Acting BA (Hons) The University for the Creative Arts

Overview

The Acting BA (Hons) programme offered at The University for the Creative Arts gives you the in-depth vocational training you’ll need to excel on stage, on screen, and in digital media, with rigorous practical learning and collaborations with a wide range of industry partners and networks including the National Theatre, Shakespeare’s Globe, and the British Film Institute. This course is also recognised by Spotlight and Equity UK. 

Key Features

• Our actor training is practical, vocational, and intensive – led by practising industry professionals – but you are also given the creative freedom to write, produce, and direct. That's what makes a UCA actor-creator – a performer who is employable across a wide range of skills and disciplines.

• One week you may perform at a 400-seat theatre. The next, you might be on set in a custom-built film studio, or motion capture suite, or behind the mic in a recording studio. By graduation, you'll have a professional showreel, voicereel, headshots, and website – all produced as part of the course, in collaboration with other students and staff.
• Our students have showcased their work at the National Theatre – a relationship unique to UCA. They’ve also performed at Shakespeare's Globe and screened their work at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, and worked with the British Film Institute (BFI). Guest lecturers have included well-known actors and directors from stage and screen, as well as casting professionals from films like Skyfall and Spectre. UCA Acting is also recognised as a Graduate Course by Spotlight and Equity.

• Through our Performance Indicator, you could be eligible for further acting, writing, producing and directing opportunities both during your time with us and after you graduate. Our alumni network is a part of the fabric of our programme, graduates are supported by our team long after they have left formal education.