Drama and Creative Writing with a Placement Year (Hons) University of East Anglia

Overview

You’ll be taught by experienced artists, writers, and researchers who will support you in developing both your creative voice and your performance skills. By combining your passions for text and performance, you’ll gain a deeper understanding of how they inform and inspire one another.    

Throughout your Drama and Creative Writing with a Placement Year (Hons) degree from University of East Anglia, you’ll explore both disciplines, studying acting, innovative playwrights, writing, and theatre practices from around the world. You’ll learn the art of writing, including for stage and screen, the craft of theatre-making, and how critical thinking leads to rigorous and powerful work. You’ll have the opportunity to study all kinds of creative writing, with a particular focus on writing for theatre, cinema, television, and radio. Alongside this, you'll be exploring the contemporary practice, criticism, and history of dramatic writing and performance. Your writing will be enriched by an awareness of theatrical and literary traditions from around the globe.  

Placement Year

You’ll have the opportunity and support to greatly enhance your employability by securing and undertaking a 9–12-month placement in the third year of your degree. You'll be expected to source your own work placement with the support of UEA's Career Central Service and your school.  

Career Pathways

Examples of careers you could enter include:  

• Scriptwriting  
• Theatre and film  
• Journalism  
• Media  
• Teaching  
• Publishing