Courses

Increase the impact and effectiveness of your networking and communication style.

Take part in an 8-week evening course led by industry professionals. From acting to directing, courses are suitable for a range of abilities.

From a large multi-stage music festival to a local performing arts festival, or even a brand marketing event, this course teaches you how to develop your idea and make it a reality.

A one year, part-time course to develop your acting skills. This diploma is designed for those aged 18-25 who are interested in preparing to apply for an acting course at higher education level.

Discover how to improvise with confidence, developing spontaneity and presence along the way.

Rediscover Shakespeare, as interpreted through a range of cultural perspectives

Discover how to prepare effectively for all types of interviews and develop techniques to help manage interview nerves.

Explore Fitzmaurice Voicework®, a body-centred approach to vocal training that engages the breath, voice, body, nervous system and imagination - all in the service of speaking and singing with connection, intention and presence with minimal effort.

Open up to a sense of playfulness on this three-day introductory clowning course.

This training seeks to engage the body, from the point of release, flow and action. The training allows you to become more confident, expressive and articulate both in performance and everyday life.

A course which develops your skills as a musical theatre performer, with specific classes on singing, dance, improvisation, text analysis, voice, movement and character development.

An opportunity to explore how to perform in musical theatre and to develop skills used in the various performance strands of musical theatre, including singing, movement and acting.

Explore how to sing in character and how acting techniques can underpin vocal technique.

This intensive short course for theatre professionals will explore how dramatherapy techniques can be used to establish a safe, creative and productive rehearsal room.

Develop your skills as an actor with classes on acting fundamentals, text analysis, voice, movement, devising, voiceover and acting for screen.

This course is practical, part time and delivered online with an in-person summer intensive at Central.

A practical introduction to physical theatre, devising and theatre-making. Exploring a broad range of creative approaches, the course will stimulate your imagination, develop your collaborative, making and performance skills while offering insights and explorations into the world of theatre-making.

Begin to engage practically and theoretically with Shakespeare’s plays by learning how to perform Shakespearean texts, bring a critical perspective, and evaluate the choices available to the actor.

Introduces participants to studying drama in higher education, providing practical skills for preparing to enter university, or drama school.

This three-week intensive programme offers those developing a passion for puppetry a unique insight into the theatre-making process with puppets.

Spend your summer at Central with a summer short course. Ranging from 2 days to 3 weeks, there are courses for all abilities.