Acting and Performance Making

Why study BA Acting and Performance Making at Goldsmiths

Join a bold, process-driven degree for creatives who want to forge their own path in contemporary theatre and performance. Equip yourself with the skills, insight, and confidence to lead and innovate in a changing world.

• You will become what we call an ‘actor-plus’: an actor and performance maker whose work engages with the wider practices that shape performance, including devising, directing, writing, design, producing and critical thinking.

• Studying with us will enable you to work in theatre, performance, screen, digital media, and across the wider creative industries, and will equip you to create, innovate and initiate change as an artist in your own right.

• You will develop skills in collaborating across a range of contexts, including working with a director, engaging in applied theatre settings, and devising and creating your own original performance projects.

• Goldsmiths is recognised internationally for nurturing actors and performance makers who are politically engaged, critically informed and ecologically conscious, and who are shaping the future of theatre and performance.

• You will be introduced to a range of training methods, supporting your development as an artist who can reflect critically on your own process, personal journey, and the ethics of collaboration.

• There will be classes in rehearsal ethics, characterisation and ensemble skills, movement, voice, stage, screen and audio genres, text-based and devised work.

• Our approach encourages you to pursue creative excellence while authoring original work shaped by your own voice, histories and worldviews: we pride ourselves on being a diverse community of makers and thinkers.