About the programme

• Explore and develop your creative potential as an actor in an ensemble environment
• Develop your understanding of your own practice and casting as you foster the emotional, physical and imaginative skills to be a professional actor across all contexts
• Immerse yourself in the rich heritage of theatrical arts whilst combining this with the latest creative innovations
• Extensive industry exposure obtained through public productions and a showcase in Central London for agents and casting directors
• Notable graduates include Andrew Garfield, Cush Jumbo OBE and Kit Harington.

You will receive a thorough actor training that explores a broad range of approaches and put these new techniques into practice through a broad and inclusive range of plays and performances. This programme allows for full immersion into the world of performance and is about readying the performer of tomorrow through embracing the rich heritage of theatrical arts, harmonizing it with creative innovations. The programme prepares you for a transformative journey on and beyond the stage, fostering awareness of crucial social issues.

Undergraduate actor training at Central

Centrals undergraduate actor training provides a comprehensive grounding in all of the fundamental skills required to be a professional actor for stage, screen and other media forms. Drawing on classical and contemporary playwrights and practitioners, students develop their techniques in an inclusive environment, adopt the approaches that work best for their learning and become adaptable and well-rounded performers. The training also takes advantage of opportunities through emerging technologies such as motion capture. Central has a rich history of training leading performers found across the creative industries in theatre, film, television and emerging digital content.

Industry-readiness is a core part of the training and all students have opportunities to showcase their skills and build extensive connections and networks that will provide a sustained career way beyond their first professional role. Agent showcases, mock auditions and showreels are just some examples of these opportunities in action, many of which take place in the final year of the course.

Central places importance on developing highly skilled performers, but just as importantly, practitioners who can collaborate effectively and also create their own work.

We place focus at our auditions and on programme on understanding the individual performer and their story what a student can bring to the training and to the class is just as important as what they get out of it – a rich diversity of stories, experience and backgrounds makes for an inclusive, engaging and impactful training environment.