Performance Preparation Academy is an inclusive and lively community of performers, industry practitioners and facilitators.
We champion a safe and supportive working environment, promoting a strong ensemble ethic whilst allowing individuality and identity.

Our students enjoy long lasting personal and professional relationships formed while closely exploring a wide range of learning experiences, rehearsal-based projects and public performances.

We are dedicated to individual development and our team of industry-experienced tutors deliver a rigorous and innovative training programme designed to prepare graduates for todays industry with a dual focus on both Stage and Screen.

Reflection on professional practice is an empowering aspect of the student experience and in the third year your research project allows you to choose a subject matter of personal interest.

In addition, you will have access to the PPA Agency, which has enviable industry links and may promote graduates into the Acting world with access to agents, casting directors and potential employers. Where possible, we encourage students to develop industry links via public performances, auditions, work-based learning opportunities and the Industry Showcase.

Acting

In these modules you will begin developing your personal acting technique an integrated approach to performing live and recorded media (film, theatre, television etc) that works effectively for you, individually and as part of an ensemble. You will develop your acting technique by exposure to a comprehensive range of approaches to acting looking at contemporary practices as well as modern approaches to traditional methodologies such as the Stanislavski System.

Voice and Movement

These modules will be an exploration and development of your vocal and physical skills as a performer through the disciplines of movement, voice and singing. In the following classes you will learn how to develop and maintain your voice and body as an instrument, enabling you to serve the requirements of industry and performance:

• Actors Movement
• Voice and Text
• Speech and Accent
• Singing