Develop as a performing artist working towards a career as an actor and creative practitioner ready to enter the worlds of stage, film, television, radio, and digital media.

BA (Hons) Acting at Norwich University of the Arts offers an unparalleled creative environment for the actor in the United Kingdom. Spotlight graduate membership from the first term of the final year will place you in the best position to promote yourself to the industry as you complete your training.

As an actor at Norwich, you will not only be expertly trained as a performance artist who serves to represent the human condition within the roles you play, but also as an individual practitioner able to create your own work across a myriad of artistic disciplines and media.

For BA (Hons) Acting we are not only concerned with ‘how’ to act but we also question what acting as a discipline ‘does’ and explore new possibilities for the craft as we engage across various media, styles and forms.

Personal toolkit of skills

Joining the BA (Hons) Acting course enables you to perform in a variety of situations and be equipped to go into many areas of film, television, radio and digital media, and work across several platforms.

You will become an instigator and facilitator of future trends and developments in your field. Our course has been designed to build on your existing skills, not just in acting, but also to acquire transferable skills of research, critical thinking and independent study.

As you explore embodied live performance you will be encouraged to experiment with different live and recorded settings and gain skills across various mediated technologies through sound and camera work.

Master performance techniques

You will graduate with your own personal toolkit of skills, learned as part of a hybrid delivery — in the studio and digitally through diverse acting training methods such as those of Batson, Chekhov, Hagen, Meisner and Stanislavsky and the voice training practices of Berry, Bryon, Linklater and Rodenberg.  

The embodied performance training at Norwich integrates voice, movement and acting, examining practices that are designed to aid you to access your full emotional and creative instrument.

Alongside this intensive training, you will be encouraged to explore and experiment across different live and recorded contexts while gaining skills across various mediated technologies through sound and camera work.

You will collaborate with our other screen-based courses in film, animation, visual effects and games while you develop your own links with industry in line with your chosen career trajectory.

Career preparation 

Professional development is an important aspect of all courses at Norwich and is taught throughout your studies. By your final year, your professional preparation will be tailored to your preferred career path. For Acting this will include: 

• A Spotlight Graduate membership
• Headshots 
• CV writing 
• Audition and interview skills 
• Website development 
• Grant writing skills 
• Networking 
• Showreel 

In the first term of your final year you will be eligible for Graduate Spotlight membership. This extra support will further your knowledge and provide extra opportunities to help you take your first steps into the industry after university. It’s a stamp of professionalism that puts you in the best position to promote yourself to the industry as you complete your time with us.

As a trained actor graduating from this rich environment, you will be well placed to not only get work as an actor within more conventional contexts such as stage, film and TV, but you will also be equipped to create new work innovating performance practice(s) at the edges of the specialism.  

The transferable skills and stage craft you will acquire will open a range of career opportunities within the acting profession and wider industry, where communication skills are in high demand.

Course information

All courses run as a blend of on-campus and digital teaching and learning, and follow current UK government safety advice. Applicants and students will be notified directly if any changes need to be made.