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Performance and Production

1 Study option · UndergraduateMount Pleasant Campus

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2026-2027
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Course summary

Why study BA (Hons) Performance and Production at Liverpool John Moores University?

  • Bring your own ideas to life and develop work based on your unique interests, helping you discover your voice as a professional creator

  • Collaborate with other creators including students on your course, across creative departments, and with regional partners to produce work that resonates with today's audiences

  • A degree built around three dynamic strands: Performance, Engaged Practices, and Production, each designed to connect and enhance your creative skills, empowering you to create original work

  • Develop your performance skills and abilities for both live and recorded settings, whether it's drama and acting, voice work, film, radio, podcasts, or presenting

  • Push the boundaries of creativity through a mix cutting-edge tech with classic techniques to make performances that are fresh, bold, and totally next level

  • Land that job? Show employers what you've got. Learn how to market your creativity and skills to stand out from the crowd and get hired

About your course

Are you ready to reimagine Drama for the 21st century?

Dive into the BA (Hons) Performance and Production degree at Liverpool John Moores University. Based in the School of Art and Creative Industries, creativity is the driving force behind everything we do.

You'll be at the heart of designing, creating and performing original work for audiences across the Liverpool region and beyond. You will work with experienced professionals who will help you hone your craft through modules designed to develop, challenge, and test your skills. Our Performing Arts department has been successfully educating, inspiring and guiding students for sixty years. This new programme takes everything we’ve built over the decades and makes it relevant for today’s performing arts and media sector.

Do you want…

  • To star in your own story?

  • Direct your own future?

  • Perform your own Production?

  • Create your own content?

  • Develop your own creative voice?

  • Shape technologies of performance for tomorrow’s world?

We will help you achieve these goals. Come to one of our open days, speak to our friendly lecturers and let’s have a conversation about your ambitions and how studying on BA (Hons) Performance and Production can shape your future career.

Ways to study this course

Campuses

  • Mount Pleasant Campus

Study options

  • BA (Hons) • Full-time • 3 Years

Start dates

  • 09/2026

Application codes

Course code:
PPDG
Institution code:
L51

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Application codes

Course code:
PPDG
Institution code:
L51

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