Evening Courses

Course Area Overview

Whether you’d like to dabble in acting, improve your audition technique or write that first play, our Evening Courses offer the opportunity to hone your skills, learn new ones and have great fun along the way. 

For 8 weeks you’ll have access to a host of leading industry professionals, to our teaching facilities in Swiss Cottage and professional training from a world-renowned drama school. 

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Evening Courses

Explore the full range of upcoming evening courses below. 

The safety of our students is our top priority and we’re taking all of the precautions to ensure you are able to enjoy and make the most of your course. Please read Central’s Coronavirus Information and Guidance before booking your place. 

Develop your acting vocabulary by exploring your voice, imagination and physicality in a fun, creative environment.

Short course students performing in a production

Focusing on a single modern text, this course practically introduces you to the skills needed by an actor for the full cycle of a production from rehearsal to staged performance.

Students performing in a short course production

Develop skills in acting for camera through practical workshops, and explore how to prepare for both the acting and technical challenges of screen acting.

Two Short Courses students

This practical course will enable you to find the fun and freedom to play Shakespeare.

7 people sitting in a circle having a conversation

The course delivers practical training for actors who play instruments to learn how these disciplines are integrated, preparing participants for auditions.

Actor musicians performing in a production at Central

An introduction to the theoretical knowledge and essential practical skills needed for a career as a theatre director.

A short course production at Central

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.

Cathryn Robson leading a Fitzmaurice Voicework session

Working with a published playwright, this playwriting course in London practically introduces you to the skills needed to start writing a play for the stage.

A women sat on a chair writing in a notebook

Working with a published playwright, this intermediate playwriting course will continue to build on the skills learnt in the introductory course.

Playwriting students sit in a line of chairs with notepads in their laps

Meeting once a week for eight intensive lessons this screenwriting course is an exciting opportunity to work with an established writer to explore the fundamentals of writing for film and television.

Screenwriting: An Introduction

An introduction to using your voice, you will learn and develop effective techniques to improve your voice as a performer.

Students performing in a short course production

This course takes a multidisciplinary approach to the creation of solo performance for actors, writers, and artists who want to experiment with this eclectic form. 

Hannah Ballou performing in a solo production

Develop your acting vocabulary by exploring your voice, imagination and physicality in a fun, creative environment.

Short course students performing in a production

Focusing on a single modern text, this course practically introduces you to the skills needed by an actor for the full cycle of a production from rehearsal to staged performance.

Students performing in a short course production

Develop skills in acting for camera through practical workshops, and explore how to prepare for both the acting and technical challenges of screen acting.

Two Short Courses students

This practical course will enable you to find the fun and freedom to play Shakespeare.

7 people sitting in a circle having a conversation

The course delivers practical training for actors who play instruments to learn how these disciplines are integrated, preparing participants for auditions.

Actor musicians performing in a production at Central

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.

Cathryn Robson leading a Fitzmaurice Voicework session

An introduction to using your voice, you will learn and develop effective techniques to improve your voice as a performer.

Students performing in a short course production

This course takes a multidisciplinary approach to the creation of solo performance for actors, writers, and artists who want to experiment with this eclectic form. 

Hannah Ballou performing in a solo production

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.

Cathryn Robson leading a Fitzmaurice Voicework session

An introduction to using your voice, you will learn and develop effective techniques to improve your voice as a performer.

Students performing in a short course production

An introduction to the theoretical knowledge and essential practical skills needed for a career as a theatre director.

A short course production at Central

Working with a published playwright, this playwriting course in London practically introduces you to the skills needed to start writing a play for the stage.

A women sat on a chair writing in a notebook

Working with a published playwright, this intermediate playwriting course will continue to build on the skills learnt in the introductory course.

Playwriting students sit in a line of chairs with notepads in their laps

Meeting once a week for eight intensive lessons this screenwriting course is an exciting opportunity to work with an established writer to explore the fundamentals of writing for film and television.

Screenwriting: An Introduction

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