Acting | BA (Hons) Degree

A dynamic and exciting course combining strong technical training, creative opportunities and industry experience. You will have the opportunity to train in acting and explore your own artistic practice.

The BA in Acting allows you to develop acting techniques through a series of different approaches to ensure that you are most employable and well placed to critique and contribute to the cultural landscape. The training focuses on different aspects of acting; the actor performer, the actor-director, the actor-activist, the actor-producer, the actor on film.

There are opportunities to collaborate with our theatre design, make up, props, technical and music students. In the second and third-year students will have the opportunity to specialise in writing, directing, producing, film, transmedia or comedy and design their own projects.

You will benefit from a variety of visiting practitioners and specialised workshops throughout the three years. This academic year we have had over 15 different practitioners run projects and workshops, including an audition workshop with David Gyasi.

Key features

• Live performances and commissions throughout your training.
• Collaboration with our theatre design and technical theatre students
• Professional-standard theatre on campus
• Fringe performances, residencies and scratch nights
• Creative courses collaborate to mirror industry practice.
• Opportunities specialise in the second and third years in writing, directing, producing, film, transmedia or comedy

Check out our MET Fest page to hear from our current students, watch showreels, trailers and more.

You will participate in a varied programme of movement, text, voice and technique classes to hone your training. You will explore how to stage text, create your own original work for various audiences, and work with new and emerging technologies and environments. Alongside the training, there are opportunities to shape your own path in live and recorded performance and explore different ways to do work and forge a creative career. Together with dedicated tutors and visiting practitioners and companies, you will train in various genres and techniques and take part in an exciting number of projects and shows within the college professional theatre and beyond.

You'll take part in text-based and devised shows working alongside the other hair and makeup pathways, production, technical theatre, costume and set design, prop making musical theatre, and dance. A demanding, creative and rich environment in which you can train as an actor and develop as a self-sufficient practitioner.

Acting alumni have gone on to film and TV, theatre, postgraduate study, producing, directing, teaching. 

Validated by University of the Arts London (UAL)

This programme is validated by the University of the Arts London (UAL). UAL is a leading education provider in the creative arts, ranked second in the world for art and design (QS World University Rankings by Subject 2022). They oversee the standards and quality of our curriculum, which enriches your overall learning experience.

See the full list of our creative arts degrees.