Undergraduate course
BA (Hons)
Acting for Screen, Stage and Future Media
Train your acting craft to thrive in the expanding and evolving world of digital storytelling, immersive performance and creative technologies. Develop your versatility, ability to self-promote, and collaborate across disciplines.
Our typical offer
104 UCAS points
Perform on stage
Train in our on-campus theatre, The House, where you can rehearse, perform and refine your craft using world-class facilities.
Access industry placements
Get involved with real-world projects with creative organisations such as Aardman, Theatre Royal °µÍø½âÃÜ, Screen Devon and Imaginarium.
Work in the creative sector
Build your own portfolio across screen acting, digital performance and emerging media in major productions and an industry-facing final year.
About
Gain the creative, technical and collaborative skills you need to thrive on screen, on stage, and in digital spaces.
With a focus on research-informed teaching and real-world partnerships, this course is designed to get you industry-ready for a fast-changing creative landscape.
Learning is designed to flow across modules, supporting the progressive development of knowledge, understanding and application. You'll benefit from strong external links, working with professional artists and partner organisations who actively contribute to your training. These connections not only enrich your learning but also offer valuable networking opportunities, helping you to shape your path in the creative industries.
This course is for you if...
you're passionate about performance and want to develop creative skills that adapt to a changing industry
you’re driven to tell stories in new ways, whether on stage, on screen, or through immersive audio
you’re ready to build future-proof skills, grow your network, and step confidently into the creative industries
you want access to world-class studios and expert guidance to prepare for your career
Details
Year 1
Collaborate with directors and creatives to bring stories to life across stage, screen, and emerging media. You'll build your actor’s toolkit through improvisation, voice, and movement and explore how the body communicates in live and recorded environments, from theatre to film and motion capture. Develop scenes from script to performance while engaging critically with design, lighting, and scenography.
Core modules
ACT4011
The Body in Performance
Discover how the body shapes performance across live, digital, and hybrid contexts. This module blends theory and practice to explore embodiment, sensory perception, audience interaction, identity politics, and movement. You'll engage with key thinkers and techniques, examining how the expressive body communicates, challenges norms, and adapts to evolving performance landscapes.
ACT4012
Acting Techniques and Approaches
Train as a versatile actor for today’s stage, screen, and hybrid performance worlds. Explore key techniques from Stanislavsky to global contemporary practices. Through scene work, voice and movement training, and ensemble rehearsal, you’ll build emotional truth, character, and presence. Culminating in live presentations, this module prepares you for the evolving creative industry.
ACT4013
Performance Skills: Improvisation, movement and Voice
Unlock your creative potential through movement, voice, and improvisation. In this hands-on module, you’ll build expressive power, physical awareness, and vocal presence while exploring spontaneous performance and embodied storytelling. With a focus on experimentation and ensemble work, you’ll gain confidence and versatility to work across stage, screen, and emerging performance spaces.
ACT4014
Devising and Production Skills
Create bold, original performances through devising and collaborative making. Explore physical storytelling, multimedia integration, and ensemble techniques while gaining hands-on experience in lighting, sound, and scenography. From improvisation to tech rehearsals, this module builds your creative confidence and production skills for today’s innovative performance industry.
ACT4015
Screen Personality and Presence
Build your confidence with the core technical aspects of screen acting. Through practical workshops, recorded scenes, and playback analysis, you’ll develop emotional authenticity, on-camera presence, and technical awareness. Establish a regular self-tape practice rooted in your creative identity while learning to adapt performance for film, TV, and digital media in today’s fast-evolving industry.
ACT4016
Ensemble Production
Discover the power of collective creation in this module focused on ensemble performance. Explore movement, voice, and devising techniques to build trust, creativity and responsiveness. Inspired by leading ensemble companies, you’ll generate original work from diverse stimuli, experiment with scenography and sound, and develop a shared performance language to create bold, ensemble-based theatre.
Year 2
Expand your performance skills across diverse platforms – from radio and podcasts to immersive theatre and digital media. Explore voice work for audio drama and podcasting, and discover how acting shifts in front of the camera and in motion capture environments. Engage with theatre as a tool for social change through applied practices, and take part in a professional theatre residency. You'll develop your technical awareness with hands-on production experience, collaborating with specialists to bring performances to life in both live and recorded formats.
Core modules
ACT5011
Voice Acting for Contemporary Media
Bring stories to life in the world of voice-over performance. From audio drama and video games to audiobooks and documentaries, this module builds your vocal range, emotional clarity, and technical fluency. You’ll develop a professional self-tape practice, explore mic technique, and learn how to adapt your voice for different formats, preparing you for a career in recorded media.
ACT5012
Acting and Directing for Camera and Contemporary Media
Sharpen your on-camera performance and directing skills for screen and digital media contexts. Learn to adapt stage skills for camera, master multi-camera setups, and develop expressive, authentic screen acting. Through practical workshops and collaboration, you'll build technical fluency and artistic insight in acting, reacting, character work, and directing for screen.
ACT5013
Directred Stage Production
Discover new ways to tell timeless stories by blending live performance with digital media. Inspired by innovative directors like Katie Mitchell, Elizabeth LeCompte and Laurie Anderson, you'll adapt a classic text using digital elements such as video, sound or even virtual reality, to create an immersive theatre experience. Engage in casting, rehearsal, and hybrid storytelling that challenges form and convention.
ACT5014
Auditions, Self-Tapes and Showreels
Sharpen your audition skills for stage, screen, and digital platforms. In this module, you'll explore casting practices, self-taping, and online submissions through practical workshops and simulated auditions. Build confidence, refine technique, and create a showreel to boost your industry readiness across classical theatre, film, TV, and emerging media.
ACT5015
Creative Industries Practice
Explore how contemporary performance responds to real-world industry challenges. In this practical module, you'll engage with industry informed live briefs and current trends to develop original work. Engage with industry professionals and contexts to learn how acting and performance-making techniques can be shaped by professional contexts, audiences, and evolving industry expectations.
Optional placement year
Undertake an optional placement year where you can build a number of key employability skills. Put theory into practice, get a taste for your chosen career and expand upon your professional network.
Core modules
ACT6011
Advanced Acting for Screen and Contemporary Media
Advance your screen acting craft through practical training, rehearsal and analysis. Explore acting techniques, character work, and on-set protocols across genres and formats from film, TV, and emerging media. Analyse screen acting through cultural and technical lenses, engage with industry ethics, and build skills for digital auditions and future creative careers.
ACT6012
Directed Live Production
Immerse yourself in a fully directed hybrid theatre production that fuses live performance with digital innovation. From audition to final show, you'll rehearse as part of a professional ensemble, exploring voice, movement, and character across physical and virtual spaces. Public performances reflect the cutting edge of today’s evolving theatre industry and professional environments.
ACT6013
Professional Portfolio and Placement
Explore diverse careers in the creative and convergent entertainment industries through hands-on experience and industry engagement. This module helps you build networks and gain insight across live, digital, and immersive sectors. You'll engage with a professional context and create a portfolio showcasing your skills, adaptability, and readiness for evolving creative roles.
ADA602
Major Project
Ignite your future in your discipline area. This module empowers you to define your professional identity, shape your final year around your ambitions and produce a professional-quality artefact or product. You will showcase your work to a public audience and can choose to work collaboratively across disciplines to gain more professional-relevant experience building confidence to launch your career.
Final year
Deepen your understanding of performance through research, dramaturgy, and composition, exploring how ideas move from concept to stage or screen. Hone advanced screen acting techniques in collaboration with film students, and develop your artistic voice through your final major project. You'll build an industry-ready portfolio that reflects your unique focus as a performer and creative practitioner.
The modules shown for this course are those currently being studied by our students, or are proposed new modules. Please note that programme structures and individual modules are subject to amendment from time to time as part of the University’s curriculum enrichment programme and in line with changes in the University’s policies and requirements.
Experience
Take centre stage at The House
Train in
The House
– our cutting-edge, on-campus theatre – where you can refine your craft using world-class facilities. As you perform and rehearse in a space that hosts top national and international theatre companies, you gain the chance to build real industry connections and develop future-ready skills for the evolving creative landscape.
The lecturers are equally as excited to be here, just as much as any of the students. They really want you to succeed and go off into the industry and achieve everything that you want to achieve. They foster such a creative environment that it feels like anything that you want to achieve is possible right here.
Performing Arts graduates Amber and Bradley tell us all about how much they enjoyed studying here at °µÍø½âÃÜ.
Meet our experts
Dr John Matthews
Associate Professor in Theatre
Mrs Heather Richmond
Head of Movement
Dr Phil Smith
Honorary Associate Researcher
Amateur Dramatics Society: create, collaborate, perform
The °µÍø½âÃÜ Amateur Dramatics Society (UPAD) are a fun group of people who love to perform and/or write! We hold two showcases in the academic year and every member who auditions will be given a role.
You have a chance to write for these showcases and the committee will choose some of your original works for our performances! We encourage people of all abilities and skills to join, as we provide opportunities for people interested in working backstage and writers as well as actors.
Life in °µÍø½âÃÜ
°µÍø½âÃÜ's maritime history and coastal location have an undeniable influence on life in the city. The walk from our main campus to the seafront is only about one mile, providing loads of opportunity to relax and unwind during your studies. You don’t need to leave the city to get to the coast!
The overall vibe of the city is perfect. You are by the sea so it is still laid back, but you have all the conveniences of living in a city.
Jenna
Current student
Current student
Life in the city
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Explore your accommodation options
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Our large student population, active Students' Union, and abundance of student-led clubs and societies blend to create a busy and vibrant student scene
Careers
Prepare to join the creative industry
Studying BA (Hons) Acting for Screen, Stage, and Media equips you with both the essential performance skills and the future-proof expertise to thrive in a rapidly evolving creative industry.
From mastering acting, physical theatre, and directing, to honing skills in scriptwriting, technical theatre, and stage management, you’ll gain hands-on experience that prepares you for the industry.
Working with cutting-edge technologies and collaborating across platforms, you'll enhance your teamwork, time management, creativity, and attention to detail – all of which are highly sought after by employers.
You'll be ready to adapt, innovate, and apply your talents across diverse areas such as theatre, film, gaming, and immersive media, all while staying ahead of the curve with emerging creative technologies.
Taught by professionals who produce talented, confident and kind actors at the end of the degree.
BA (Hons) Acting graduate Tim Norman is now a stage manager.
*Data is from the Graduate Outcomes Surveys covering the three years of 2019/20 – 2021/22. Graduates were surveyed 15 months after graduating. Data displayed is for UK-domiciled, first degree, full-time graduates who are working, studying or looking for work.
Fees and funding
Tuition fees
Tuition fees for new full-time students starting in 2026-2027 academic year.
Full-time study
£9,790 per year
£9,790 per year
Part-time study
£815 per 10 credits
£815 per 10 credits
Tuition fee price changes
The Government has announced that tuition fees from Academic Year 28/29 onwards will be subject to automatic annual inflationary increases, which we believe will be at a similar rate to the recent annual increases to fees, and may continue to be inflation based. The University may increase annual tuition fees in line with the Student Contract and the maximum tuition fee caps set by the Government from time to time.
We understand that clarity around tuition fees is important when planning your studies and we advise you to monitor this page regularly to stay informed of any updates to your tuition fees.
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fees and costs of studying
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Tuition fees for full-time international students starting in 2026-2027 academic year.
Full-time study
£18,150 per year
£18,150 per year
Optional placement year completed in the UK
£1,955
Optional placement year completed outside the UK
£1,465
Tuition fee price changes
Our fees are reviewed on an annual basis. Fees and the conditions that apply to them are the most up to date but are still subject to change in exceptional circumstances. More information about
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UK Government announcement on tuition fees
The UK Government has announced that a levy on tuition fee income in the region of 6% of an international student’s tuition fees may be introduced. If implemented, the University reserves the right to increase your tuition fees accordingly. The Government has made it clear that it has not officially decided on its stance and it is possible that the eventual levy amount or arrangements may differ from the initial proposal. Therefore, the University reserves the right to adjust tuition fees in accordance with the Government’s final position on this levy.
We understand that clarity around tuition fees is important when planning your studies. Therefore, please note that the tuition fee shown on this page may change as a result of the introduction of a levy. We advise you to monitor this page regularly to stay informed of any updates to your tuition fees.
Additional costs
This course is delivered by the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business. Studying a course in this faculty may incur additional costs relating to placement or equipment requirements.
Fund your studies
As an undergraduate at °µÍø½âÃÜ, there are plenty of funding options available, including tuition fee loans, living cost loans, scholarships, bursaries and support funds.
Supporting students with the cost of living
The cost of living in the UK has risen faster than household income, meaning that most people will have less to spend on essential goods and services. This is an ongoing situation that is likely to affect everyone in some way.
The University provides advice and guidance and has a range of services, facilities and offers to help students with rising everyday costs.
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Entry requirements
Our typical offer
104 UCAS points
104 UCAS points
You may be eligible for a contextual offer
GCSE
All applicants must have GCSE (or equivalent) mathematics and English at grade 4/C or above.
A levels
104 UCAS tariff points.
The final decision is based on the auditions only. Meeting the tariff points does not guarantee entry onto the course. For further information, please contact the institution.
BTEC National Diploma modules
DMM.
If you hold a BTEC qualification it is vital that you provide our Admissions team with details of the exact modules you have studied as part of the BTEC. Without this information we may be unable to process your application quickly and you could experience significant delays in the progress of your application to study with us. Please explicitly state the full list of modules within your qualification at the time of application.
T level
Merit in any subject.
International Baccalaureate
26 points. English and Mathematics accepted within as GCSE equivalent.
Portfolio
Applicants are not required to share a digital portfolio with us; however, doing so may allow us to guarantee you a place or consider applications that do not meet the normal academic requirements.
Extended entry requirements
To be accepted onto a degree course with us, you must have a suitable English language qualification.
Ready to apply?
All applications for undergraduate courses are made through UCAS.com. Please refer to the course facts below when completing your application for this course.
UCAS course code
W413
W413
Institution code
P60
P60
Duration
3 years
(+ optional placement)
Course type
Full-time
Study location
°µÍø½âÃÜ
°µÍø½âÃÜ
Entry requirements
We welcome applicants with international qualifications and we accept a range of qualifications from across the globe.
Our typical offer
104 UCAS points
104 UCAS points
BSearch entry requirements for your country
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English language requirements
To be accepted onto a degree course with us, you must have a suitable English language qualification.
Ready to apply?
As an international student, you can apply for this course through UCAS or an agent in your country.
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UCAS course code
W413
W413
Institution code
P60
P60
Duration
3 years
(+ optional placement)
Course type
Full-time
Study location
°µÍø½âÃÜ
°µÍø½âÃÜ
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