Throughout the course you will have contact with, and feedback from, people working in the industry including Casting Directors, Agents and graduates.
Directors who have recently worked with students in their final term include:
- Paul Hart, Artistic Director, Watermill Theatre Newbury
- Alice Malin, Associate Director, ATC
- Polina Kalinina
- Chelsea Walker, winner of Royal Theatrical Support Trust Director Award 2017
Writers who have been commissioned to write for students in their final year include:
- Jodi Gray
- Vicky Jones
- Matt Parvin
- Caitlin Shannon
- Phoebe Waller-Bridge
As a School we make no distinction between the graduates of our One and Three Year courses. They all achieve at the highest level. In recent years graduates of the One Year Course have secured their first acting jobs with employers such as BBC Television, ITV and BBC Radio and on stage for The National Theatre, Theatre Royal Haymarket, English Touring Theatre, Royal Court, Nuffield Southampton Theatres, Chichester Festival Theatre, Theatre Centre, Barbican Centre, Bristol Old Vic, Glasgow Citizens Theatre and Eastern Angles.
Graduates from the One Year Acting Course include:
Ritu Arya in Genesis Inc at Hampstead Theatre
Rhys Bevan in BBC Radio 4’s The Archers
Victoria Blunt in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Watermill Newbury
Babou Ceesay in AMC’s Into the Badlands
Margaret Clunie in ITV’s Victoria
Paul Dodds Romeo and Juliet at the RSC
Claire Foy in The Girl in the Spider’s Web
Tom Gibbons in BBC Radio 4’s The Archers
Emily Hughes in Liverpool Everyman repertory company
Louise Marwood as Chrissie White in ITV1’s Emmerdale
Aoibheann McCann in Assassins at The Gate Theatre Dublin
Jude Owusu as Tamberlaine in RSC’s Tamberlaine
Gary Pillai in the national tour of The Kite Runner
Tanya Reynolds in Sky’s Delicious
Kiran Sonia Sawar in Sky’s Black Mirror
Qualification
This course is validated by Trinity College London as degree equivalent, Level 5 in the Government’s National Qualification Framework. Equity membership is awarded to all students who complete this course.
