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10 Master's degrees offered by the university
Actor Training and Coaching
Together with the MA/MFA Voice Studies and the MA/MFA Movement: Actor Training and Coaching courses at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, Actor Training and Coaching is one of Central’s postgraduate degrees that exposes you to high-level training practice.
Acting - Classical
The Acting - Classical course at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama draws on the hugely influential theories and techniques for training the expressive body, voice and imagination. Working with some of the greatest dramatic texts ever written, you are asked to consider what they mean now, and how their 21st century reinterpretation and re-imagining still holds a ‘mirror up to nature.
Advanced Theatre Practice
As a student on the MA or MFA Advanced Theatre Practice at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, you can expect to engage in a collaborative laboratory for practical experimentation, create new work for an extensive range of public encounters, play a leading role in tomorrow’s performance and theatre making worlds.
Drama and Movement Therapy
The MA Drama and Movement Therapy course at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama offers a particular pedagogic approach to learning the craft of dramatherapy and is a unique combination of drama and movement within an intensive experiential training.
Acting - Contemporary
The Acting - Contemporary course at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama combines teaching in practical voice, movement and acting techniques with an exploration of some of the key playwrights who have helped forge the canon of Western theatre, from the Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatists to Chekhov, and from Beckett to Kane and beyond.
Writing for Theatre, Film, Radio and Television
Writing for Theatre, Film, Radio and Television offers a vocational training in writing drama across a range of different media contexts. The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama courses provide the opportunity for you to develop the core competencies and skills of the dramatist, to explore your ‘voice’, to develop your confidence in your own writing.
Creative Producing
The MA is for those with existing arts practice who wish to develop relevant knowledge and expertise, creative entrepreneurial and project management skills and become part of Central’s extensive network of industry collaborators. The Creative Producing program is offered at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
Applied Theatre
The MA Applied Theatre at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama encourages investigation into the possibilities and contradictions of drama and theatre practice as transformative and rehabilitative, and engages practically and critically with a range of theories and current practices.
Acting for Screen
The MA Acting for Screen degree at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama is a professional training that focuses on acting in film, television and screen-related media. Primarily for those with previous training or professional experience, it explores the expressive potential of performance and the relationship between performers and camera.
Movement - Directing and Teaching
Central has a long-standing and well recognised reputation for the dissemination of actor movement disciplines within the British theatre scene; these pioneering courses are the first of their kind in Europe. The Movement - Directing and Teaching program is offered at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.