Masters Degrees in Performance & Live Arts

Explore the creative application of design elements, including light, space, and costume, discovering how to shape live performance and generate meaning for contemporary audiences. Read more

The programme is interdisciplinary in its scope, and provides students with a range of opportunities to analyse and create theatre and performance in relation to a wide variety of critical contexts and cultural and historical perspectives. Read more

Are you an emergent theatre and performance maker wishing to advance your career as a practitioner, instructor or critic? Hone your performance skills and enhance your knowledge of performance training processes. Read more

Develop cutting-edge practices and approaches to contemporary performance-making in an interdisciplinary, laboratory environment, with a focus on creative exploration. Read more

This MA provides a unique opportunity to develop collaborative theatre making skills informed by leading practitioners working in the field of contemporary… Read more

This highly distinctive MA course, run as a partnership between Birkbeck and . RADA. , brings together cutting-edge practice and scholarship in theatre and performance. Read more

Our course offers the opportunity to study theatre and performance studies in a dynamic research environment in the heart of London. Read more

This research masters programme will enable you to become an innovative, confident and well-prepared researcher in an area of 20th century or contemporary theatre, live art, popular or interdisciplinary performance. Read more

This innovative MA programme combines a range of diverse approaches to making performance, drawing on devising, physical theatre, directing, socially engaged practice, solo work and live art. Read more

Designed by performance makers for performance makers, this course will give you the opportunity to make new theatre, dance, digital and live performance work. Read more

This MA programme offers an interdisciplinary and multicultural perspective in contemporary performance practice and research. Read more

Explore diverse forms of contemporary theatre with this practical course. You'll improve both your research and performance skills by working with practising theatre-makers and arts organisations, all whilst based in the UK's best theatre city outside of London. Read more

We have a large group of about 70 PhD students in the department at any one time, so you’ll always feel supported as part of the research community. Read more

Our MA Playwriting course is an intensive one-year programme designed to provide a genuine gateway into a writing career in the theatre and performance industries. Read more

This unique international laboratory programme brings diverse individuals into collaborative research, acknowledging the challenges of creating original, performer-driven theatre in today's complex, globalised culture. Read more