Acting for Stage and Screen BA (Hons)

University of Staffordshire

This highly practical degree introduces you to acting and drama techniques via practical workshops. Your theoretical knowledge will also grow out of your experience in the studio. Assessments are built around performance and filmed work too as well as practice as research. Youll also work with students in animation and film on various digital media projects. The aim of our Acting for Stage and Screen degree is to create skilled creative practitioners with an ability to work across all performance mediums, balancing acting for TV, film and digital media alongside theatre.While the focus is on theatre-making, the transferable skills you develop can prepare you for a range of careers. It could include postgraduate study to become a teacher, as well as work in the wider performing arts and creative industries. Acting, drama and theatre-making workshops form the basis of your course, with further classes developing your critical, contextual and evaluative skills.CareersThis degree will prepare you for a variety of professions associated with performing arts. Many of our graduates now work as actors and directors.Our graduates are also successful in related areas, such as drama and English teaching and drama therapy, following relevant postgraduate study. Other drama department graduates have applied their skills and now work as stage managers, youth theatre directors, independent practitioners, arts administrators and theatre managers.

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