MFA Theatre Directing
University of East London
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MFA - Master of Fine Art

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University Square Stratford

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Full Time

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SEP-26

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2 Years

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MFA - Master of Fine Art

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University Square Stratford

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SEP-26

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2 Years

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If you want to pursue a professional career as a theatre director, underpinned by a clear intellectual understanding of your practice, then our exceptional and practical MA course is ideally suited to you.It provides an opportunity to develop your directing practice through an active engagement with critical thinking so that you will have the tools to become an independent creative artist in the industry. The diversity of our student intake is our courses strength. Its open to those with ...Read more

If you want to pursue a professional career as a theatre director, underpinned by a clear intellectual understanding of your practice, then our exceptional and practical MA course is ideally suited to you.It provides an opportunity to develop your directing practice through an active engagement with critical thinking so that you will have the tools to become an independent creative artist in the industry. The diversity of our student intake is our course's strength. It's open to those with professional as well as academic experience.The MA Theatre Directing course takes a practice-based approach as it explores different directing methodologies - naturalism, realism, intercultural performance and contemporary devising practices.You will gain the skills needed to create innovative and exciting performance work and to be able to operate as a professional theatre director and independent creative producer.The work you will be doing with theatre professionals and the constructive help and advice you will receive from professional actors throughout your course is all geared towards helping you establish yourself in the industry.Your final degree show will act as your showcase to attract agents and develop your professional networks. By having your own mentor in the last six months of your course, you will not only gain important insight and advice about the technical aspects of acting but you will receive invaluable help in developing important contacts.

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81st
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126th

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Entry requirements

Students should have minimum 2.1 Honours in Theatre/Performance studies or related subject. We would normally expect you to have Grade 4/C in GCSE English and Maths

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£9,150 per year

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£13,850 per year

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£13,850 per year

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University of East London
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University of East London
1 Salway Road London Greater London E15 1NF United Kingdom
Nearest tube station: Stratford  0.2 miles away Nearest train station: Maryland  0.1 miles away
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