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Description

  • Type

    Master

  • Location

    London

  • Duration

    2 Years

MA Dramatic Writing offers training and support for creative adventure and personal development. Since the course started, it has regularly engaged with industry professionals and visiting experts who work across a range of forms and contexts for dramatic writing. The course is focused on the craft and technical aspects of dramatic writing and seeks to develop the unique vision and voice of each individual student.MA Dramatic Writing explores script writing and dramatic form with relevance across theatre, radio, film, television and digital media. Our aim is to help the next generation of writing talent and equip students with the confidence and self-awareness they will need to survive and thrive in industry. This course was revalidated in 2016/17.This course is part of the Drama and Performance Programme.Great reasons to applyTraining in diverse forms of Dramatic Writing – theatre, film, television, radio and digital media - involving tutors and professionals who are active in the industry and in practiceLinks to theatres, television, radio and digital media organisations based in London, regionally and internationallyA dedicated, world-leading art and design educational institution that is rich in creative and cultural opportunityA focus on your own portfolio of projects allowing you to build a personal profileStudents emerge fully equipped to pursue successful and sustainable careers as writers, and in related careers.Open daysThe next round of open days will take place between February to May 2018. Please check back here in January 2018 to book a place online.Scholarships, awards and fundingJane Rapley ScholarshipsVice-Chancellor’s Scholarships:Home/EU | InternationalPostgraduate loans of up to £10,000 are now available for eligible UK and EU students. A full list of eligibility criteria and information on applying can be found on the postgraduate loans webpage .Dramatic Writing...

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Location

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London
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1 Granary Square

Start date

On request

About this course

Entry requirementsWe are looking for applicants with a background or demonstrable interest in scriptwriting, development or production across theatre, film, television, radio and digital media. It particularly suits individuals interested in narrative art forms, it may also attract those involved in broader performance-related practices.Appropriate related backgrounds include script development and dramaturgy, producing, directing, acting, creative writing .Although we treat all work with the greatest care and respect, the college cannot accept responsibility for any loss or...

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Course programme

Course detail

All applicants considered for September 2017 entry will be applying for the newly revalidated version of the course.

MA Dramatic Writing aspires to be at the forefront of dramatic writing training in the UK.

We achieve this by:

  • The best possible training in craft
  • Offering projects and partnerships with industry professionals
  • Collaborations with other Drama Centre courses, in acting, directing, design and animation.

The course brings together industry professonials and tutors who have led on the training of Dramatic Writing in the UK and offers collaborations and partnerships, offering students a chance to build up connections and experience and to explore and be a part of new ideas developing in the dramatic writing industry.

The course aims to cover all of the skills you will need to pursue a successful and sustainable career as a writer.

In Unit One, students learn craft in diverse forms of dramatic writing (theatre, television, film, radio and digital media) and take part in industry projects.

In Unit Two, you will have the opportunity to pursue your own portfolio of work, exploring and developing your voice and vision as a writer and working in a way which replicates working practices in the industry.

Via this structure, our aim is to provide students with the skills, experience, connections, credits and portfolio of work they need to go on to pursue successful and sustainable careers as writers.

The course is also dedicated to exploring the best possible training of dramatic writers in the UK and staff and changing commissions and projects offer an exciting opportunity to work with the professionals and on the projects who are currently leading the way in the industry.

Our aim is for our graduates to go on to work in and become leaders and/or a part of the dramatic writing industry both in London, regionally and internationally.

Course dates

Autumn term
Monday 2 October 2017 – Friday 8 December 2017
Spring term
Monday 8 January 2018 – Friday 16 March 2018
Summer term
Monday 16 April 2018 – Friday 22 June 2018

Related content

  • Visit the MA Dramatic Writing blog

Course structure

  • The Course is of 60 weeks in duration, arranged across two academic years that consist of 6 terms of 10 weeks.
  • MADW is credit rated at 180 credits and is comprised of two units: Unit One (60 credits) for the first 20 weeks of the Course followed by Unit two (120 credits) that runs for the remaining 40 weeks.
  • Both units must be passed in order to achieve the MA, but the classification of the award of MA derives from your mark for Unit two only.

Unit One: Skills and practice

This Unit examines the techniques, craft, issues and debates surrounding the theory and practice of dramatic writing, and dramatic storytelling. It covers different forms of Dramatic Writing – theatre, TV, film, radio, and digital media to empower the writer to engage meaningfully with the central, symbiotic relationship between character, action and story

Unit Two: Voice and vision

This unit progresses the writer’s personal project and portfolio pathway and engages with essential questions surrounding voice and identity, vision and ambitions. The focus is developed and agreed in consultation with lecturers and wherever possible professional mentoring. Students will develop their personal portfolio alongside continuing team and group collaboration in which work can be tried, tested, explored and reworked. Alongside, and integral to both will remain the ongoing exploration and conversation surrounding the principles of story, voice and craft. Unit two spans years one and two, and is the start of the flexible, tailored part of the course.

Unit Three: Final portfolio

This Unit constitutes an intensive period of study in which students will be able to finish developing, nurturing, exploring and realising not simply their craft, skills and practice, but their voice as a writer. Unit three finishes exploring what it means to forge and have a career as a dramatic writer.

Programme specification: MA Dramatic Writing (PDF 60kb)

Industry collaborations and projects

MA Dramatic Writing is unique in the extent to which it works with industry partners and collaborators.

Recent projects include:

  • The Year of Experimentation
  • The British Library
  • Steve Winter and Housed
  • Fin Kennedy and In Battalions
  • BBC Writersroom Masterclasses
  • BBC TV Drama Writers Festival
  • The Last Hours of Laura K
  • Tonic Theatre
  • Tamasha Theatre Company
  • ENO

Students will pursue similar industry collaborations and projects each year, building up a portfolio of contacts and experience in the industry, in how the industry works and in new and leading ideas taking place in London, regionally and internationally

Facilities

  • Studio Theatre

    Find out more about our Studio Theatre.

Staff

Acting Course Leader: Tony Clarke

Industry professionals and tutors who have taught on the course include:

Philip Shelley – who runs the Channel Four screenwriting course
Ola Animashawun – who founded the Royal Court Theatre’s Young Writers Programme
John Yorke – creator of the BBC Writers Academy and the former Controller of BBC Drama Production and Head of Drama at Channel Four
David Edgar – who created the UK’s first MA in Playwriting
Anthony Clark - Director and writer and Course Leader, MA Directing at Drama Centre London
Stephen Jeffreys – Literary Associate at the Royal Court Theatre for eleven years and creator of Masterclasses which have led the way in Playwriting teaching in the UK
Caroline Jester – former Dramaturg at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre and creator of REPwrite, the theatre’s new online dramatic writing programme.
Fin Kennedy – winner of the first Fringe First ever awarded for a schools production and co-Artistic Director of Tamasha Theatre Company
Lucy Kerbel – Director of Tonic Theatre and the creator of Advance and Platform
Kate Rowland – founder of BBC Writersroom and the former Creative Director of New Writing at the BBC
Steve Winter – Executive Director of the Kevin Spacey Foundation and the former Director of the Old Vic New Voices programme and co-creator of the Old Vic New Voices 24 Hour Plays and TS Eliot US/UK Exchange

MA Dramatic Writing

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