Acting Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)

Course Overview

This unique actor training programme taught by industry professionals provides you with the skills and knowledge to work as an actor on screen stage and in digital media.

This industry driven BA (Hons) Acting course teaches you everything you need to know about being a contemporary actor. Your training involves movement, voice, classical text, rehearsal processes, acting for screen, radio and voiceover along with devising and professional preparation. You will graduate industry ready, complete with a showreel, voice-reel and professional headshots.

Our Acting degree is highly practical and geared toward performance. You will appear in directed public performances in your second and third year, including industry showcases in Manchester and London.

This is a well established Acting course, with results that speak for themselves. Former students have appeared in high profile screen roles in some of the UK’s top TV dramas and worked in theatre for companies including The Royal Shakespeare Company, The National Theatre and The Royal Exchange. Graduates from this course have also formed companies, producing their own work with the support of Arts Council England funding.

Why study with us

* This is production-based course, with the majority of your work directed towards performance, including to the public.

* Research informed teaching including Meyerhold’s Biomechanics

* Our graduates include Mandip Gill (Yasmin in Doctor Who), Nathan Wood (Waterloo Road), Channique Sterling Brown (Coronation Street), Freddie Bolt (Ackley Bridge), Jordan Reece (Emmerdale), Riley Carter (Eastenders), Sarah George, Alexa Lee and Gary Hanks (Hollyoaks).

What you’ll do

* You will benefit from increased contact hours in this practice-based course, which emphasises the importance of technique learning in workshops and is assessed through performance.

* This is a production-based course, with the majority of your work directed towards performance, including to the public.

* You’ll learn from tutors who are experienced performing artists –professionals with a national, if not international, reputation.

Future careers

Our BA (Hons) Acting course offers a programme of industry-focused, highly vocational training designed to prepare you for the realities of a career in the acting profession.