Acting and Performance (1 year top-up) Sheffield Hallam University

Overview

Key facts

• Develop high-level skills as an actor and performer.

• Research, plan and execute professional-standard performances across a range of media.
• Create a digital portfolio to showcase your work.
• Engage with communities and challenge real-world issues.
• Take part in our final-year degree showcase festival.
• Hone your craft through specialist modules in applied theatre, acting with texts, or comic performance. You’ll master production processes and apply your learning by creating and starring in your own public performances. You’ll also work with our external partners, helping to challenge global issues, through our Change Makers Festival.
• All the courses are designed around a set of key principles based on engaging you with the world, collaborating with others, challenging you to think in new ways, and providing you with a supportive environment in which you can thrive.
• You’ll take part in interactive lectures, seminars and practical workshops led by creative professionals, practitioners and expert academics. You’ll also have the opportunity to work with industry partners on ‘live brief’ projects. As you develop experience, you’ll create a professional portfolio designed to prepare you for a range of careers – whether that’s in the creative industries, drama education or postgraduate study and training.

Future careers

The graduates of the  Acting and Performance (1 year top-up) programme from Sheffield Hallam University have gone on to rewarding and fulfilling careers in

• the acting profession
• the creative industries
• film production
• marketing, communications and media
• education
• community theatre 
• creative arts facilitation
• the charity sector
• journalism
• public-facing professions such as HR, training and customer service