12 monthsProgramme duration
SepStarting Month
Programme overview
Main Subject
English Language and Literature
Degree
MSc
Study Level
Masters
Study Mode
On Campus
Led by award-winning playwright, director and dramaturge Nicola McCartney, our MSc in Playwriting offers a high level of contact with the theatre industry. It will appeal to emerging playwrights, directors, dramaturges, performance artists and critics.
The programme focuses not only on the craft of writing for performance, but also on how a script plays out in real space and time, and in front of an audience.
You will be taught through a dynamic combination of seminars, workshops, one-to-one supervision and professional masterclasses by some of Europe’s leading playwrights and theatre artists.
Previous collaborators include world famous and award-winning practitioners such as:
- Cora Bissett
- Sir Michael Boyd
- Gregory Burke
- Kai Fischer
- Tanika Gupta
- Philip Howard
- Rosie Kellagher
- Lucy Kirkwood
- Matthew Lenton
- Linda McLean
- Orla O'Loughlin
- Adura Onashile
- Robin Soanes
- John Tiffany
Programme overview
Main Subject
English Language and Literature
Degree
MSc
Study Level
Masters
Study Mode
On Campus
Led by award-winning playwright, director and dramaturge Nicola McCartney, our MSc in Playwriting offers a high level of contact with the theatre industry. It will appeal to emerging playwrights, directors, dramaturges, performance artists and critics.
The programme focuses not only on the craft of writing for performance, but also on how a script plays out in real space and time, and in front of an audience.
You will be taught through a dynamic combination of seminars, workshops, one-to-one supervision and professional masterclasses by some of Europe’s leading playwrights and theatre artists.
Previous collaborators include world famous and award-winning practitioners such as:
- Cora Bissett
- Sir Michael Boyd
- Gregory Burke
- Kai Fischer
- Tanika Gupta
- Philip Howard
- Rosie Kellagher
- Lucy Kirkwood
- Matthew Lenton
- Linda McLean
- Orla O'Loughlin
- Adura Onashile
- Robin Soanes
- John Tiffany
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