Acting for Stage and Screen (Hons) University of East London

Overview

This new and inclusive degree in Acting for Stage and Screen (Hons) from University of East London offers an intensive and dynamic actor training, developing acting skills for both on-camera and on-stage. From initial idea through to performance or screening we will encourage and support an understanding of the actors' creative process. With 75% practical assessments, acting techniques are explored via workshops enabling a personal creative toolkit to be built.

Alongside your lecturers you will be mentored and taught by professional actors, directors, casting directors, film-makers and screenwriters, many of whom continue to work in the industry today. This practical and analytical training will help to develop your own artistic identity and offer you a creative performing arts community with plenty of opportunities to create your own original work.  

This course focuses on a collaborative approach, building an ensemble and creating a conservatoire atmosphere for our degree students with a focus on developing the graduate actor with an extensive CV, a professional show reel and a resilience to make exciting contemporary work.

If you join in the foundation year, you will have the opportunity to transform and develop your existing experience and skills in creative practice and establish key academic skills to prepare you for undergraduate study. 

The first year of undergraduate study develops core skills in key areas of disciplinary practice and collaboration. You will participate in industry-modelled projects in collaboration with students from other related disciplines.

In the second year you will experiment further, explore different approaches to individual and collaborative practice, engaging with external practitioners and organisations, and developing employability skills as part of a Professional Life module.

In the third year of study you will become more focused on the development of your own specialist ideas, practice and research, individually and in collaboration with others, internal and external to the University.

You will graduate with a rich and dynamic digital portfolio to present to industry professionals and future employers.

Your future career

Performing Arts programmes at UEL develop an existing base of core skills in practice, research and portfolio development, and apply these to specific industrial contexts in collaborative projects that simulate professional practice, and which integrate with the Theatre, Media and Immersive Experience industries.

The BA Acting for Stage and Screen course will develop a core set of skills and will also develop transferrable skills (linked to UEL Core Competencies and the Career Passport) for the creative industries. The integration of both staged and screen-based acting technique, dramaturgy and creative collaboration with technical and creative areas mirrors the nature of the contemporary industrial context, in which traditional career pathways have been superseded by more diverse skills sets and practice applied across disciplinary and industrial contexts.

Programme specific skills will include: Acting for stage and screen, dramaturgy, video editing, creative writing, creative and technical production, interactive portfolio development, sound recording (environmental, Foley stage, stage), sound design.

You will be able to collaborate and participate in a range of projects, resulting in a portfolio of project work that represents a broad range of skills and experience, with depth of both disciplinary and interdisciplinary skills.

This approach anticipates a diverse world of work, building skills to create coherence and impact that is transferable across multiple industry contexts.