BA (Hons) Acting at Anglia Ruskin University

Reach your potential on this conservatoire-style course designed to build your creative skills including live performance, screen acting and motion capture. Grow into a confident and versatile performer. Focus on fundamental acting skills, voice and movement, screen acting, and how to rehearse for a full production.

Faculty: Faculty of Arts, Humanities, Education and Social Sciences  |  Department: Cambridge School of Art  |  Duration: 3 years; 4 years with placement  |  Study mode: full-time (placement year available)  |  Intake: September 2027  |  Location: Chelmsford, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

In your first year, you’ll be introduced to effective working methodologies in both performance and production, producing a studio-based collaborative live performance, developing core physical and vocal skills and being introduced to acting for the camera. In your second year, you’ll work with an experienced theatre director as a member of a production company, creating a theatre piece for live performance. Year 1: Studio Performance, Voice and Movement, Introduction to Screen Acting, Fundamentals for Acting. Year 2: Ruskin Module, Performance Project, Physical Theatre, Performance Technologies, Performing Shakespeare, Storytelling on Screen: Collaborative Project; options include Directing and Choreography. Year 3: Immersive Performance, Showcase, Creative Industries Major Project.

Career pathways

We've done different shows with different instructors, and they all have different methods to how they direct. I think that's invaluable.

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