Our practice-based BA Theatre Production course provides you with professional training in a wide range of production skills.
Guildford School of Acting (GSA) is one of the most highly regarded theatre schools in the UK. You will be joining a vibrant community of performers, performance makers, creative practitioners, and backstage technicians.
You’ll work in close collaboration with fellow students to deliver a variety of productions within our modern, large and well-equipped venues in GSA, the Ivy Arts Centre and Performing Arts Technology Studios (PATS) Theatre.
On our BA Theatre Production course, you‘ll work on a variety of productions including plays, musicals, devised projects and events.
The course begins with a comprehensive introduction to all core subjects relating to professional theatre production. You’ll go on to build experience in a range of skills including sound, lighting, video, stage management, and construction and scenic arts.
As you progress through the course, you’ll be able to select one dedicated area for specialist development, eventually taking production-critical responsibility across a range of public performances within the University and at external venues.
Industry placement and professional development modules are also a core part of this course, and you’ll have the opportunity to showcase your work to the industry through the creation of a final-year presentation.
BA (Hons) Technical Theatre and Stage Management is designed to equip students with the knowledge and skills to pursue a career in the live arts, entertainment, and events industry. The programme focuses on developing theatre professionals with a theoretical and vocational understanding of theatre industry roles and responsibilities, including academic knowledge and practical experience of the following subjects: stage management; stage lighting; live audio; design for the stage; health and safety; and the technical standards for places of entertainment.
The Technical Theatre and Stage Management programme takes a forward-facing approach to technical theatre, promotes exploration of new practices and technologies, teaches the fundamentals of the industry, and balances vocational training with academic study.
This degree has been designed to develop industry techniques and to nurture the next generation of highly competent industry professionals, with the opportunity to gain knowledge and experience working in a number of professional theatre settings.
Students have regular access to the Lincoln Performing Arts Centre, a well-equipped, multi-functional venue with a professional theatre and multiple studio spaces. The theatre presents a varied programme of live performance and events throughout the year.
This course is in the School of Arts and Creative Industries
The course develops diverse skills in the world of make-up and hair to produce flexible creative make-up artists able to work in a variety of areas of the industry from special effects to fashion and from live events to film TV and stage productions.
This course prepares you for a career as a make-up artist in television film theatre prosthetics advertising and fashion with a special focus on creating convincing and realistic special effects. It gives you the techniques craft skills and specialist knowledge employers are looking for.
You learn to research and realise characters through hair and wig setting; postiche; costume; prop design; prosthetics; and designing effects make-up.
You benefit from working within our high-spec media facilities alongside student actors producers scriptwriters and presenters as well as collaborating with local theatres TV productions and performances at the University’s professional theatre
Learn how to become an imaginative, well-rounded actor on this innovative course that combines creative practice, critical thinking, and social enterprise to help you develop a distinct artistic vision and skillset for your entry into the performing arts and related industries.
Taught through practice, you will explore twenty-first-century acting techniques and a wide range of creative and critical approaches that will prepare you to become a multiskilled, initiative-taking theatre-maker.
This course integrates technology with performance, equipping you with the skills and knowledge to join the industry in the twenty-first century.
Flexibility is built into the course to enable you to personalise your artistic development and become the creative practitioner you wish to be!
