Acting (Musical Theatre) The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama

Overview

Overview

Throughout the Acting (Musical Theatre) course, you will explore acting through a range of contemporary approaches to sung and spoken voice, movement and dance.

• Intensive musical theatre training with the emphasis on acting

• Extensive engagement with industry professionals 

• External performance opportunities/collaboration with artists, theatre companies and producers

• 3 years full-time, and students are entitled to full Equity status upon graduation.

As an actor, you will interrogate both musical and non-musical settings ranging from Shakespeare and the modern American realists to Sondheim and the popular musical. As the course progresses you will acquire the necessary skills for the realisation of ‘character’ in both the transformational and heightened theatrical styles of both spoken and sung performance.

The course has outstanding links with the performing arts industry and this is reflected in the wide range and high percentage of graduate employment.

Scholarships and Bursaries

Students from The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama currently benefit from a high level of external and internal scholarship and bursary support (to help with fees and living expenses) from the following: Ian Fleming Musical Theatre Award, Olivier Bursary Award, Lilian Baylis Award, Lionel Bart Foundation, Pilkington Trust, David Day Memorial Scholarship, Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation, Clare Rich Scholarship, and Fergal O’Mahony Foundation Awards for Musical Theatre.