Acting
Acting is one of the oldest and most demanding performing arts, requiring practitioners to embody characters and situations with conviction, precision and spontaneity, often in collaboration with a large creative team under the pressures of performance. The discipline draws on voice, movement, physical awareness, textual analysis, rehearsal technique and the psychological and emotional intelligence to inhabit other perspectives authentically. Professional acting training prepares you not just for performance but for the collaborative, self-directed working life of a working actor, which requires resilience, adaptability and a commitment to ongoing creative development.
At Norwich University of the Arts you will train for three years full-time in an institution renowned as a rigorous and visionary creative community, offering courses across art, design, architecture and media. The acting programme provides a serious professional training environment where practice is at the centre of your work, supported by the cross-disciplinary creative context of an arts university. You will develop your craft through performance, rehearsal, voice and movement work, and the collaborative exploration that the NUA environment encourages by bringing together students and practitioners from across the creative disciplines.
Acting graduates enter the professional performance world in theatre, film, television, radio, audio drama, live events and the growing range of digital and immersive entertainment formats. Many also work in community arts, applied theatre, education, casting, arts administration and the creative industries more broadly, where the skills of performance and collaboration have wide application. Teaching, theatre-making, devising and directing are common routes for actors who develop their practice over time.
The life of a working actor is varied and often combines performance with related work in media, education and the arts, and the training NUA provides is designed to prepare you for the full complexity of that professional world.