Acting for Stage and Screen

Acting for stage and screen demands a performer who is equally fluent in two distinct performance environments, each with its own conventions, technical requirements, and relationship to the audience. Stage acting relies on projection, physicality, and the energy of live presence; screen acting demands restraint, naturalism, and the ability to perform to a camera in fragments rather than full scenes. A programme that trains you across both equips you with a genuine professional versatility that the contemporary creative industries increasingly expect.

At Regent's University London, this three-year full-time programme has been designed alongside industry experts to develop you as a multi-skilled performer capable of pursuing a career across theatre, film, and television. You will build foundational acting skills in voice, movement, character analysis, and text work, while also developing the specific techniques that screen performance demands, including working with cameras, understanding the relationship between performance and editing, and producing consistent results across multiple takes. The programme includes a year abroad, which gives you the opportunity to study performance in a different cultural and professional context, broadening your understanding of how acting is trained and practised internationally.

Being based in London places you at the heart of the UK's creative industries, with access to professional theatres, film studios, and a large community of practitioners.

The degree is studied full time over three years, and the programme is part of a wider creative community at Regent's that includes filmmakers and screenwriters, enabling genuine cross-disciplinary collaboration.

Graduates pursue careers as actors in theatre, film, and television, as well as in applied and community theatre, casting, production, teaching, and arts administration. Further study options include postgraduate training programmes and specialist actor training at drama schools.