St Mary's University Twickenham, London

BA (Hons) Acting

Why study Acting?

This course helps you develop practical, holistic acting skills. Our new blended learning delivery model looks to maximise face-to-face contact, with the majority of work scheduled in our campus studios. Face-to-face teaching is supplemented with a full programme of online learning activities. We regularly review our offer to ensure that we can continue to work in a COVID-secure environment and students can expect in excess of 18 hours of scheduled classes each week.

Our Voice and Movement classes develop the core skills you will need as an actor. Acting classes hone your imagination, technique and stage and screen craft. In the Performance classes, you can be playful, experimental, spontaneous and collaborative. The Contextual Studies stream investigates where your work fits into the wider world, both past and present.

In your first year, you will build a firm base for your training. This serves as a base for developing your craft in year two through in-house productions and workshops. In your final year, you begin your career with public productions, links to industry professionals and a graduate portfolio.

Year one

• Voice and Movement 1
• Acting 1: Methodologies
• Performance 1: Skills
• Acting 2: Methodology to Text
• Performance 2: Ensemble
• Contextual Studies 1: Acting in Theory and Practice

Year two

• Voice and Movement 2
• Acting 3: Classical
• Performance 3: Devising
• Acting 4: Acting for TV and Film
• Performance 4: Applied Theatre
• Contextual Studies 2: Theatre History

Year three

• Production
• Contextual Studies 3: Professional Practice
• Creative Thinking and Theatre-Making
• Finalists Productions
• Acting for Screen and Radio

By the end of this Acting degree, you will have had professional training appropriate to a career in theatre and be equipped with creative, analytical, communication, team-working and organisational skills relevant to a wide range of graduate employment.

Recent graduates have found employment as actors both on stage and on the screen including American television or London’s West End.

The Careers Service has more information on careers and postgraduate study options available to Acting students who have started their studies at St Mary’s.