Acting

Join a lively community of like-minded people on our Spotlight accredited course, to explore a breadth of acting skills from voice and movement training practices through to how to approach script work; working as an ensemble; acting for screen; applied theatre/theatre in education; devising your own work; alongside performance and production opportunities across different drama/theatre genres at each level. Learn by doing! It’s a competitive industry so you’ll need to be up for the challenge, but over three years you will get to enrich your imagination, build resilience, a disciplined working ethos and consolidate your own working methodology. You’ll develop the artistic skills to forge a successful career as an actor but your skillset will also serve you well across a range of creative employment routes in the arts industry and beyond.

• Spotlight Accredited: Our partnership with Spotlight offers you discounted graduate membership to the largest casting resource in the UK, including a dedicated ‘graduate’ section on their website, access to their one-to-one career advice sessions and more

• Industry connections: Benefit from collaborations with professional actors/makers, directors, movement specialists, producers, agents, alongside links with major arts organisations, including Hat Fair, The Point Eastleigh, and The Mayflower Theatre and Studios, giving you real-world experience and networking opportunities

• Media production access: Use two HD TV studios with green screens, a computerised radio studio, and professional film-making equipment to broaden your skill set

• Perform in professional venues: Take part in a full-scale production and other performance events in a large public professional venue via our Play to the Crowd Partners at Theatre Royal Winchester.

• State-of-the-art facilities: Rehearse and perform in five bespoke Performing Arts Studios equipped with the latest technology for your productions, plus two 'black box' performance spaces/studios

• Build your professional portfolio: Graduate with superb collaborative and communication skills and a portfolio of work that includes materials ready to impress casting directors and agents, online and in-person; a selection of work created by you that could be pitched to festivals and venues.

This is a highly vocational programme with a conservatoire-style intensity of focus. It is delivered by our talented teaching staff who have worked around the world as actors, directors, stage managers, and technicians.

The course combines elements of traditional actor training with specialist content in community and theatre-in-education work alongside outdoor and site-specific performance. As well as mastering body, voice and movement skills you may find yourself performing in schools or at summer festivals.

You will work in a variety of genres and repertoires, from classical to contemporary, and take part in regular performances so that you graduate ready for professional life on the stage, screen and radio.

https://www.winchester.ac.uk/w410