Acting

Our BA (Hons) Acting degree courses are designed and delivered by experienced, professional actors, directors, theatre makers, practitioners and scholars who are passionate about actor training and have a wealth of domestic and international experience. The courses continue to be shaped by their ongoing work within the industry and their knowledge of the most relevant techniques.

We work and train with an emphasis on the ensemble.
Prepare for a career in theatre, film and performance as you undertake world-renowned, interdisciplinary actor training.
Develop as an actor with depth and professional integrity.
Devise, create and produce bold and original work.

Each day you’ll challenge and enhance your skillset - developing the capacity, dexterity and performance fitness (mental and physical) required for professional acting work.

Alongside introductions to key artistic, socio-political, and philosophical principles, you’ll have multiple live and screen performance opportunities, including a West End venue for your final year industry showcase.

At Fourth Monkey, we celebrate the individual. We offer you the opportunity to develop your expressive and interpretive skills as an actor and push you to discover and embrace your unique voice.

You will graduate with the necessary skills to work in classical and contemporary theatre, television, film, radio and the digital world, as well as being an accomplished artist in your own right. Students are entitled to full Equity status upon graduation and qualify for inclusion on Graduate Spotlight as a key part of their professional progression to industry.

The BA (Hons) Acting degree is built upon the four pillars of the Fourth Monkey training philosophy: ACT. MAKE. MOVE. COLLABORATE.

The Fourth Monkey BA courses are truly multi-disciplinary. In your preparations for digital and screen performance, you'll be trained in motion capture and stage combat; learn the art of screen-writing; develop a professional voice-reel; and produce a short film - all before shooting your graduate showreel scenes.

You'll prepare for your contemporary and classical stage productions with a study of theatrical methodologies and techniques from all over the world including Grotowski, Suzuki and Butoh.

We deliver unique and innovative actor training, underpinned by the Meisner and Lecoq methods, that produces employable and proactive artists into the industry.

Often imitated but never surpassed, our BA (Hons) Acting courses prepare you for a successful and sustainable career in the arts.

The learning pathway has been forged with your future in mind which is why our actors graduate feeling confident and ready to carry the fire with them into the industry.

Starting with the fundamental elements of performance and culminating in an array of live and recorded performances, your journey to becoming a professional actor begins at Fourth Monkey.

This course is taught at Fourth Monkey in London, and awarded by Falmouth University

Level 4
In the first two study blocks of your training, you will encounter the fundamentals of acting and creating work for both stage and digital performance through multidisciplinary studio practice. Your training will be embodied and far-reaching, exploring work through an international, multidisciplinary, and multicultural lens. Focused equitably on both stage and screen you will embark on a learning journey that encompasses Fourth Monkey’s four key pillars of learning with the focus on developing employable skills as an actor, mover, vocal artist and collaborative creative maker across all industry mediums.

Level 4 Modules - Core Principles & Application:
Discovering What Moves Me...
Play!
Who Am I?
Technique Into Performance
Expressive Exploration
Creating My Own Work

Level 5
In these two study blocks you can expect to expand and continue to develop your core skills, but also to acquire a more advanced expressive range and technical capacity in different media. You will be required to apply these skills to interpreting and generating more complex material for performance, take more responsibility for your development and encounter more sophisticated practices and styles, alongside beginning to test your skills against the requirements of professional contexts and structures. A higher level of practical independence is expected, and the balance of taught classes and sessions is weighted more to rehearsal sessions for performance, within which you will be expected to actively bring together all your skills from your studio practice.

Level 5 Modules - Expansion & Professional Perspectives:
Widening Technical Practice
Performance Projects
Professional Preparation
Contemporary Techniques
Integrated Performance

Level 6
In the final two study blocks you can expect to shape and present yourself and your skills in both live and digital performance in a variety of public and professional contexts to industry. This culminates in your industry showcase in a central London venue and the compilation of your professional portfolio. Your portfolio will incorporate your showreels and voice reel whilst you will also undertake professional preparation sessions with leading industry figures from agents to casting directors, voice-over agents to motion-capture specialists, intimacy coordinators to headshot photographers whilst also undertaking your stage combat examination as part of your training journey. You will be expected to adapt your personal process and approach to meet the demands of varying professional practitioners, directors, and environments and to independently conceive, develop and realise your own original work for both live performance and film. Performances will be open to the public, and you will be working with external professional directors and engaging with industry gatekeepers as you launch your professional career.

Level 6 Modules - Industry Facing... & Velocity!:
Professional & Media Portfolio
Creative Classical Project
Contemporary Industry Season
Experimental Performance Project

Non-Assessed Professional Preparation Projects:
Industry Showcase at a London Theatre
Stage Combat Certification
Short Film Project
Motion Capture
Scriptwriting Project
Agent & Casting Director Audition/Self-Tape Bootcamp
Industry Q&A’s: Seminars from leading industry professionals in stage, screen, motion capture and voiceover
Taxation & Self-Employment Workshops
Headshot Photography Preparation
Intimacy Coordination / Direction

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