BA (Hons) Drama at Anglia Ruskin University

Explore drama and performance-making in professional theatre venues and a wide range of community and industry contexts. With a strong focus on practice-based learning, you'll explore contemporary theatre and screen performance-making. You'll build a portfolio of professional skills for working in the creative industries through collaboration with other creative students, specialist tutors, community partners, and industry professionals.

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

You’ll get straight into the studio and work in a collaborative performance environment, developing theatre-making skills and exploring new drama practices, as well as staging and production. The second year begins with a production at the Mumford Theatre, allowing you to perform in and produce a large-scale public performance from a selected source text. Year 1: Fundamentals for Acting, Researching Performance, Specialist Skills, Introduction to Screen Acting, Studio Project. Year 2: Festive Theatre, Advanced Specialist Skills, Community Theatre Performance, Performance in Context; options include From Performance to Therapy Arts Therapies In Action, Writing for the Stage, Storytelling on Screen Collaborative Project, Performing Shakespeare. Year 3: Creative Industries Major Project, Professional Preparation and Showcase, Site Specific and Immersive Performance.

Career pathways

The difference between not wanting to do a one-minute monologue a few years ago, and now… the confidence to go out there and do that has come from being thrown into uni life. Our Drama degree will give you practical experience as both a performer and stage technician, and the academic understanding you need to be a director, a teacher, or to run your own theatre company.

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