Course summary

Please apply directly to the College. Rose Bruford College’s Acting MA/MFA is an intensive and rigorous postgraduate programme designed to train highly versatile, contemporary performance practitioners. Through focused, practical training, you’ll develop the skills, confidence, and knowledge to perform across a wide range of contexts. You’ll also be empowered to create your own work in diverse settings – including devised theatre, movement-led pieces, community events, and more. Rather than following a single methodology, The Acting MA/MFA takes an innovative approach to actor training. Alongside traditional techniques such as psychological realism, Shakespeare, and text analysis, you will expand your practice through physical performance, compositional skills, extended vocal techniques and contemporary methods including Viewpoints, Suzuki training, Devising, Gaga and more. You will also engage in workshops exploring new and emerging technologies, ensuring your training equips you for the evolving landscape of performance. Your training will be led by active practitioners from world-renowned theatres and ensembles. Recent tutors and visiting artists have included members of Complicité, Punchdrunk, Cheek by Jowl, Shunt, the Royal Court Theatre, Sasha Waltz & Guests, as well as leading directors, writers and makers such as Katie Mitchell, Dimitris Papaioannou, Martin Crimp and Tim Etchells (Forced Entertainment). By engaging with both contemporary performance-making methodologies and rigorous actor training, you will develop as a multi-hyphenate performer-maker, able to create original work, collaborate with other artists, and perform in productions led by others. In addition to intensive studio-based training, you will join a community of home and international postgraduate students across the College, where you will explore practice-based research as a key element of your studies. Why choose this course? Expert training You'll learn from and be mentored by internationally renowned practitioners at the forefront of their fields. Their vast expertise will help you refine your existing skills, expand your creative toolkit, and take ownership of your development as an innovative and versatile theatre-maker. Innovative approach Through intensive training and study, you will grow as both an artist and researcher, combining traditional techniques with contemporary practices. You’ll be supported in a culture that values experimentation, creative risk-taking and collaboration, empowering you to shape the field as a forward-thinking practitioner. Collaborative ethos You’ll collaborate with artists from diverse disciplines and work alongside students from around the world with varied interests, developing your ability to exchange ideas and create across different practices, approaches and areas of expertise. Contacts and Networking Work directly with leading performing arts practitioners, enabling you to gain industry contacts and develop a professional network of creative relationships within your cohort and the performing arts field at large Find out more at: https://www.bruford.ac.uk/study/postgraduate-courses/ma-mfa-acting/ Check out our events and webinars: https://www.bruford.ac.uk/open-days-and-webinars/