HND Musical Theatre is a diverse course designed to push you towards your performing potential. This multi-faceted course will test your skills in acting, singing and dancing with a view to progressing to a career in the exciting industry of musical theatre.

Performing Arts Studio Scotland (PASS) has a range of exceptional professional facilities including the Pass studio theatre as well as dance, acting and aerial studios

You will gain essential experience through practical and theoretical studies, which include varied acting techniques, vocal training using Estill and other practices, jazz, tap dance, musical theatre repertoire, and production. Opportunities to visit theatres and take part in industry-run workshops will be available through PASS industry connections. As part of this course, you will participate in exciting projects and musical theatre productions.

Upon completion, you will be qualified for further study of musical theatre at a university level. This course also offers exciting opportunities for collaboration with other students at Edinburgh College including make-up artists, costume designers and technical theatre designers. You will meet previous PASS students who have become theatre professionals at our inspiring PASS It On sessions throughout the year.

You will leave this course having learned how to take a simple idea, and expand and explore it until becomes a final product; bringing it to life in musical form.

Technical Theatre is a creative and innovative course that will teach you behind-the-scenes of the theatre and live events industry.

Performing Arts Studio Scotland (PASS) has exceptional, professional standard, facilities including a studio theatre that seats up to 128 people as well as dance, acting and aerial studios.

Technical Theatre students will have access to professional studios where they will bring their set/lighting/sound designs to life and will learn skills in stage lighting, sound, stage management, props and set construction. Upon completion, you will be qualified for further study at the university level or direct entry into the industry.

In your first year, explore your creative potential and discover backstage theatre disciplines such as; stage management, props sourcing, scenic painting, professional development, stage sound and lighting operation. You will complete a practical work placement in industry, with a company of your choosing, and you will be able to utilise our established industry connections to aid your decision. You will gain essential experience in working environments and make crucial connections with industry professionals.

Advancing onto your second year you will discover dynamic skills in advanced stage management, advanced lighting, advanced sound, audiovisual studies and prop making. You will oversee and manage the technical departments during PASS theatre shows and mentor the year one students on productions.

A qualification in Technical Theatre and Production Arts opens the doors to many different career opportunities within the theatre, events as well as related industries such as live events, outdoor events, live music, conferences, cruises, film and television.

Let your career take centre stage as you gain professional musical theatre skills and industry experience. You’ll be given the opportunity to develop sector-specific knowledge within contemporary and jazz dance styles, singing and vocal techniques alongside exploring acting skills. With all these combined, you will apply them to a variation of musicals, performing in different spaces throughout the year and executing your final performance in the Chroma-Q Theatre.

You will focus on various styles and techniques, choreograph performance work and collaborate with other disciplines, all of which will prepare you for the working world or progression onto level 3.

You will learn how to

- Develop skills in Dance styles and techniques with Musical Theatre
- Explore professional development needs
- Develop and create a collaborative performance
- Present an audition portfolio
- Apply your skills to a performance

Cost for adults (aged 19 and over)*: £2,111 plus exam fee of £114

The two-term L2 Certificate in Music Technology focuses on the development of music production skills. You will work on production technique for computer based electronic music as well as developing skills in recording live performers. This is an accredited course, meaning upon successful completion you will gain a L2 Certificate in Music Technology. The course runs on-site all-day Thursday. You will be expected to do independent learning between weekly sessions.

An internationally unique course which trains you to create, explore, examine and expand queer performance practice.
The first and only MA of its kind to focus on queer performance, this course offers broad training in a range of queer performance practice, delivered by renowned queer artists, theatre-makers, academics, and researchers.

Fiercely socially engaged, political, experimental, and interdisciplinary, the course provides an in-depth, comprehensive examination of queer performance practice, studying its themes, methodologies, and untapped possibilities.

By collaborating closely with other queers in a supportive context, the course develops and expands your individual practice by offering opportunities to contextualise your work while collaborating with others.

We welcome all students with an interest in engaging with queer performance, whether primarily as maker (in theatre, live art, drag, cabaret, writing, video and moving image, sound art, digital arts), researcher, critic, facilitator or producer.

Duration: 15 or 28 months

Discover how to turn your passion for music into a rewarding career. Whether you want to be a performer or producer, engineer or songwriter, DJ or rock guitarist, this course is a starting point for all those careers. To develop your skills, enhance your academic ability and enjoy your music through study, you’ll work with a small group and try many different genres and techniques.

- Work as a team with other musicians and producers to create your own unique sound
- Utilize practical performance skills and technical production skills
- Build skills in your chosen specialist area in our outstanding facilities
- Gain confidence in your ability as a musician

Progression may include a level 2 qualification, an apprenticeship, or relevant employment.

Excel backstage with this creative course. You will also gain technical skills in lighting and sound, understanding how the different disciplines of theatre production work in tandem to create a captivating audience experience. You’ll also acquire knowledge of production skills such as technical theatre, set and props, and stage management.

- Prepare for a performing arts production as part of a technical team.
- Develop production skills in technical theatre.
- Get to grips with stage management and how to run a successful production.
- Focus on your professional development by creating a portfolio of work.

Become industry-ready with this intensive course focusing on practical, professional experience with some of the biggest names in UK set construction.

Why study scenic construction at RWCMD?
- Extensive industry experience forms the foundation of this two-year programme, which is the only one of its kind in the country. You’ll have hands-on training in constructing theatrical sets, both for RWCMD productions and during a series of different placements with our professional partners in the theatre, TV and film industries.

- These partners are some of the biggest scenic construction organisations in the UK, such as Cardiff Theatrical Services , Bay Productions, 4Wood and Wild Creations.

- With only eight places available each year, our training offers you a substantial amount of personal attention from our experienced practictioners who are experts in their field, and you’ll be treated as a professional from day one.

- When you’re not on placement you’ll be based at our fully fitted workshops at Llanishen Studios, where you will be taught carpentry, metal fabrication, drawing software for computers, as well as programming our CNC machine to cut out complicated shapes in sheet material.

- You’ll get a real feel for what it’s like working alongside practitioners from other areas of production. For example, in our workshops you’ll train alongside Design for Performance and Stage Management students, collaborating with them to present innovative and inspiring projects at RWCMD and on your placement.

- Your practical work will be prominent on the stages of our theatre spaces for RWCMD’s drama, opera and musical theatre productions.

- You don’t need previous construction experience to get a place on the course: we’re looking for passionate, inventive, creative students who are open to being challenged and trying new things.

On successful completion of the Foundation Degree, you have the option to undertake an additional year of study specialising in scenic construction to be eligible for the BA (Hons) Design for Performance.

Prepare yourself to be a ‘triple threat’ musical theatre performer as you train in the disciplines of acting, singing and dancing while exploring the traditions and contemporary practices of musical theatre on stage and screen.

A Level Music Production explores how music is written and then shaped in the studio, covering a wide range of areas from the foundations of sequencing, recording and composing through to mixing music in a professional environment.

You will be introduced to sequencing using Logic Pro on Apple iMac digital audio workstations, producing your own multi-track recording using a high-quality analogue mixing desk in one of our outstanding studios.

Topics covered can include:

- Recording and production techniques for both corrective and creative purposes
- Principles of sound and audio technology
- The development of recording and production technology