Royal Central School of Speech & Drama Masters Degrees

Designed primarily for students with previous experience and/or training, the MA Acting - Classical masters programme at Central is a creatively, physically and intellectually demanding, advanced level, conservatoire acting programme specialising in Classical plays. Read more

Designed primarily for students with previous experience and/or training, the MA Acting - Contemporary masters programme at Central is a creatively, physically and intellectually demanding, advanced level, conservatoire acting programme specialising in Contemporary plays. Read more

The MA Acting for Screen masters degree course at Central is a professional training that focuses on acting in film, television and screen-related media. Read more

The MA Applied Theatre encourages investigation into the possibilities and contradictions of drama and theatre practice as transformative and rehabilitative, and engages practically and critically with a range of theories and current practices. Read more

The MA Drama and Movement Therapy course at Central offers a particular pedagogic approach to learning the craft of dramatherapy and is a unique combination of drama and movement within an intensive experiential training. Read more

On the MA Music Theatre at Central, we see performers as creators, and regularly produce new works with professional composers, writers, directors and choreographers. Read more

The cultural hub of London is the venue for the MA Theatre Criticism and Dramaturgy at Central (MA TCD). The course balances theoretical study of theatre and performance with the development of diverse skills for dramaturgy and criticism, with applications in scholarship and across the creative industries. Read more

Together with the MA/MFA Voice Studies and the MA/MFA Movement. Directing and Teaching courses, Actor Training and Coaching is one of Central’s postgraduate degrees that exposes you to high-level training practice. Read more

As a student on the MA or MFA Advanced Theatre Practice at Central, you can expect to. Engage in a collaborative laboratory for practical experiment Create new work for an extensive range of public encounters Play a leading role in tomorrow’s performance and theatre making worlds. Read more

As a student on the MA/MFA Creative Producing programme at Central, you will. Read more

Central has a long-standing and well recognised reputation for the dissemination of actor movement disciplines within the British theatre scene; these pioneering courses are the first of their kind in Europe. Read more

If you have an established practice and/or background in performance theory, on the MA/MFA Performance Practice as Research you can take your work to the edges of your specialism(s), exploring untouched ground, establishing new ways of thinking about and doing performance, while pushing the boundaries of your discipline(s). Read more

Some of the major innovations in performance practices over the past hundred years have been drawn from scenographic developments. Read more

Voice Studies courses at Central are nationally and internationally renowned, giving a specialised education in the study and practice of the spoken voice. Read more

The MA/MFA Writing for Stage and Broadcast Media offers a vocational training in writing drama across a range of different media contexts.  Both the… Read more