56 Acting BA Degree Programs

The AFDA Bachelor of Arts in Live Performance is renowned for providing students with a rigorous, well-rounded, comprehensive education in live performance. The program is designed to equip students with the necessary conceptual, practical, and contextual skills to perform on stage, screen, TV, or within the music industry. What defines the program and sets it apart, is its project-led experiential approach to learning, allowing graduates to thrive in the creative economy of the 21st century.

Acting CDT celebrates the creative potential of collaborative processes, as well as the development of the individual actor. The core actor training includes the psychophysical techniques of Jacques Lecoq, Michael Chekhov, Constantin Stanislavski and Kristin Linklater and emphasizes an embodied and experiential approach. The course encourages actors to develop rehearsal techniques for script-based work as well as explore the most up-to-date forms of theatre and filmmaking and to have a full creative and political engagement with their work. Students are entitled to full Equity status upon graduation. Acting CDT is in creative partnership with international touring theatre company Complicate.

What does it take to be a professional actor? Skill and confidence, certainly. We also think it helps to have a strong portfolio before you even graduate. Our Acting course trains you in all aspects of the business while nurturing the versatility, creativity, and resilience needed to succeed in acting and a range of performing arts careers.

Acting BA (Hons) at Drama St Mary’s is a rigorous, full-time course that equips you for a career in acting.

The BA (Hons) Acting program is a leading actor training based in the heart of Manchester. Led by a team of specialist and highly experienced directors, teachers, and practitioners, the BA (Hons) Acting course at Manchester School of Theatre has an outstanding reputation for training actors with the skills necessary for a successful career in film, television, radio, and stage.

The BA (Hons) Acting for Stage, Screen Digital Media undergraduate course offers rigorous and multi-faceted training that prepares you for the demands of the professional acting industry.

The BA Acting programme at Leeds Conservatoire offers rigorous, practical, conservatoire training for a career as a professional actor. Through practical skills training and individualised artistic development, you will acquire the skills to sustain a career as a working artist in theatre, television, film and recorded media - serving the performance industry now and in the shaping its future.

Embody your fullest self on stage and on screen. Our BA degree in Acting is a contemporary, practice-based programme designed to prepare you for the demands of today’s performance and media industries. You’ll build the craft, confidence and adaptability to take on diverse roles across theatre, film, TV and digital platforms – while developing the self-awareness and initiative needed to navigate your career with purpose.

SCAD acting students shine in sitcoms, films, plays, and immersive experiences, with opportunities to work in professional productions via the SCAD Casting Office. Led by industry-experienced faculty, students connect with Hollywood icons at SCAD’s signature events, preparing for success in film, television, and streaming.

Leeds Conservatoire's Actor Musicianship programme offers practical training for actors with instrumental skill. Through practical skills training in Acting, Music, Movement, Spoken and Sung Voice and Performance-based Research you will develop the skills to be a highly employable, multi-disciplinary storyteller.

The philosophy of the course can be summed up by the words, ‘embodiment’, ‘imagination’ and ‘interaction’. The training develops the actor’s body and voice as strong and effective communicators of thought, emotion and intention, and opens up the imagination so that the actor can create and sustain three-dimensional worlds from the playwright’s text. These processes invariably take place in an interactive context so that the actor is constantly learning to respond to outside stimuli – whether people, objects or atmosphere – in an open and uncensored way. Students are entitled to full Equity status upon graduation.

A Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Acting is a degree program that provides comprehensive training in the performing arts, with a specific focus on acting and theater performance. The program typically spans four years and is offered by various colleges, universities, and conservatories worldwide.

This BA (Hons) acting degree for Stage & Screen has been designed by working industry professionals to ensure students develop the skills required when performing for stage and screen.

Our Acting and Theatre Arts Top Up course explores a range of subjects, including writing, scenography, and theatre making at our state-of-the-art technical facilities. The Acting and Theatre Arts (Top Up) course enables applicants who have completed an HND/FdA in a relevant Acting/Drama discipline to progress onto the final year of the BA qualification. Our popular Acting and Theatre Arts degree blends traditional academic study with practical drama-school training. Acting, plays, directing, contemporary drama, practitioners, playwrights and applied theatre are central to this course.

Our BA (Hons) Acting course presents a new opportunity to develop as a performing artist and work towards a successful career in film, television or radio. Building on NUA’s well-established expertise in film, moving image, sound, animation and visual effects, the new course will focus on the live and recorded screen and voice performance.