MFA Acting for Stage and Screen
24 monthsProgramme duration
16,245 GBPTuition Fee/year
30 Jun, 2026Application Deadline
SepStarting Month
Programme overview
Main Subject
Performing Arts
Degree
MFA
Study Level
Masters
Study Mode
On Campus
Our 2-year MFA is a unique vocational training that offers you a full run in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival at the end of your first year and extensive screen acting work and showreel opportunities in your second year.
You will be training within a vibrant, interdisciplinary postgraduate community of film and theatre directors as well as screenwriters and playwrights.
Classes are delivered by staff with extensive industry experience and our programme is respected within the profession. Our graduates have been featured on Netflix, Starz, BBC, Amazon Prime, Channel 4, and ITV, as well as working at the Royal National Theatre, The Traverse, the Lyceum Theatre, Dundee Rep, Bard in the Botanics, London Regent’s Park Open Air theatre, and have been nominated for Olivier and Ian Charlson Awards.
The MFA Acting for Stage & Screen is a unique 2-year degree that will reflect the challenge for most working actors today, which is to work confidently both in stage and screen acting. This is a practice-based course that prepares you for an industry in which creative problem solving, advanced practical skills, business acumen, team-working and self-generated work are critical. We hope to train students who will graduate with all these abilities and can thrive as freelance performing artists across a range of opportunities within the creative arts industries.
Your first year focuses on the foundational skills of stage and screen acting. In the final two trimesters you will work with MA Film directors and screenwriters on short films that will have the opportunity to be entered into festivals around the world. You will also have the chance to work with professional film directors.
In the second year, you will build on the foundations laid in the first, continuing with skills-based classes. Alongside these, you will develop and refine a production that will be performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival - marking both the culmination of your training and your transition into the professional world.
You will be training within a vibrant, interdisciplinary postgraduate community of film and theatre directors as well as screenwriters and playwrights.
Classes are delivered by staff with extensive industry experience and our programme is respected within the profession. Our graduates have been featured on Netflix, Starz, BBC, Amazon Prime, Channel 4, and ITV, as well as working at the Royal National Theatre, The Traverse, the Lyceum Theatre, Dundee Rep, Bard in the Botanics, London Regent’s Park Open Air theatre, and have been nominated for Olivier and Ian Charlson Awards.
The MFA Acting for Stage & Screen is a unique 2-year degree that will reflect the challenge for most working actors today, which is to work confidently both in stage and screen acting. This is a practice-based course that prepares you for an industry in which creative problem solving, advanced practical skills, business acumen, team-working and self-generated work are critical. We hope to train students who will graduate with all these abilities and can thrive as freelance performing artists across a range of opportunities within the creative arts industries.
Your first year focuses on the foundational skills of stage and screen acting. In the final two trimesters you will work with MA Film directors and screenwriters on short films that will have the opportunity to be entered into festivals around the world. You will also have the chance to work with professional film directors.
In the second year, you will build on the foundations laid in the first, continuing with skills-based classes. Alongside these, you will develop and refine a production that will be performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival - marking both the culmination of your training and your transition into the professional world.
Programme overview
Main Subject
Performing Arts
Degree
MFA
Study Level
Masters
Study Mode
On Campus
Our 2-year MFA is a unique vocational training that offers you a full run in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival at the end of your first year and extensive screen acting work and showreel opportunities in your second year.
You will be training within a vibrant, interdisciplinary postgraduate community of film and theatre directors as well as screenwriters and playwrights.
Classes are delivered by staff with extensive industry experience and our programme is respected within the profession. Our graduates have been featured on Netflix, Starz, BBC, Amazon Prime, Channel 4, and ITV, as well as working at the Royal National Theatre, The Traverse, the Lyceum Theatre, Dundee Rep, Bard in the Botanics, London Regent’s Park Open Air theatre, and have been nominated for Olivier and Ian Charlson Awards.
The MFA Acting for Stage & Screen is a unique 2-year degree that will reflect the challenge for most working actors today, which is to work confidently both in stage and screen acting. This is a practice-based course that prepares you for an industry in which creative problem solving, advanced practical skills, business acumen, team-working and self-generated work are critical. We hope to train students who will graduate with all these abilities and can thrive as freelance performing artists across a range of opportunities within the creative arts industries.
Your first year focuses on the foundational skills of stage and screen acting. In the final two trimesters you will work with MA Film directors and screenwriters on short films that will have the opportunity to be entered into festivals around the world. You will also have the chance to work with professional film directors.
In the second year, you will build on the foundations laid in the first, continuing with skills-based classes. Alongside these, you will develop and refine a production that will be performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival - marking both the culmination of your training and your transition into the professional world.
You will be training within a vibrant, interdisciplinary postgraduate community of film and theatre directors as well as screenwriters and playwrights.
Classes are delivered by staff with extensive industry experience and our programme is respected within the profession. Our graduates have been featured on Netflix, Starz, BBC, Amazon Prime, Channel 4, and ITV, as well as working at the Royal National Theatre, The Traverse, the Lyceum Theatre, Dundee Rep, Bard in the Botanics, London Regent’s Park Open Air theatre, and have been nominated for Olivier and Ian Charlson Awards.
The MFA Acting for Stage & Screen is a unique 2-year degree that will reflect the challenge for most working actors today, which is to work confidently both in stage and screen acting. This is a practice-based course that prepares you for an industry in which creative problem solving, advanced practical skills, business acumen, team-working and self-generated work are critical. We hope to train students who will graduate with all these abilities and can thrive as freelance performing artists across a range of opportunities within the creative arts industries.
Your first year focuses on the foundational skills of stage and screen acting. In the final two trimesters you will work with MA Film directors and screenwriters on short films that will have the opportunity to be entered into festivals around the world. You will also have the chance to work with professional film directors.
In the second year, you will build on the foundations laid in the first, continuing with skills-based classes. Alongside these, you will develop and refine a production that will be performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival - marking both the culmination of your training and your transition into the professional world.
Admission Requirements
4+
56+
6+
2.7+
169+
30 Jun 2026
2 Years
Sep
Tuition fees
Domestic
5,880 GBP
International
16,245 GBP
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