207 Master's in Drama in Europe

Ignite your creativity with University of East Anglia's MA in Contemporary Theatre Practice. You’ll combine high-level theatrical skills training with a wealth of opportunities to gain real-world insight and experience in today’s theatre industry.

Kick-start your passion for directing and dramaturgy at UEA, with one of the UK’s longest-standing Master's courses in Theatre Directing. Based in the School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing, the Theatre Directing - Text and Production programme offered by University of East Anglia boasts an interdisciplinary approach. 

Our Acting MFA is an intensive and rigorous postgraduate programme designed to train highly versatile, contemporary performance practitioners.

Undertaking this Performing Arts programme at the University of Huddersfield means joining an internationally recognised research community spanning music, music technology, acting and performance. 

This Secondary Drama with QTS course from Manchester Metropolitan University prepares you to teach the secondary school drama curriculum for the 11-16 age range. 

On Acting for Stage, Screen and Radio at Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama you’ll develop the intuitive, intellectual and empathic qualities that drive you to perform at the highest levels of artistic practice. 

This World Theatres programme, offered by Goldsmiths, University of London, is one of the few taught Masters programmes of its kind in the world. Covering historical and philosophical bases of theatre and performance practices from different parts of the world, this degree investigates indigenous and contemporary performance and theatre traditions from a variety of cultural contexts.

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.  

The Art and Performance Research Studies programme of the University of Amsterdam is for students who are interested in doing historical, theoretical and practice-based research into the visual and performative arts. In this Master's, students will be challenged and will learn how to develop and execute research ideas in an interdisciplinary, cross-disciplinary and cross-media environment.

This MFA in Performance program at American College Dublin provides a student with an advanced introduction to the challenges and possibilities of organizing and presenting a public professional performance. Based around the development of a substantial live performance, the program also offers supervision on an agreed dissertation topic and two courses in management and marketing.

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. 

This master's programme in Music, Theatre and Performance Studies at University of Groningen offers two specializations: one in Popular Music, Sound and Media Cultures and another in Theatre, Culture and Media studies. Each specialization encompasses both emergent and historically established practices in music and theatre and the performing arts.

The Writing for Stage and Screen M.A. at University College Dublin is a comprehensive postgraduate programme designed for creative writers. This one-year full-time or two-year part-time course focuses on developing professional scripts across diverse media platforms, providing expert mentorship in a public study mode.

This Theatre Directing course at Royal Holloway University of London is a rigorous, intensive, demanding training in theatre directing where you will work with professional actors to develop your directing skills. 

The Theatre Practice programme at University College Dublin is a comprehensive M.A. degree delivered over one year of full-time study. This public course combines academic rigour with professional training to develop future industry leaders, equipping them with the creative and conceptual skills needed for modern production.

The Master in Dramaturgy from Goethe University Frankfurt is a programme of the Chair of Theatre Studies at the Institute for Theatre, Film and Media Studies. At the same time it is part of the Hessian Theatre Academy, an academic and production association of programmes in Hessian tertiary institutions that provide theatre qualifications, and the most important Hessian city and state theatre.

The Comparative Dramaturgy and Performance Research program from Goethe University Frankfurt is currently offered by five European universities. It is designed for students interested in employment in international and intercultural contexts such as festivals, co-productions, exchange programs, and collaborations.  

 This Intercultural Practices MA course from University of the Arts London (UAL) encourages the sharing of these perspectives to develop your agency as an artist and cultural producer. 

The Advanced Performance course, offered as a Postgraduate Certificate (PgCert) at the University of Chichester, is designed for those aiming to specialise in instrumental, vocal, orchestral, or musical theatre performance. The programme duration is one year and is available for full-time study.

The Music Performance Studies programme at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) aims to give our students good basis to develop their artistic expression and competence on their instrument, an individual expression and different ways of expressing this.