Directing

Goldsmiths, University of London
Postgraduate MA Full-time 1 Year Drama

About this course

Why study MA Directing at Goldsmiths

This programme trains directors who are highly creative, critically and socially engaged, and skilled to work in a range of performance styles and practices. Develop your own creative and ethical working methods, and unique style, as a director.

  • Goldsmiths is famous for producing theatre practitioners who have agency and critical capacity that makes them fit for work in existing theatre, screen and arts industries as well as being able to create, innovate, and initiate change in their own right as artists.

  • MA Directing provides rigorous, diverse and socially aware director training for application in theatre and the arts sector in a 21st-century global context.

  • This programme offers imaginative, technical and intellectual training across a range of methods, approaches and related practitioner and critical discourses for use in classical, contemporary, devised, site specific, and new theatre writing productions.

  • You will receive an introduction to working in screen, audio and digital contexts and learn about performance theories, practices and methodologies in relation to your own performance practice and research as a director.

  • You'll have professional development learning opportunities and reflexive practice embedded through all three terms of the programme and a wide range of directors will visit to lecture and teach over the year, including alumni.

  • You will be introduced to a range of directorial methods, plays and styles of theatre from different cultures and periods in history.
  • Career Prospects

    Graduates from this course typically go into the following occupations:

    2317 Teachers of English as a foreign language
    2319 Teaching professionals
    3416 Arts officers, producers and directors
    3414 Dancers and choreographers
    3413 Actors, entertainers and presenters
    2324 Early education and childcare services managers

    Course Details

    Qualification
    MA
    Study Mode
    Full-time
    Duration
    1 Year
    Start Date
    2025
    Academic Year
    2025
    Campus / Location
    London
    Scheme
    Postgraduate
    Subjects
    Drama