This programme offers a bespoke learning experience tailored to your own specialisms and ambition, all within the Northumbria Theatre and Performance hub. MA Theatre and Performance is an innovative postgraduate programme that is rich in opportunity and diverse in content and reach. The programme promotes creativity, experimentation and risk-taking for students as makers and scholars. It fosters an enhanced understanding of the skills required for sustaining careers in academic and professional arts sectors. This MA is firmly embedded in the cultural community of professional practice and academic scholarship in North East England. Our programme aims to generate the theatre and performance makers and scholars of the future. We offer you the opportunity to explore an area of developing practice.You will graduate from this programme with transferable skills including: self-motivation, innovation and independent thinking the ability to think laterally and multi-task effective organisational skills including project planning and time management the ability to work creatively in individual and group situations and the development of effective interpersonal skills through communication with specialist and non-specialist audiences. You will also develop various practical professional skills, in particular the ability to produce a substantial performance project appropriate to the pursuance of a professional career, and the ability to work independently and manage projects to a professional standard. Our graduates go on to advanced careers as theatre-makers of various kinds, or to seed or launch their own companies.