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10 Bachelor's degrees in Drama in New Zealand

Bachelor of Arts in Theatre
Explore your passions through a rich variety of subjects and develop the creativity and flexibility needed in the changing job-market. Choose the Bachelor of Arts in Theatre program from Victoria University of Wellington.
Performing and Screen Arts (Screen Arts)
Considering a career in film and television? Train to be a screen professional and learn the creative, business and technical skills of pre-production, production and post production. This Performing and Screen Arts (Screen Arts) programme at Unitec Institute of Technology is hands on and enables students to conceptualize and produce their own video and film projects.
Performing and Screen Arts (Acting for Screen and Theatre)
Do you consider all the world to be your stage? Establish your acting, voice and movement skills, become familiar with acting techniques for theatre and film, and develop an understanding of the history of drama. Launch your acting career and perform in front of real audiences at Performing and Screen Arts (Acting for Screen and Theatre) from Unitec Institute of Technology programme.
Performing and Screen Arts (Contemporary Dance)
Learn to choreograph and perform at a professional level by becoming part of the largest full-time Performing and Screen Arts (Contemporary Dance) programme from Unitec Institute of Technology. Participate in a diverse array of performances, ranging from solo and group work to commissioned works by guest choreographers.
Design (Stage and Screen)
This Bachelor of Design (Stage and Screen) program from the TOI Whakaari New Zealand Drama School is an intensive practical course covering the essential skills to design set and costume for traditional performance on both the stage and screen, alongside developing critical and ideation skills for work that expands notions of performance in the 21st Century.
Performing Arts (Acting)
This Bachelor of Performing Arts (Acting) program from the TOI Whakaari New Zealand Drama School is Aotearoa’s most prestigious actor training course. Running over three years, this intensive degree programme is designed to train a Responsive Actor – an actor who has the courage, skill and flexibility to meet any opportunity as they build a career in our ever-changing arts landscape.
Theatre Studies
The Theatre Studies programme at University of Waikato has a wide range of vocational applications within the Performing Arts. This suite of papers leads the student through processes of performance-making.
Theatre Studies
Theatre Studies at University of Otago is based in Allen Hall Theatre, which is a working theatre featuring a very full programme of lunchtime and evening productions throughout the academic year. You will become involved in productions at the theatre, (both onstage and backstage) as part of your course work.
Drama
The Drama programme at the University of Auckland studies society, people and culture and equip yourself for the changing future of work.
Drama (Honours)
Further your study and enhance your career potential with advanced courses and supervised research alongside some of New Zealand's leading scholars with the Drama (Honours) programme at the University of Auckland.