Drama with a Placement Year

Overview

Drama is a powerful, captivating, and collaborative artform. It invites us to reflect on ourselves and the world around us, to tell compelling stories, and to explore bold new ideas. Whether on page, stage, or screen, drama sparks our imagination. It offers rich forms of expression and provides us with frameworks for understanding – and changing – the world.

Drama at UEA offers a dynamic combination of practical, historical, and critical study, with an emphasis on practical skills and exploration. As a UEA Drama graduate, you’ll leave with a rich skill set that demonstrates your adaptability, resilience and versatility. These are qualities that open doors to a wide range of career paths. You’ll learn from experienced artists and researchers who’ll support you in developing both your critical thinking and creative practice, whether your passion lies in acting, directing, design, technical theatre, writing or theatre-making. On BA Drama with a Placement Year, you’ll normally spend 9-12 months of your third year in an industry placement, gaining invaluable work experience and employability skills.

You can follow specialist pathways in acting, theatre-making, or technical theatre, or explore a mixture of them all. You’ll study a range of theatre from around the world, engaging with major theoretical approaches, with actor and director training, and with techniques for creating your own work. You’ll learn about cutting-edge theatre companies and innovative writers. Through all this, you’ll become an engaged, reflective, and creative thinker and theatre-maker.

You’ll work in our professional Drama Studio and will benefit from our highly regarded student-run Minotaur Theatre Company. This will give you the chance to gain even more performance, technical, and scriptwriting experience. Studying in Norwich means you’ll have access to a rich arts scene, including Norwich Theatre, Norwich Arts Centre, and Maddermarket Theatre.

You’ll develop skills for a fulfilling career in the creative industries, such as in theatre, film, or radio. Or you might take your skills in collaboration, presentation, and critical thinking into a host of other professions.

Disclaimer

Course details are subject to change. You should always confirm the details on the provider's website: www.uea.ac.uk