Acting

UCAS code: W410

Here's what University of Winchester says about its Acting course.

• Work with a supportive and dedicated teaching team who combine a wealth of industry performance, production and publication experience

• Build an impressive portfolio of performances to enhance your CV whilst you study

• Create your own work for public performance in a studio theatre space with a view to touring your work to festivals after graduating

• Collaborate on and perform in a full-scale production in a large public venue via our Play to the Crowd Partners at Theatre Royal Winchester

• Rehearse and perform in our excellent Performing Arts Studios which provide six bespoke spaces to create and rehearse for your productions

• Spotlight Accredited: our partnership with Spotlight offers you discounted graduate membership to the largest casting resource in the UK, inclusion in a dedicated ‘graduate’ section on their website, access to their one-to-one career advice sessions and more

Join a lively community of like-minded people on our Spotlight accredited course, to explore a breadth of acting skills from voice and movement training practices through to how to approach script work; working as an ensemble; acting for screen; applied theatre/theatre in education; devising your own work; alongside performance and production opportunities across different drama/theatre genres at each level. Learn by doing! It’s a competitive industry so you’ll need to be up for the challenge, but over three years you will get to enrich your imagination, build resilience, a disciplined working ethos and consolidate your own working methodology. You’ll develop the artistic skills to forge a successful career as an actor but your skillset will also serve you well across a range of creative employment routes in the arts industry and beyond.

This is a highly vocational programme with a conservatoire-style intensity of focus. It is delivered by our talented teaching staff who have worked around the world as actors, directors, stage managers, and technicians.

The course combines elements of traditional actor training with specialist content in community and theatre-in-education work alongside outdoor and site-specific performance. As well as mastering body, voice and movement skills you may find yourself performing in schools or at summer festivals.

You will work in a variety of genres and repertoires, from classical to contemporary, and take part in regular performances so that you graduate ready for professional life on the stage, screen and radio.