Technical Theatre Arts with Professional Placement

Master your passion for bringing stage and live events to life.

Play a vital technical and creative role in the success of live performance productions. Working in our professional studios and production spaces, you’ll master the skills to captivate audiences.

You’ll learn from practising technical specialists and creative academic staff, becoming an expert in lighting, sound, visual technologies, set construction and stage management. With endless opportunities to work on real events – in collaboration with other students or through our public performance venue – you’ll graduate with real experience to take into industry.

You will:
Gain an all-round technical grounding in live sound, lighting, stage management, rigging and scenic construction
Receive a critical insight into the cultural sector, exploring how performance technologies and professional practice influence each other
Work in state-of-the-art facilities with access to both core industry technology and some of the latest equipment.
Broaden your skills by collaborating with students across a broad range of disciplines including popular music, contemporary dance, and musical, devised and traditional theatre
Gain industry-recognised safety accreditations