Acting for Screen, Stage and Future Media

Acting for screen, stage, and future media is a discipline that takes performance seriously as a craft, a practice, and an evolving art form. The actor's tools, body, voice, imagination, and the ability to inhabit characters and situations truthfully, are as relevant across digital and hybrid media as they are on the traditional stage, and a degree in this field prepares you for the full range of performance contexts that define the contemporary creative industries.

At the University of Plymouth, this three-year full-time degree explores how the body shapes performance across live, digital, and hybrid contexts. You will engage with both theory and practice, investigating embodiment, sensory perception, audience interaction, identity, and movement, and examining the theoretical frameworks that help performers understand and articulate what they do. Key practitioners and thinkers in the field will inform your development as you build your technical and creative range.

The programme is designed for a world in which actors work across multiple formats, from theatrical production and film and television to emerging digital and immersive performance environments, and the curriculum reflects that breadth. A sandwich year provides professional experience in the industry, a year abroad broadens your creative and cultural horizons, and work placement experience is embedded in the degree, connecting your training to real performance contexts.

You will develop your own performance practice alongside the analytical and critical capacities that allow you to reflect on, communicate about, and continue developing your work as a practitioner.

Graduates go on to careers as actors, directors, production assistants, drama facilitators, community theatre practitioners, and creative professionals in the screen, stage, and digital media industries. Many pursue postgraduate study in performance, directing, or drama, and some move into drama education, arts administration, or producing.