Bachelor of Fine Arts (Drama)

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You love drama. You love everything about it. You love performing it and you love making it—writing, directing, organising and collaborating. You know drama has the capacity to change people’s lives because it has changed yours. Now you want to have the skills, knowledge and connections to create, present, promote and teach—to have the chance of a professional life with people who are as passionate as you to share the excitement of live performance.
Why choose this course?

If you are interested in exploring practical careers in directing, designing, teaching, devising, creative producing and administration, or performing in a range of experimental theatre forms, then this course is for you. The course offers flexibility and breadth, combining creative experiences in performance making with highly relevant theoretical studies that will connect you with contemporary performance both nationally and globally.
You will be taught by a range of industry professionals whose expertise and passion will inspire and guide you, and who in future years may become your mentors and colleagues. You will find yourself collaborating with talented students, and the creative relationships you develop will establish the professional networks you will be drawing on throughout your career.
Upon entering this course, you will be a performance maker from week one. From second year you will take a range of elective subjects to build skills in complementary areas—choosing from other disciplines in the Creative Industries Faculty which may include film, TV and new media, creative writing, visual arts, music and more.
Previous graduates have had a dynamic impact on the development of the Australian creative industries sector, and our most recent graduates are at the heart of the exciting growth in the independent theatre sector in Australia.

Career outcomes

As a multiskilled graduate you will seek to complement your artistic career with paid employment in related...