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10 Master's degrees in Drama in Ireland

Drama and Theatre Studies
The Drama and Theatre Studies programme at University of Galway is a dynamic and practice-rich programme based at the O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance. It blends critical study with hands-on theatre-making, allowing students to shape their learning across areas such as Irish drama, playwriting, directing, applied theatre, and performance theory.

Arts Management and Creative Producing
The Arts Management and Creative Producing degree delivered by the University College Cork will provide you with training in arts leadership and management as well as offering essential practical skills in event organisation across a range of art forms, including amongst others, theatre, music, film, dance, literature, visual, and performance art.

Theatre and Performative Practices
The Theatre and Performative Practices course offered at University College Cork is ideal for those who have acquired theatre-related skills in previous years, for example in a youth or community theatre setting, and now wish to build on that experience and advance it to professional levels with the potential for a career in the professional theatre.
Arts and Engagement
The Arts and Engagement course at Munster Technological University will run part-time, one day a week over two years. Electives are timetabled in 2-day blocks once a month. Successful applicants who have completed the Certificate in Principles of Art Therapy can chose to be exempted from the year one elective.
Theatre and Performance
Theatre and Performance is offered by Trinity College Dublin. The M.Phil. in Theatre and Performance offers a dynamic fusion of theory and practice to nurture the development of future practitioners, researchers, innovators, and leaders of theatre and performance.
Theatre Producing
Theatre Producing is offered by Trinity College Dublin. This MFA course, the first of its kind in Ireland, is a practice-based professional degree which aims to equip students of exceptional talent with the skills necessary to pursue a career in the professional theatre and related industries through the development of skills, professional practices and creative approaches to theatre producing.
Stage Design
The Stage Design programme of Trinity College Dublin is purposely designed to allow students to either specialise on one area of stage design (set, costume OR lighting design) or to combine disciplines as desired (set AND costume design for example, or set AND lighting design).
Theatre Directing
The Theatre Directing programme of Trinity College Dublin is the first entirely practiced-based Masters programme of its kind in Ireland. It was introduced following extensive consultation with the Irish theatre community and is a direct response to the stated needs of the industry and of talented emerging artists.
Theatre Practice
The M.A. in Theatre Practice is offered by University College Dublin in partnership with the Gaiety School of Acting, Dublin and aims to provide students with diverse advanced skills in the practice of theatre grounded in academic and practice-based theories.
Writing for Stage and Screen
The Writing for Stage and Screen MA at University College Dublin offers you the opportunity to devote a considerable amount of time to write, evolve and reflect on your own creative practices.