BA (Hons) Acting: Collaborative and Devised Performance

• Receive a thorough actor training that places emphasis on your creative potential to make your own performance work;
• Encounter cutting-edge ideas and experiment with the latest techniques to inform your acting process;
• Work with the most exciting theatre companies, directors, and practitioners in the performing arts industries;
• Extensive industry exposure obtained through public productions and a showcase in Central London for agents and casting directors;
• Notable graduates include Karl Queensborough, Naomi Ackie and Martins Imhangbe.

This unique and innovative actor training programme develops your professional skills to work across theatre, TV, film, and audio and a devising practice that will see you become an accomplished maker of your own performance work.

The programme is known for the high standard of actor training, but also as a space where you can create and tell your own stories in sophisticated and exciting new ways. This is a highly physical and rigorous training that embraces the diversity of our students and nurtures your potential as a creative, imaginative actor and artist. Devising is at the core of the practice with space to structure, develop, and experiment with ideas, theatrical form, and exploration of the most up-to-date modes of performance making in an inclusive and collaborative environment.

Undergraduate actor training at Central

Central’s undergraduate actor training provides a comprehensive grounding in all of the fundamental skills required to be a professional actor for stage, screen and other media forms. Drawing on classical and contemporary playwrights and practitioners, students develop their techniques in an inclusive environment, adopt the approaches that work best for their learning and become adaptable and well-rounded performers. The training also takes advantage of opportunities through emerging technologies such as motion capture.. Central has a rich history of training leading performers found across the creative industries in theatre, film, television and emerging digital content.

Industry-readiness is a core part of the training and all students have opportunities to showcase their skills and build extensive connections and networks that will provide a sustained career way beyond their first professional role. Agent showcases, mock auditions and showreels are just some examples of these opportunities in action, many of which take place in the final year of the course.

Central places importance on developing highly skilled performers, but just as importantly, practitioners who can collaborate effectively and also create their own work.

We place focus at our auditions and on programme on understanding the individual performer and their story; what a student can bring to the training and to the class is just as important as what they get out of it – a rich diversity of stories, experience and backgrounds makes for an inclusive, engaging and impactful training environment.