Acting [with Placement year] BA (Hons)

<strong>Reach your potential on this conservatoire-style course designed to build your creative skills including live performance, screen acting and motion capture.</strong><br/><br/>Grow into a confident and versatile performer. Focus on fundamental acting skills, voice and movement, screen acting, and how to rehearse for a full production.<br/><br/>Work with external directors, experiment with Physical Theatre, learn about new performance technologies, and extend your experience with screen acting and classical text.<br/><br/>In your final year, our Immersive Performance module and Showcase will allow you to demonstrate your high-level skills in acting.<br/><br/>Train in professional-standard facilities including our professional 260 seater Mumford Theatre.<br/><br/>Gain experience with new technologies and alternative platforms to become a dynamic and responsive actor.<br/><br/>Develop your technical and production skills in specialist facilities for recorded and live performance.<br/><br/>Graduate with a professional CV, headshots and showreel.<br/><br/>Collaborate with other creative students, experienced tutors, community partners and industry professionals.<br/><br/>Get involved with Cambridges many acting troupes and events.<br/><br/><strong>Careers</strong><br/><br/>Throughout your degree, you’ll develop creativity and technical competence in a range of acting media, including both live and recorded performance.<br/><br/>You’ll develop transferable skills such as research, teamwork, communication, problem solving, and resourcefulness – invaluable in all areas of the creative industries as well as other sectors.<br/><br/>You’ll also have opportunities to take part in collaborative projects, like our HMS Belfast project with Imperial War Museums to commemorate D-Day, and 60 Second Shakespeare with the Globe theatre, London.<br/><br/>By the time you graduate, you’ll have built up a professional portfolio of your acting projects, which will act as an enhanced CV for you to present to agents, employers and clients – whether you want to act in live performance, on screen, or even be a voice or motion-capture artist for games and other new media.<br/><br/><strong>Teaching</strong><br/><br/>In your first year, you’ll be introduced to effective working methodologies in both performance and production, producing a studio-based collaborative live performance, developing core physical and vocal skills and being introduced to acting for the camera.<br/><br/>In your second year, you’ll work with a professional theatre director as a member of a production company, creating a theatre piece for live performance.<br/><br/>Finally, our Immersive Performance module, Showcase and Major Project will allow you to demonstrate your high-level skills in acting and focus specifically on your employability.

At ARU, you’ll be supported from day one with wellbeing services, money advice and careers guidance to help you through university and beyond. <br/><br/>Their courses are built around real-world experience and the skills employers value. ARU are proud to be in the top 20% of UK universities for teaching quality (TEF 2023), and ranked #1 in the East of England for graduates in professional jobs (Graduate Outcomes Survey 2024). You'll have access to fantastic facilities thanks to £95m of investment - think SuperLabs, TV studios, law courts, mock hospital wards and more. <br/><br/>Wherever you're heading, ARU will help you get there.