MA Directing
Goldsmiths, University of London
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MA - Master of Arts Degree

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SEP-25

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1 Year

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MA - Master of Arts Degree

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Goldsmiths Campus

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This programme trains directors who are highly creative, critically and socially engaged, and skilled to work in a range of performance styles and practices. Develop your own creative and ethical working methods, and unique style, as a director.Goldsmiths is famous for producing theatre practitioners who have agency and critical capacity that makes them fit for work in existing theatre, screen and arts industries as well as being able to create, innovate, and initiate change in their own right ...Read more

This programme trains directors who are highly creative, critically and socially engaged, and skilled to work in a range of performance styles and practices. Develop your own creative and ethical working methods, and unique style, as a director.

  • Goldsmiths is famous for producing theatre practitioners who have agency and critical capacity that makes them fit for work in existing theatre, screen and arts industries as well as being able to create, innovate, and initiate change in their own right as artists.
  • MA Directing provides rigorous, diverse and socially aware director training for application in theatre and the arts sector in a 21st-century global context.
  • This programme offers imaginative, technical and intellectual training across a range of methods, approaches and related practitioner and critical discourses for use in classical, contemporary, devised, site specific, and new theatre writing productions.
  • You will receive an introduction to working in screen, audio and digital contexts and learn about performance theories, practices and methodologies in relation to your own performance practice and research as a director.
  • You'll have professional development learning opportunities and reflexive practice embedded through all three terms of the programme and a wide range of directors will visit to lecture and teach over the year, including alumni.
  • You will be introduced to a range of directorial methods, plays and styles of theatre from different cultures and periods in history.

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33rd
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60th

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£16,200 per year

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£22,000 per year

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£22,000 per year

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Goldsmiths, University of London
Goldsmiths, University of London , Lewisham

Goldsmiths, University of London - a part of the esteemed University of London - is a pioneering institution in the UK’s capital....

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Goldsmiths, University of London
New Cross London Greater London SE14 6NW United Kingdom
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