MA Acting
University of Surrey
Key Information
Campus location
Guildford, United Kingdom
Languages
English
Study format
On-Campus
Duration
1 year
Pace
Full time
Tuition fees
GBP 22,000 / per year *
Application deadline
01 Jul 2024
Earliest start date
Sep 2024
* for overseas students | £19,900 for UK students
Introduction
Why Choose This Course
Guildford School of Acting (GSA) is one of the UK’s leading accredited drama schools, providing dedicated conservatoire training within a purpose-built environment on the University of Surrey campus.
GSA’s MA Acting course focuses on practical actor training, provided through a series of project workshops and rehearsals supported by extensive classes in relevant technical skills.
We keep our cohorts small to ensure you get personal attention and contact from our expert teachers, who have extensive first-hand experience in professional theatre in the UK and internationally.
Our campus boasts great transport links to London, so you’ll be close to the heart of the UK theatre in London’s West End.
What You Will Study
Our intensive MA Acting course offers you practical actor training focusing on technical skills in acting, voice, and movement. These support a range of rehearsal projects, screen acting projects, and public performances. You’ll also take professional development workshops to help build a bridge between your training and the profession. Your performance opportunities will include a short film project, a public production, and an industry digital showcase.
Professional Recognition
MA - Council for Dance, Drama, and Musical Theatre (CDMT)
Accredited by the Council for Dance Education and Training (CDET).
Admissions
Curriculum
Modules listed are indicative, reflecting the information available at the time of publication. Please note that modules may be subject to teaching availability, student demand, and/or class size caps.
The University operates a credit framework for all taught programs based on a 15-credit tariff. Modules can be either 15, 30, 45, 75, or 120 credits, and additionally for some masters dissertations, 90 credits.
The structure of our programs follows clear educational aims that are tailored to each program. These are all outlined in the programme specifications which include further details such as the learning outcomes:
Year 1 (Full-Time)
- Rehearsal project 1: Shakespeare
- Advanced practice
- Industry Practice and Performance
- Rehearsal project 2: Twentieth-century play
- The integrated body
- The working actor
Timetable
Course timetables are normally available one month before the start of the semester.
Please note that while we make every effort to ensure that timetables are as student-friendly as possible, scheduled teaching can take place on any day of the week (Monday – Friday) between 8 am and 7 pm – additionally, public production modules may require evening and weekend attendance depending on the production schedules.
Program Tuition Fee
Career Opportunities
We offer career information, advice, and guidance to all students whilst studying with us, which is extended to our alumni for three years after leaving the University.
GSA has an excellent reputation as a conservatoire, and graduates are sought for a variety of roles in the performing arts, as performers, creatives, and production staff. We consistently nurture students to become highly employable and resilient graduates, with a sophisticated toolkit of transferable skills. GSA offers careers advice throughout your study course and fully supports students with their first steps into the profession. We strive to ensure that our graduates develop the skills to help them enter the profession industry-ready.
GSA is part of the Federation of Drama Schools (FDS), the Alliance of Musical Theatre Conservatoires (AMTC), and the Global Conservatoire Alliance (GCA).
97 percent of our Guildford School of Acting postgraduate students go on to employment or further study (Graduate Outcomes 2023, HESA).
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