 94% of Acting students were satisfied with the quality of teaching on their course (National Student Survey 2026). We integrate voice and movement training into project work from the outset on the course and you will learn by doing performance projects in every semester. On the BA Acting programme we are dedicated to developing your own creative voice alongside the training work that we do. Across the degree you will explore a range of different performance forms and genres alongside voice and acting skills. These include staging scripted work in classical and contemporary theatre forms; devising around a text; devising from a concept; screen acting; TIE/Applied theatre work and student-led company and individual projects in your third year alongside directed theatre projects. You will leave knowing how to work with a director; make and develop your own solo and/