Acting, BA

at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama

Year 1
 

Discovery – freeing and discovering. In your first year, an environment of active learning is carefully nurtured:

• Particular emphasis is placed on the individual actor’s aptitude for self expression within a collaborative class, rehearsal and production setting

• Learn to open up the body, voice and imagination

• Embrace methodologies that promote professional discipline and self-discovery alongside the development of techniques that lead to a psychologically rooted, physically-embodied character.
   

Year 2
 

Mastery – expanding form and meaning. This year builds on core training:

• Discover how to take what you have learned into new and intensified theatrical contexts

• Expand your own physical, vocal and emotional range to meet the demands of classical and contemporary performance styles

• Encounter a wide range of complex texts, exploring a heightened use of physicality, voice and speech (including accents and dialects) and the dramatic imagination

• Learn to transfer skills to both television and radio

• Towards the end of the year you will start to think about how to apply your training within industry settings.
   

Year 3
 

Independence – applying the craft of acting. This year focuses exclusively on the ‘industry-ready’ actor:

• Perform in a number of productions that aim to consolidate your skills in acting, voice and movement

• Embrace a broad range of industry-specific skills as part of a rigorous transition from personal development to career-orientation, including the presentation of an industry-targeted showcase

• Develop an in-depth understanding and knowledge of the industry, meeting and speaking with industry professionals, such as agents, casting directors and working actors

• Learn how to find work by acquiring skills in auditioning, television castings, selftaping and the production of showreels and voice reels.

2 A Levels at C, 3 GCSEs at C, and selection by audition.
 

Normal offers may be higher and depend upon expected grades and audition performance. Exceptional applicants who do not meet this requirement, but demonstrate appropriate potential, may be accepted.

English Language Requirements

Applicants for whom English is not their first language are required to prove their English language proficiency by gaining an overall score of 7.0 in an IELTS test. We do accept equivalent English language qualifications. Applicants are advised to gain this certification as early as possible and more information can be found

The fees for Acting, BA  may vary from £25,000 to £35,000 annually for tuition fees. The fee's prices may get higher for International Students.

Recent BA (Hons) Acting graduate successes include:
 

Theatre

• title role in Dr Faustus, Duke of York’s Theatre;

• Baba in Hero’s Welcome, written and directed by Alan Ayckbourn, Stephen Joseph Theatre;

• Lucy in A Room With A View, Adrian Noble/Bath Theatre Royal;

• Straker in Man And Superman, National Theatre;

• Tara in Overshadowed, The New Theatre, Dublin;

• Rico in The Shawshank Redemption, Bill Kenwright national tour;

• Alice in Right Now, Michael Boyd/Bush Theatre national tour;

• Charlotte Serber in Oppenheimer, Royal Shakespeare Company;

• Ray Davies (lead) in Sunny Afternoon, Harold Pinter Theatre;

• Rodolpho in A View From The Bridge, Young Vic;

• Constable MacDonald in The Ladykillers, Watermill Theatre, Newbury;

• title role in Hamlet, Shakespeare’s Globe;

• Taj in Pine, Hampstead Theatre;

• Sam Desai in The Suicide, National Theatre;

• Pamela in Five Finger Exercise, Print Room;

• Student in Losing Our Children To Islamic State, National Theatre;

• Claudio in Much Ado About Nothing, Dundee Rep;

• Amy in Dry Land, Jermyn Street Theatre;

• Berowne in Love’s Labour’s Lost, Oxford Shakespeare Company;

• Jack in The Importance Of Being Earnest, Pitlochry Festival Theatre;

• Circe in The Odyssey; Missing Presumed Dead, Liverpool Everyman;

• Trim in Solace Of The Road, Derby Theatre;

• Shane in Brassed Off, Oldham Coliseum.
   

Television

• Jon Snow in Game Of Thrones, HBO;

• Adam in Apple Tree Yard, Dwight Enys in Poldark, Hedges in The Secret Agent, Mary in Dickensian, Young Anita Harris in Cradle to Grave, Sarah Francis in Father Brown, Andrew’s Assistant in Episodes, Theresa in Birds Of A Feather, BBC;

• Easter in Jericho, Odile in Maigret Sets A Trap, Kylie Platt (regular) in Coronation Street, Dr Lennon in Emmerdale, Dash in Vera, ITV;

• Ru’A in Tyrant, Kevan Carson in Ebola, Fox;

• Ken in The Five, Keckers (regular) in Stella, Sky 1;

• Lizzie in 4 O’Clock Club, CBBC;

• Helen in Pobol y Cwm, BBC Wales;

• Princess Gisla in Vikings, Sergeant Harold Reed in Murder Maps, History Channel;

• Corporal Stewart in Rebellion, RTÉ;

• Liv Nygaard in Fortitude, Sky Atlantic;

• PC Taz Ahmed in No Offence, Channel 4;

• Cromwell in Drunk History, Comedy Central;

• Lieutenant Jeremy Foster in Outlander, Starz;

• Aiden Stockton in Spark, ABC;

• Iolo in Dim Ond y Gwir, S4C;

• Patrick Mackay in Killer Psychopaths, Channel 5;

• Joan in Joan Of Arc, BYUtv.
   

Film

• Billy Lynn in Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, TriStar Pictures (directed by Ang Lee);

• Sophie Dunant in Unhallowed Ground (Ind Brit Horror directed by Russell England);

• Mark Hudson (lead) in Entirely Accidental (US Feature directed by Maxime Arthur Gibert);

• Deedee in What Happened Last Night (US Feature directed by Candice T. Cain);

• Samuel in Brimstone (US feature directed by Martin Koolhoven);

• Audrey Donahue in Trust Fund (US feature directed by Sandra L. Martin);

• Faz in Lies We Tell (US feature directed by Mitu Misra);

• James in FirstBorn (UK feature directed by Nirpal Bhogal);

• Tomas in Modern Love (UK feature directed by Simon Aitken);

• Jeannie Callaghan in The Holly Kane Experiment (UK feature directed by Tom Sands);

• Python Suit in Brash Young Turks (UK feature directed by Naeem Mahmood);

• Percy in D is for Detroit (UK feature directed by Israr Azam);

• Nina in The Scampi Trail (UK feature directed by Craig Gallivan and Will Norris);

• Karen Cramer in Live to Tell (US feature directed by Candice T. Cain);

• Tim in Film Stars Don’t Die In Liverpool (UK feature directed by Paul McGuigan).
   

Radio

• Young Ishmael in Moby Dick

• Lovel in The Antiquary (Walter Scott series)

• Hudson in The Reserve Rope, Brill Productions, BBC Radio 4.