MSc Playwriting

Our MA Playwriting course is an intensive one-year programme designed to provide a genuine gateway into a writing career in the theatre and performance industries.

Over the course of the year, you will work with leading industry practitioners to develop your playwriting, pitching and dramaturgical skills. You will learn about and develop skills in writing for performance across a diverse range of contexts, genres and themes.

By the end of the course, you will have developed at least one full-length stage play, a collection of one-act dramas, a full-length play for a festival context and at least one full-length play for a setting outside of a theatre (for example, a piece of experimental performance, immersive performance, forum theatre, community drama, documentary theatre, street theatre, and/or drama for an educational setting).