Musical Theatre & Acting for Film BA (Hons)

The degree offers you a focus on developing your practical skills in either vocal performance, a range of dance performance styles, or on acting skills of a musical theatre practitioner. Combining these skills with screen acting development offers an opportunity to position you with a very strong offer for future performance work. As well as practical screen acting you'll acquire a broader knowledge of other aspects of film and screen acting and its history, and develop a parallel understanding of musical theatre and how this contributes to and reflects culture. You'll acquire a toolkit of vocational knowledge in work based modules designed to help you to work in a variety of roles, and to develop real understanding of the challenges of work in a professional environment.

Students will have the opportunity to develop a broad range of skills to enhance employability in a range of areas beyond University. Course progression within the department has been very high, with a number of students going on to further study at master's level in some of the most prestigious conservatoires in the country and in PGCE teacher training. As performers, alumni have gone into: West End productions, major touring productions throughout Europe, major cruise ships including Disney, UK and International small-scale touring theatre, Film and TV in both the UK and US, Edinburgh Festival, Cabaret and stage managers, arts managers and producers picking up contracts in the UK and around the world.