Overview

At the University of Surrey  You will be taught and advised by leading West End directors, casting agents, experienced professionals and leading academics, giving you a unique and comprehensive support network and knowledge base.

Career opportunities

• GSA facilities rank amongst some of the best professional training facilities in the UK conservatoire sector. As part of the University of Surrey, students also have full access to the university's facilities, offering you world-class conservatoire training in a top university environment. Truly the best of both worlds! On the MFA Musical Theatre , you’ll gain a broad range of musical theatre knowledge and skills while performing in a variety of outstanding productions. Supported by first-class teaching, your learning will involve a working knowledge of historical, critical and theoretical content, and the creation of performances that will be presented to agents and professionals for maximum industry exposure. You will take skills classes in acting, singing and dancing, and will have professional development sessions where you will learn how the industry works and how you fit within it. Rehearsal projects of excerpts of musicals will integrate your skills and your first year culminates in a public performance with your peers. In the second year you will undertake a Pedagogies module and will appear in a joint public performance with the MA actors before a production of a new musical. The programme culminates in a sustained independent project. GSA has an excellent reputation as a conservatoire, and graduates are sought for a variety of roles in the performing arts, as performers, creatives and as production staff. We consistently nurture students to become highly employable and resilient graduates, with a sophisticated toolkit of transferable skills, and the Graduate Outcomes 2024, HESA showed that 94 per cent of our Guildford School of Acting postgraduate students go on to employment or further study.