Acting for Stage and Screen Edinburgh Napier University

Overview

The Acting for Stage and Screen programme from  Edinburgh Napier University  is a unique 2-year degree that will reflect the challenge for most working actors today, which is to work confidently both in stage and screen acting. 

Quick Facts:

• You will be training within a vibrant, interdisciplinary postgraduate community of film and theatre directors as well as screenwriters and playwrights.

• Classes are delivered by staff with extensive industry experience and the programme is respected within the profession. The Acting for Stage and Screen graduates at the Edinburgh Napier University have been featured on Netflix, Starz, BBC, Amazon Prime, Channel 4, and ITV, as well as working at the Royal National Theatre, The Traverse, the Lyceum Theatre, Dundee Rep, Bard in the Botanics, London Regent’s Park Open Air theatre, and have been nominated for Olivier and Ian Charlson Awards.

• This is a practice-based course, and it aims to prepare students for an industry in which creative problem solving, advanced practical skills, business acumen, teamworking, and self-generated work are critical. The university hopes to train students who will graduate with all these abilities and can thrive as freelance performing artists across a range of opportunities within the creative arts industries.

• Your first year focuses on stage acting.  Alongside taught classes, you will be working with MFA Directors and Playwrights to workshop, develop and hone an original piece for production at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. 

• The second year begins with both stage and screen acting, and in the final two trimesters you will be working with MA Film Directors and Screenwriters to work on short films that will be entered into festivals around the world.  You will also have the chance to work with professional film directors and to create short films of your own devising.

Careers

Career opportunities include:

• Stage and screen acting

• Small-scale producing

• Directing

• Managing and launching small theatre companies

• Theatre company management

• Arts administration

• Various roles in the entertainment industry which require initiative and creativity

• Teaching