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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Explore diverse forms of contemporary theatre with this practical course. You’ll study areas including devised performance and live art, community and applied theatres, new playwriting, classic texts on the contemporary stage, and documentary and verbatim theatre.

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.

Get professional training in dramatherapy. our emphasis on clinical placements and a range of dramatherapy approaches will prepare you for work in the arts therapies.

The. MA in Classical Acting. is a postgraduate acting course for live-performance actors at all stages of their career and is taught by highly regarded specialists in acting and directing.