Perfect your acting skills in a creative and caring community
Our practical and performance-based BA (Hons) Acting course helps turn natural talent into a career and make dreams of performing on stage or screen a reality.

Explore a range of key performance topics, including:

• Acting technique
• Acting for camera
• Showreel and agent showcase
• Scene study
• Vocal skills and singing
• Movement and physicality
• Stage combat
• Playwrighting
• Solo performance
• Classical theatre

Gain highly practical musical theatre training with a focus on performance work

Develop your musical theatre performance skills and become the best version of yourself

Gain professional musical theatre training with a focus on future career destinations

Key components of the curriculum include:

• Jazz, contemporary, tap, ballet and commercial dance
• One-to-one vocal tuition
• Vocal repertoire and ensemble
• Acting technique (Stanislavski/Meisner)
• Play rehearsals
• Acting through song
• Camera technique
• Voice class (recorded voice reel)
• Audition and castings preparation.

Perform in full-scale productions, cabaret evenings and workshops of brand-new musicals

Create your own theatrical work and understand every step in the process

Launch your career with a bang and feature on our graduates website

You will also be featured on our online graduate portfolio.

Notable alumni successes include appearances in:

• Grease, West End
• Bat Out Of Hell, UK & International Tour
• Six: The Musical, West End & UK Tour
• Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, UK Tour
• Choir Of Man, Norwegian Cruise Lines
• Grease, Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines
• Zog & The Flying Doctors, UK Tour

On this course you will:

• Gain a comprehensive musical theatre training with specialist options in performance and theatre production.
• Star in our industry showcase and perform throughout your degree.
• Learn from our expert and industry-active teaching staff.
• Expand your professional network and career opportunities through our Spotlight accreditation and industry connections.
• Study on a Spotlight accredited degree.

Engage in the specialist vocational preparation of professional performance by nurturing and developing the practical skills required for this profession.

This course has an emphasis on practical training, and this embodied knowledge is supported by engagement with theoretical studies. It will prepare you for the dynamic and diverse nature of the industry, giving you opportunities to develop your leadership skills, including directing, choreographing, sound and lighting design, and producing a show.

Why study this course with us?
The Hammond is one of the leading providers of performing arts in the North West and has outstanding facilities and resources, including dance and drama studios, a music suite with recording studio, practice rooms and a 420-seat theatre.

The Hammond is highly respected throughout the world, bringing together extremely talented students in singing, acting and dance.

Our curriculum reflects the nature of work within the theatre, which requires technical competence, artistry and creativity, and will encourage you to develop into an independent, reflective practitioner.

We pride ourselves on the quality of support we offer, and have a range of support packages to help support students during their time at University.

If you have practical experience in music and a keen interest in the technical, cultural, historical, and philosophical questions it opens up, this programme is for you. In each year you are given a range of options both in music and other subjects, allowing you to design a degree pathway that caters to your own particular interests and strengths.

In each year you are given a range of options from which to choose, allowing you to design your own degree to cater to your own particular interests and strengths.