Rose Bruford College
MA/MFA in Actor and Performer Training

Sidcup, United Kingdom

DEGREE TYPE

DURATION

13 up to

24 months

LANGUAGES

English

PACE

Full time

APPLICATION DEADLINE

EARLIEST START DATE

STUDY FORMAT

On-Campus

Key Summary

About : The MA/MFA in Actor and Performer Training focuses on advanced training for actors, incorporating practical techniques and theoretical knowledge. This two-year program emphasizes the development of performers' skills through workshops, performances, and collaborative projects, offering an immersive experience in the craft. The program is designed to challenge students and foster their artistic identities in a supportive environment.

Career Outcomes : Graduates of this program can pursue a variety of careers in the performing arts, including roles as professional actors, directors, and educators. Other opportunities include work in theater companies, film and television, as well as roles in arts administration and curriculum development within academic institutions.

The MA/MFA Actor/Performer Training is a practice-based program for those seeking intensive advanced training as actors and performers alongside rigorous academic study and performance research.

The program focuses specifically on actor/performer training, theatre creation, performative writing, informed critical reflection, and practice research. The uniqueness of the program lies in the way it seeks to integrate traditional text-based conservatoire training and practices with the physical collaborative approach that has grown out of Eastern and Central Europe over the last 60 years.

The MA/MFA includes an expedition that offers a unique context for learning and ethnographic and cultural research.

Why choose this course?

Expert training

Provide specialist professional teaching and opportunities for study, research, and embedded practice that are focused on enabling you to build, enhance, and take ownership over your own practice as an innovative and empowered actor-performer and theatre-maker

Unique approach

Provide in-depth training and study to develop your artistic and academic expertise within highly specialized performance systems and ecologies and offer opportunities to work within dynamic and diverse, performance cultures

Exploration of text and physical performance

The uniqueness of the program lies in the way it seeks to integrate traditional text-based conservatoire training and practices with the physical collaborative approach that has grown out of Eastern and Central Europe over the last 60 years

Learning environment

Create a pedagogical culture dedicated to providing advanced, rigorous, and challenging learning and development opportunities in an environment that seeks to draw inspiration from traditional performance cultures and practices and to fuse these elements with contemporary global theatre and performance and outwardly facing theatre-artist, ready to take their place as citizens and active participants in cultural life

Duration

MA 13 Months
MFA 24 Months

The focus of the MA and the first year of your MFA is experiential learning and practice – exposure to rigorous craft and skill-based practice, and developing complementary artistic and professional skills to support and enhance their creative performance work.

To support this widening field of knowledge and to develop an understanding of contemporary global initiatives and professional opportunities and realities, a series of seminars, workshops, lectures, keynote interventions, and discussions will be programmed throughout the year. It is envisaged that individual students will have utilized this first year of training, study, and research to develop a clear understanding of their skills, abilities, and faculties as Actors/Performers and the particular field of enterprise they wish to pursue through their second year of study and beyond. MA students will undertake a Final Independent project to complete their course.

The second year of your MFA focuses on deepening and widening your field of professional practice and knowledge; gaining professional experience and exposure, developing professional networks and contacts, and culminating in the creation of either an artist’s portfolio or a piece of independent work that typically manifests your vision, artistic practice, skills, inclinations and aptitudes. This may take the form of a live performance or presentation, an electronic presentation, or a combination of these mediums.

While the MA programme and first year of the MFA have been holistically conceived, it is built on a modular framework, culminating in the first year in a research expedition which becomes the stimulus for subsequent collaborative work towards a performance. The second year of the MFA includes a professional placement, taught weekends, and a Final Independent Project module which is equivalent to the Master’s dissertation commonly found in most MFA programs.