Training Opportunity

BA Acting

Collective Acting Studio's BA Acting degree course offers full-time industry-focused actor-training.

This course places a strong emphasis on screen acting – with 50% of the curriculum devoted to this area of the industry – alongside a rigorous training for the stage.

During our BA Acting you will:

  1. Perform in two full-length public theatre productions
  2. Take part in a West End industry showcase
  3. Make an original feature film

There will also be an emphasis on fostering the skills needed to create your own work – such as screenwriting and producing.

Study in state-of-the-art theatre and studio spaces situated in our beautiful Grade 2-listed building – just 10 minutes from London’s West End.

At Collective we champion groups who have traditionally been underrepresented within the Performing Arts – specifically in terms of ethnicity, disability and class.

Belong to a diverse and inclusive community where everyone is welcome!


Being in a Collective class, is like entering a room full of energy. Where actors will constantly be pushing forward their work as actors – and more importantly as creatives. Everyone is offered a chance for their input on the work, and the teachers set a culture of holding ourselves as a creative to a high standard.

BONY FONSECA, BBC’S EASTENDERS


The Curriculum:

YEAR 1

In the first year, the curriculum will help you develop your acting techniques for Realism.

Projects include:

  1. Acting for Camera
  2. Scene Studies of Plays by Global Writers
  3. Practitioner Lab: Stanislavsky, Meisner, Laban and Katie Mitchell
  4. Voice
  5. Movement
  6. Accent/Dialect
  7. Character Transformation
  8. Filming a Web Series
  9. Creating your Own Work

YEAR 2

During the second year you will undertake more stylised and genre-based forms of acting.

Projects include:

  1. Scene Study: American Film and Television
  2. American Accents
  3. Self-Tapes
  4. Voice for Animation and Audiobooks
  5. Radio
  6. Acting in different Film Genres
  7. Audio Dialogue Replacement (ADR)
  8. Screenwriting
  9. Shakespeare
  10. Devising, Puppetry and Physical Theatre
  11. Motion Capture
  12. Producing a Short Film

YEAR 3

The final year will focus on public performance and preparation for the industry.

Projects include:

  1. Research and Development for New Writing
  2. Feature-Film Project
  3. Public Production of Two Full-Length Plays
  4. Voicereels
  5. Showreels
  6. Audition Technique
  7. Industry Showcase

Entrance to the course is via audition.

 

Requirements

The standard minimum academic entry requirements for this course are one, or a combination, of the following qualifications:

- 2 A Levels at grade C or above
- Merit, Pass, Pass (MPP) at BTEC Extended Diploma
- Access to Higher Education Diploma

If a candidate passes the audition process, but does not meet the minimum academic requirements, they may still be offered a place if their audition is deemed outstanding.

Read me aloud