Scriptwriting MA

Develop your scriptwriting to the highest level and tailor your work to different types of media on this practical and collaborative course.
• Join a lively, creative community and collaborate with your peers across various disciplines, from acting to directing and filmmaking.



• Taught by leading industry professionals – working practitioners who love what they do.



• Develop skills that prepare you for a professional life in the industry.



Take your writing to the highest level, and develop clear strategies for professional success. With a combination of expert guidance and peer-group workshopping, you’ll develop your unique voice as you learn to meet the demands of a highly competitive industry. The course will help you to become a more adept scriptwriter, able to work across theatre, radio, film, and television. Along with a comprehensive training in key writing skills, you’ll develop your critical thinking, creative dexterity, and coherent strategies for professional progress.

With access to campus resources such as professional recording equipment and television studios, you’ll collaborate with acting, directing and film-making students to make films, record audio drama, and develop plays for theatre. Creative collaboration forms the heart of the Scriptwriting course, as you develop an understanding of live presentation, of idea as word, and of the direct relationship, in any given medium, between writer and audience.