Acting BA (Hons)

What you'll study

Programme overview

Throughout your training, you are guided towards the development of a clear set of individual technical skills, as well as important critical and evaluative skills. You have specific practical skills-based classes in voice, acting, physical acting, singing, dance, movement, stage combat and contextual studies. Your imagination is developed through play, improvisation, games, exercises, scene work, sensory exploration and project rehearsals. Work is shown to the School at the end of each term.

The preparation for screen acting and the film projects explore the unique and individual processes of acting for camera and fully prepare you for successful entry into the contemporary world of recorded media.

Guildford School of Acting (GSA) training draws primarily on the teaching and practices of Stanislavski and Lecoq, as well as the work of Mike Alfreds, Uta Hagen, Sanford Meisner and Michael Chekhov. This ensemble training offers support and stimulation within the rehearsal room, but also encourages a shared language and enables the actor to enter a world that is bigger than their own - one that is created and developed with humility, imagination and generosity, within a company, and then offered to an audience with precision and conviction.

Professional development classes and workshops, with guest speakers and lecturers drawn from the contemporary performing arts industry, ensure currency within your chosen field and enable you to maximise all employment opportunities. A final showcase presentation in a West End theatre, to invited agents and industry guests, completes your transition from student to professional performer.

Professional recognition

Accredited by Drama UK.

Graduate prospects

Guildford School of Acting attracts students from all over the world, many of whom go on to achieve success in theatre, film and television. Our very distinguished alumni include performers such as Brenda Blethyn OBE, Michael Ball, Bill Nighy, Celia Imrie and Justin Fletcher MBE.

Graduate destinations include:

Theatre, West End:

• The Mousetrap, St MartinÕs Theatre
• Six Degrees of Separation, The Old Vic
• The Tempest, The Old Vic
• Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Gielgud Theatre
• Warhorse, New London Theatre
• 39 Steps, Criterion Theatre

Film:

• The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Working Title
• Bend it Like Beckham, BILB Productions
• Les Misérables, Working Title
• 28 Days Later, 20th Century Fox

Television:

• The Railway Children, ITV
• The Royal, ITV
• In the Line of Beauty, BBC
• Holby City, BBC
• Spooks, BBC
• Ashes to Ashes, BBC
• Waking the Dead, BBC
• Murphy's Law, Tiger Aspect Productions

• Come to an Open Day
• Visit the GSA website

Come to one of our Open Days, when you can tour the campus, speak to students and academic staff, see our student accommodation and ask as many questions as you like.