Performance - Writing

Overview

Why choose this Performance - Writing programme from University of the Arts London (UAL)

• Diverse training: Your studies will cover various forms of dramatic writing including theatre, film, television, radio and digital media.
• Industry links: MA Performance: Writing has connections with high-profile theatres, television, radio and digital media organisations – nationally and internationally.
• Collaboration: The course offers potential for collaboration across courses in the Performance programme at Central Saint Martins and relevant courses throughout the University.
• Showcase: There is a showcase at the end of the course, in which extracts of work are shown to industry professionals.

Careers and alumni

Graduates from MA Performance: Writing will be equipped to work with creativity and focus in diverse environments, and to design and explore their own ways of working, confident in building and maintaining working relationships, yet also aware of their unique role in being the ‘champions’ of the story.

The aspiration for graduates is that they are prepared to embark on professional practice as dramatic writers and storytellers with:

• a knowledge of dramatic media and forms, an understanding of the landscape and practice of dramatic writing, and an insight into what constitutes successful writing and writers
• a range of technical facilities and capabilities, such as script formatting, project planning, dramatic structure and re-writing
• a body of practice-based projects, experience, and finished scripted works
• an appreciation of their developing voice as an artist, with the imagination and confidence that such self-reflection can afford
• a body of connections and experience with leading industry practitioners, projects and ideas.