Performance Programme

The Performance programme consists of the following courses:

Foundation Studies in Performance

A Drama Centre Course at Central Saint Martins. With its focus firmly on practical skills and techniques, Foundation Studies in Performance broadens your horizons and lets you test your aims and aptitudes in a supportive environment.

College: Central Saint Martins
Level: Pre-degree

BA (Hons) Acting

A Drama Centre course at Central Saint Martins. BA Acting prepares you for direct entry to the profession while laying the foundations for a lifelong acting career. Intensive and vocational, it’s based on the work of teaching giants like Stanislavsky.

College: Central Saint Martins
Level: Undergraduate

BA (Hons) Performance: Design and Practice

Challenging assumptions and territories, this course explores theatre, film, video and live art. It emphasises collaborative practice, instilling a strong set of specialist and transferable skills. In the final year you’ll shape your own individual project, anticipating your future in this diverse and expanding sector.

College: Central Saint Martins
Level: Undergraduate

MA Acting

A Drama Centre course at Central Saint Martins. MA Acting is an intensive 45 week conservatoire actor training course. Eight weeks of the course are spent studying in Moscow.

College: Central Saint Martins
Level: Postgraduate

MA Character Animation

Ideas for stories and characters, but not sure how to go about it? Want to make your drawings move? MA Character Animation appeals to designers, artists, illustrators and others who want to learn how to animate.

College: Central Saint Martins
Level: Postgraduate

MA Directing

A Drama Centre course at Central Saint Martins. MA Directing is a four year integrated Masters course which equips you with the artistic and technical skills suitable for work or for further training in theatre, film, television and radio.

College: Central Saint Martins
Level: Undergraduate

MA Dramatic Writing

The Masters in Dramatic Writing at Central Saint Martins is an extended full-time course delivered over two years. It provides a challenging though supportive learning environment through which students explore the craft of writing for drama and performance.

College: Central Saint Martins
Level: Postgraduate

MA Performance Design and Practice

This course brings together artists, directors, writers, researchers and designers to set the agendas that will drive performance practice in the 21st century. Graduates go on to professional practice, working as influential directors, writers and producers in theatre, TV, film, opera or dance, or progress to research degree study.

College: Central Saint Martins
Level: Postgraduate

MA Screen: Acting

A Drama Centre course at Central Saint Martins. MA Screen Acting course specialises in giving the actor a rigorous and intense conservatoire training focused on delivering performance for the screen.

College: Central Saint Martins
Level: Postgraduate

MA Screen: Directing

A Drama Centre course at Central Saint Martins. This intensive course gives you a unique insight into an actor's conservatoire training, giving the director the intellectual and artistic tools to better communicate and stimulate a creative performance from actors on film.

College: Central Saint Martins
Level: Postgraduate