Writing for Theatre, Film, Radio and Television (Taught)

The MA/MFA Writing for Theatre, Film, Radio and Television offers a vocational training in writing drama across a range of different media contexts.

Both the MA and MFA courses provide the opportunity for you to develop the core competencies and skills of the dramatist, to explore your ‘voice’, to develop your confidence in your own writing and to understand the different media contexts within which you might work as a professional scriptwriter.

• Train to write drama for different media including theatre, film, television and radio

• Study the history of dramatic writing and explore its future

• Work with actors and be taught by industry professionals

Key features of the course:
Practice-based enquiry into techniques and processes for writing for stage and screen;
A series of writing projects engaging with different styles and media formats;
Research into and critical analysis of dramatic writing techniques and related issues in the fields of theatre, cinema, television, radio and other relevant contexts.

Developing Stories
Students are introduced to the theories underlying effective story structure across the different dramatic media and experiment with these in crafting their scripts. Students will also develop the skills required to produce a good outline, understanding the range of forms and terms used across different mediums and their purposes in the industry.

The working writer
Students explore current working practices for writers in the dramatic industries. Through working in a writers workshop, students will also present work-in-progress to their peers and tutors to receive feedback, engage with professional writers and industry professionals.

Writing for theatrical and broadcast media
Over the course of the degree, students will look at specific structures and medium considerations, which writers reflect on, when producing work to be experienced in a theatre environment, or to be consumed in audiences’ own private spaces.

Sustained independent work
Students will work to produce a full-length script (MA) or scripts (MFA) at the culmination of their studies.

• Practice-based enquiry into techniques and processes for writing for stage and screen;

• A series of writing projects engaging with different styles and media formats;

• Research into dramatic writing techniques and issues of performance in relation to theatre, cinema, television, radio and other relevant contexts.