Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts
Bachelor in Theatre Arts
Kingston, Jamaica
Bachelor's degree
DURATION
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2026
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
About: The Bachelor in Theatre Arts at The Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts trains students in acting and directing. Acting builds critical thinking, technical and aesthetic stage skills, emphasizes Caribbean cultural performance and modern/postmodern theatre, and explores cultural identity and community voice. Directing builds creative leadership, theory and direction skills. Keywords: acting, directing, stagecraft, dramaturgy.
Career Outcomes: Graduates can pursue roles as stage actors, theatre directors, dramaturgs or performance practitioners, or work as teaching artists, arts administrators or producers in theatre, film, television, community arts, cultural organizations, education, and arts management, using production and collaboration skills.
Bachelor of Theatre Arts
ACTING
The programme aims to provide training in essential critical thinking, technical and aesthetic skills of acting for the stage. Caribbean cultural performance, modern and postmodern perspectives of theatre underpin the approaches of the curriculum. Students will be continuously engaged in the analysis and development of their creative proficiency in relation to individual cultural identity, community and the importance of their independent voice as emerging theatre artists.
DIRECTING
Students are equipped to develop and strengthen their skills in creative leadership. This is facilitated through the exploration of theory and practice of the role and processes of the stage director as creative artist/cultural agent with a sound appreciation of the politics and aesthetics of traditional and popular performance.
