Drama and Music Production
Drama and music production together explore two of the most powerful forms of live and recorded artistic expression. Drama connects you to centuries of theatrical tradition while developing your capacity to create, perform, and critically interpret work in contemporary contexts. Music production brings you inside the technical and creative processes behind recorded sound, from composition and arrangement through to engineering, mixing, and the business of getting music made and heard.
At their best, the two disciplines share a preoccupation with storytelling, timing, collaboration, and the relationship between performer and audience.
At Liverpool Hope University this four-year full-time programme includes a foundation year, giving you a thorough grounding in both disciplines before you enter the main degree. Liverpool is a particularly fitting location for this kind of study, with a richly documented cultural and musical history and a thriving creative scene that connects the university to working practitioners. You will explore the origins and history of drama alongside practical performance and devised work, and develop production skills across the full range of music-making contexts.
The course includes a sandwich placement year, a year abroad, and a work placement component, meaning you will have structured opportunities to build professional experience in the creative industries before you graduate. The typical entry tariff of 104 points reflects the broad entry base for a creatively driven programme of this kind.
You will develop creative confidence alongside technical craft, learning to collaborate in teams, to give and receive critical feedback, and to approach your own practice with both ambition and rigour.
Graduates pursue careers in music production, live event and theatre production, stage management, arts administration, sound engineering, teaching, community arts, and the wider creative industries. Postgraduate routes include specialist music technology, theatre directing, creative arts practice, or arts management programmes.