Undergraduate Courses
Introduction
Our intensive and professional-focused training will prepare you for careers across the creative industries. Explore our undergraduate programmes within the Departments of Performance, Practice and Producing, open for entry in 2025.
Applications to these courses can be made through UCAS from September 2024.
Performance
This unique and innovative actor training programme develops your professional skills to work across theatre, TV, film, and audio in a devising mode that will see you become an accomplished maker of your own performance work.
Train to become an accomplished actor with extensive training in singing and dancing. You will put your newly developed skills in to practice in musicals, classical and contemporary plays.
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.
Practice
A pioneering degree designed to train people who are passionate about the arts as a springboard for social change. This programme inspires the next generation of critical practitioners, performance makers and educators wishing to be at the forefront of change that benefits individuals and communities.
An innovative programme for aspiring artists and creators who want to shape the future of theatre, performance, and the arts. This three-year programme explores innovative art forms, from theatre to digital performance, to make performance challenging traditional methods and grow professional skills to work across the arts and culture.
A cutting-edge programme for people interested in writing, performance, and how they connect. This three-year degree explores and experiments with writing for stage, screen, and socially engaged contexts towards new creative discoveries. Cultivating practical skills and critical thinking, it equips students to write for performance in a variety of settings and platforms.
Producing
On this degree programme you will develop highly advanced technical skills to prepare you for the costume industry; this ranges from pattern cutting, garment construction and costume supervision and management for live & screen performances.
This programme, rooted in theatre and live performance, offers an engaging exploration of expanded design fields, including performance space and architecture, costume, lighting, sound and video design, immersive installations, spatial narratives, and visual dramaturgy. Through practical creative compositions, material experimentation, realised performance projects, and placements within the creative industries, students will develop a strong, interdisciplinary skill set.
A degree programme for individuals passionate about bringing theatrical productions, films and live events to life. You will be equipped with the technical, creative and collaborative skills essential in production arts, including the use of sustainable materials and new technologies.
An ideal programme for aspiring stage or technical managers, lighting or sound specialists, or all-round production technicians. The programme’s flexibility allows you to tailor your learning, underpinned by the latest approaches to technology, inclusivity and sustainability, taught by industry experts.
More information
General information and advice on the application process for undergraduate courses at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
We welcome students from outside the UK to Central and support them throughout their time with us.
Meet Central students studying on different undergraduate programmes
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