Theatre and Creative Writing (Placement Year) (Hons) Lancaster University

Overview

Enjoy a vibrant creative culture with events in the city’s Castle Quarter, multiple student-run literary journals, visiting authors, and opportunities to present your writing live.

Why study Theatre and Creative Writing at Lancaster?

• Benefit from a forward-thinking curriculum that is firmly based on the skills and knowledge that will be needed in the theatre industry in years to come

• Tailor your studies by specialising in your chosen area of theatre such as acting, scenography, scriptwriting, directing or applied and community performance

• Choose a course that expertly combines practical skills with contextual knowledge, giving you a strong understanding of 21st century theatre and how it can impact society

• Enhance your writing through both text-based writing experiments and workshops focusing on your own writing – from novels to videogames, poetry to graphic novels

• Explore the professional dimensions of Creative Writing, such as performing your work, editing, publishing, and marketing

• Get involved with our four student-run literary journals: Cake, Lux, Flash, and Errant and our partners, the city-based LitFest

Careers

Developing your professional skills is at the core of this course. Our course is very highly regarded in the profession, and our graduates are sought after within the theatre and performance sector. Providing valuable critical thinking and creative skills, this course will open up many opportunities across a range of sectors. Our creative writing graduates have published their own stories, novels, videogames, graphic novels, and poems with major publishers, and have had their scripts produced in national festivals and on national radio.

New and exciting opportunities are emerging in the creative and cultural industries such as literary tourism, podcasting, game-writing, travel writing and vlogging.

The degree will also prepare you to work in:

• Acting

• Playwriting

• Publishing

• Production

• Journalism

• Directing

• Copywriting

• Social media

• Television and the media

Further postgraduate study can provide a pathway into careers such as teaching, law and social work. A significant number of our graduates also go on to set up their own theatre companies or small businesses.