Training Opportunity

BA (Hons) Acting

Revolutionary drama school training in North London

Fourth Monkey’s BA (Hons) Acting Degree offers some of the most comprehensive and contemporary training for artists entering the industry today. An intensive approach incorporates all the relevant disciplines vital for a successful career in this ever-changing and rapidly-diversifying industry.

The training includes five public performance seasons, one being an industry showcase, as well as a professionally produced acting showreel and voice reel.

With an alumni employment rate of 84% within 12 months of graduation, Fourth Monkey’s BA (Hons) Acting Accelerated Degree is suitable for those looking to forge a career as a professional actor and theatre maker. Fourth Monkey’s Acting Degree offers innovative and cutting-edge actor training with opportunities unparalleled in contemporary actor training.

This course provides students with the unique experience of training in an ensemble environment. You will learn by working alongside established industry professionals, whilst also creating and producing your own work and becoming industry ready. Gain the skills necessary for a career of longevity and variety with this revolutionary training and Fourth Monkey’s ethos of ensemble.

There are also opportunities to gain a bursary for the winner of Fourth Monkey’s Experimental Fringe Project, professional and paid employment with our professional ensemble company, the Fourth Monkey Ensemble, and continued professional career development, maintenance and guidance through masterclasses and workshops on Fourth Monkey’s Actor’s Co-Lab programme post-graduation.

FALMOUTH UNIVERSITY AND FOURTH MONKEY ACTOR TRAINING COMPANY PARTNERSHIP

Fourth Monkey’s BA (Hons) Acting accelerated degree is awarded by Falmouth University, which has been ranked gold in the Teaching Excellence Framework, the new classification of degree teaching standards. Gold is reserved for institutions where teaching, retention and graduate outcomes are consistently outstanding and are of the highest quality found in the UK.

Falmouth University has a history of over 100 years at the leading edge of creativity and is now at the forefront of driving innovation and entrepreneurialism across the creative economy with its mission of ‘‘doing it for real’’.

Below is an outline of the key features of the programme:

  • 40+ hours per week contact training time
  • Training with internationally renowned practitioners, working professionals and internationally renowned and award-winning theatre companies
  • British Academy of Stage and Screen Combat (BASSC) certifications
  • Theatre making training and opportunities
  • Professionally produced actor’s showreel
  • Professionally produced actor’s voice reel
  • Five public performance seasons including an industry showcase
  • Fourth Monkey Experimental Fringe Bursary
  • Opportunity to gain paid employment with Fourth Monkey’s professional ensemble company, Fourth Monkey Ensemble

"The Fourth Monkey training is my personal steel core, I’ll always have it and I can depend on it. This place is me and I am this place. I’m so proud to be a graduate of this school.” - Amy Rushnet, Alumni 2019

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