Acting and Digital Creativity

Acting and digital creativity is a degree that combines the craft of performance with the skills and perspectives needed to create and communicate through digital media. Acting is one of the oldest of the performing arts, concerned with the interpretation of character, the embodiment of text, and the communication of human experience to an audience through live performance and screen. Digital creativity encompasses the practices and critical understanding needed to make, curate, and distribute creative work across digital platforms and formats.

Together, the combination prepares you for a creative landscape in which performers and creative practitioners increasingly need to be fluent in multiple modes of production and distribution.

At Liverpool Hope University, this four-year programme equips you with the skills, knowledge, and creativity to thrive on stage and screen. Through the acting strand, you will develop your technique across a range of approaches to performance, working on text, movement, voice, and the challenges of acting for different contexts and audiences. Through the digital creativity strand, you will develop competence in digital production, content creation, and the creative possibilities opened up by new media and technologies.

The programme encourages you to bring these two strands into dialogue, developing a versatile creative practice that is relevant to the contemporary industry.

The programme includes a sandwich year, a year abroad, and a work placement, giving you considerable professional experience and international exposure during your studies.

Graduates from acting and digital creativity degrees move into roles in performance, theatre, television, film, and digital media production, as well as in arts education, community theatre, creative direction, content creation, and digital communications. The combination of performance skills and digital competence is increasingly valued by employers in the creative industries, where practitioners who can move between live performance and digital contexts are sought after. Postgraduate study in theatre, performance, or digital arts is an option for those wishing to develop further.