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Acting BA (Hons)

Develop the creative, technical, and professional skills required to become a successful actor for stage, screen, and recorded media.

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Key course information

Course Duration

Course Options

Diploma Year

Typical Offer

104-120 UCAS Tariff Points

How to Apply

Request a prospectus

Annual Fees

Home (full-time) £10,050

Overseas (full-time) £28,500

UCAS code

W410 (3 Year)

Institution code: N39

Course Start

September 2027

Two creative specialists. One future-defining partnership.

Students starting an undergraduate degree at Norwich University of the Arts from September 2027 will graduate with a degree jointly awarded by Norwich and the Royal College of Art. Find out more about the partnership.

Our BA Acting course provides a vibrant, creative and supportive space for actors in training who want to become confident, innovative artists. Whether you dream of a career in theatre, screen, or recorded media, our expert teachers, industry professionals and researchers will help you develop the essential skills to succeed. From practical techniques to critical insights, we’ll support you every step of the way as you shape your future in the arts.

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Our partnership with the Royal College of Art

From September 2027, we’re offering our students at Norwich the world’s only current opportunity to study for an undergraduate degree that’s jointly awarded by Norwich University of the Arts and the Royal College of Art (RCA).

For 12 consecutive years, the RCA has been ranked as the world’s number one art and design university, by the respected QS ranking. A transformative and equitable space for free-thinking and collaboration, it’s the world’s largest community of postgraduate-only art and design students.

Every year RCA alumni are recognised as leaders in their disciplines, shaping our culture and world.

Explore the partnership

Spotlight partnership

Spotlight is a casting platform in the UK that connects actors, agents, and casting directors. It's used by production companies, broadcasters, and advertising agencies. Our partnership with Spotlight offers access to the largest online casting resource in the UK, as well as a wealth of support, content and events specifically tailored towards graduate actors.

Why study with us

Discover your creative potential and express your unique worldview in a supportive environment.

Integrate practical training in voice, movement and acting classes to explore a wide range of practices and techniques, guided by expert staff and industry professionals.

Master technology for sound and camera work, gaining hands-on skills that will keep you ahead of the curve in today’s industry.

Our course is unique in facilitating cross-disciplinary skills that will give you an edge in the industry. You will collaborate with our screen-based courses in film, animation, visual effects and games, as well as fashion and fine arts.

At the end of the course, you will be industry-ready and confident in auditions, interviews, self-taping, and networking. Your graduate package will include headshots, website, voice and showreels, and a bespoke career plan.

Course Details

Core Units

Creative Learning (40 credits)

This introductory unit launches your journey into the professional world of acting and performance. Through a combination of practical workshops, seminars and independent study, you will delve into the key techniques and guiding principles of the acting process: voice, movement, play, concentration, embodied awareness, imagination and active listening. Practical sessions exploring improvisation, scene study, rehearsals and presentations, combined with investigative approaches to research and critical reflection, will equip you with the essential tools for approaching text, making creative choices, developing your own personal practice and producing a body of creative work.

40 credits

Explore and Experiment (80 credits)

This unit expands and develops core acting skills and understanding of performance theory. A focus on developing and embodying character in specific environments draws on various acting approaches integrating text analysis, animal work, points of centre, point of lead, sensory work, and is informed by continuous critical reflection on your learning. Together, these elements prepare you for observing, exploring, researching and creating a distinct physical and vocal characterisation. The unit also introduces you to the devising process. Exploring themes that move you and experimenting with aspects of collaborative creation, lead to an understanding of how to develop and structure your own creative voice.

80 credits

Core Projects

Wayfinding Week

The first week of each academic year is called Wayfinding week. It’s an opportunity get your bearings, establish new connections and, after your first year at Norwich, re-establish old ones. Your course team will talk you through the year ahead and explain the expectations for the year. We’ll help you navigate new encounters and identify areas to focus on as you progress through your course.

Make it Manifest(o)

An important element of Wayfinding Week is taking part in our annual ‘Make it Manifest(o)’ project. Your course team will introduce the project in which we’ll ask you to consider your hopes and vision of the year ahead at Norwich and work with students in other year groups to bring your ideas to life. The project culminates in a celebratory display of work across the campus. The project will help you to develop your critical creativity through different approaches, concepts, and mediums. You’ll encounter diverse perspectives and build friendships and networks within our university community.

Interchange Week

Interchange weeks are opportunities to step away from your disciplinary studies and engage in projects, workshops, visits and talks that extend your knowledge and understanding of the world. Whether you learn a new skill or take part in a global challenge project with students from other courses, you will come away with new insights to take back to your course. Interchange is part of the schedule for all Norwich students with sessions held across and beyond the campus led by university staff, visiting lecturers and students.

Global Contexts (80 credits)

This unit interrogates different approaches to acting and performance, strengthening your knowledge and understanding of a range of acting techniques across contemporary live and digital contexts. Engaging in practical acting workshops and film work, including camerawork, editing, and sound, will refine your interpretive skills, technical abilities and enhance your creative choices. Collaborative projects, alongside critical analysis, encourage you to develop a breadth and depth of experimentation around how acting and performance can address broader social and global concerns. You will gain a heightened awareness of ethical considerations in performance and explore what acting can do within wider contemporary contexts.

Directions (40 credits)

This unit focuses on enhancing collaborative working methods and engaging with other creative practices. Collaborative projects explore team-working skills, project management and the ability to communicate effectively. Practical workshops are centred on movement and voice, interpreting text and devising immersive performance. Masterclasses in specialised techniques such as stage combat, mask work, and Laban Efforts encourage you to identify your own emerging interests. Cross-course collaborations with other disciplines such as film, sound, animation, fine art or fashion, enhance understanding of acting and performance from alternative perspectives, enabling you to gain new skills and knowledge within and beyond your subject area.

Diploma Year (optional)

Level 5 Diploma (120 credits)

Students have the opportunity to spend a year after the second of their degree (or the third year if studying for a degree with an Integrated Foundation Year) enhancing their employability options through a Level 5 Diploma. They can choose from courses designed to provide:

Opportunities to gain industry insight, developing employability skills through a series of supported experiences, expanding professional networks and building confidence in the workplace, or

An introduction to creative computing, building an understanding of how coding skills can be used to advance and complement creative practice.

Find out more about our Level 5 Diplomas.

Final year

Research and Preparation (40 credits)

This unit involves the preparation, management and completion of a written project. You will develop a body of independently sourced reference material, applied through creative experimentation and text-based research. Working from your emerging interests you may wish to interrogate a particular area, practice or approach to acting and performance. Furthering your knowledge of relevant theories, histories and concepts encourage you to identify employment potentials and opportunities for further study. By the end of the unit, you should feel well prepared to work independently on your final project and have a clear trajectory towards launching a career in your chosen area.

Resolution and Career Development (80 credits)

The final unit of study culminates in a showcase performance or performative event designed to identify, extend and consolidate your strengths as a professional actor and performer. Directed work and rehearsals immerse you in the entire production process. Alternatively, you can opt for an artist-led and/or mediated performance event. You will also develop a self-promotional strategy for optimising your career profile: guidance on headshots, voiceovers and film showreel, as well as technical workshops on professional website development and managing a social media profile. Career and employability sessions enhance your understanding of emerging opportunities in contemporary live and digital performance and/or further study.

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Learning and teaching

This course is taught through a mixture of learning and teaching methods including:

Learning and Teaching at Norwich

Group briefings

Academic tutorials

Group tutorials

Workshops

Critiques (crits)

Seminars

Lectures

Assessment

Assessment for this course is entirely coursework-based, meaning there are no exams. Your progress will be evaluated through the projects and assignments you complete for each unit. Throughout the year, you’ll receive ongoing feedback to help you refine your work and develop your skills. To support your learning and ensure you achieve the course outcomes, we use a variety of assessment methods, including:

Finished pieces of work

Presentations

Written work

Your research

A reflective journal

Find out more about Assessment at Norwich

Some of the people you’ll be working with

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Professor Ellie Nixon

Director of Film, Fashion and Performance

Adina Levay

Lecturer

Dr Ilona Krawczyk

Lindsey Crush

Subject Librarian

Our Facilities

Look around our city-centre campus, and you will find studios, media labs, and creative spaces in 13 buildings that sit among the cafés, bars, independent galleries and shops of Norwich’s cultural quarter.

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Acting Studios

Each space is equipped with mobile performance mirrors, sound playback and projection facilities, crash mats, and rehearsal furniture.

Media Resource Centre

As in a traditional library, students are able to loan out a range of specialist Production, Photographic, and Audio Visual equipment, and take part in workshops and demos to learn tips and tricks.

Production Theatre

The 300 seat lecture theatre is equipped with recording and live streaming facilities, and the stepped seating can be fully retracted, opening up the floor space into a rehearsal area.

Sir John Hurt Film Studio

Named after our former Chancellor, the BAFTA award winning and Academy nominee Sir John Hurt, the space enables students to develop specialist skills in direction, sound design, and scriptwriting. The studio is equipped with Canon EOS C300 cameras, green screen, and control room.

Sound Studios

The Sound Rooms are equipped with Adobe Audition for sound recording and basic editing, plus Izotope audio cleanup software — ensuring students are able to produce professional sound for their projects.

Here to help you succeed

The UK’s creative sector is thriving, contributing £111.7 billion annually to the economy and offering over 2 million jobs.

Employability and career development are integral to every unit of our courses, ensuring students are well-prepared for the industry. Our students go on to secure exciting roles, launch successful businesses, and make a lasting impact in many sectors worldwide.

From day one, you’ll also get specialist career advice from our Business and Employability Team to help support you as you plan your career.

Typical career paths

BA (Hons) Acting will give you the confidence, skills and knowledge you need to succeed as an artist in the ever-changing world of performance. Not only will you be well-prepared to secure work as an actor in stage, film and TV, but you’ll also explore new, innovative and cross-disciplinary performance practices. You’ll graduate ready to make your mark in the industry and beyond.

Acting for stage and screen

Voiceover for commercials, narration, radio, and games

Performance artist

Broadcast presenting

Community arts

Arts administration

Producing

Directing for stage and screen

Teaching

Drama therapy

“92% of our graduates are in employment or further education within six months of graduating”

Graduate Outcomes 2021

Entry requirements

Norwich University of the Arts welcomes applicants of all ages from all backgrounds.

If the qualification that you are studying is not shown, do not worry as we are able to accept other pre-entry qualifications as well as combinations of different qualifications.

A/AS Levels (GCE)

GCE A/AS Levels 3 A-level qualifications at grades BCC (104 UCAS Tariff points) or above. Where candidates are not taking 3 A-levels, Norwich University of the Arts will consider combinations of A-level/AS-level and other Level 3 qualifications.

BTEC Extended Diploma (QCF or RQF)

Distinction, Merit, Merit in an art, design or media related subject

BTEC Diploma (QCF or RQF)

Distinction*, Distinction* in an art, design or media related subject

T Levels

A T Level in any subject with overall grade A* to C (Pass)

UAL Extended Diploma

UAL Level 3 Foundation Diploma in Art and Design

UAL Level 4 Foundation Diploma in Art and Design

Foundation Diploma in Art and Design

Access to Higher Education Diploma (Art and Design)

International Baccalaureate Diploma

A minimum of 26 points

International

We accept qualifications from all over the world

To find our country-specific entry requirements, please visit our international entry requirements page.

English Language qualifications

Most international students are required to hold an English language qualification. Applicants must have an IELTS score of 6.0 overall and no less than 5.5 in each component. We do accept alternative English Language qualifications. Learn more about our English entry requirements.

You can email us on international@norwichuni.ac.uk if you’d like to discuss your application individually.

Auditions

If your application is successful, you will be invited to an audition. We understand you may be nervous, as much rides upon the outcome of any audition or interview. However, we work hard to ensure that your experience is a positive one.

For your audition, you’ll need to prepare two contrasting monologues—one serious and one comic. Whether performing in-person or online, ensure your monologues showcase your range and emotional depth. Think of each monologue as a mini-play, exploring shifts in tone, energy, and mood to bring the character’s journey to life.

Audition guidance

Upcoming audition dates

Auditions for 2027 entry will take place from the end of January 2027 to the beginning of March 2027. Exact dates will be confirmed shortly.

Offers are typically made within two weeks of the audition.

Fees and funding

Tuition fees for the 2027/28 academic year

Undergraduate course (three year): £10,050 per year

Level 5 Diploma Year (optional): £10,050 year

The level of fee that you will be asked to pay depends on whether you’re classed as a UK (home) or international student. Check your fee status.

Fees for subsequent years

Tuition fees may increase in subsequent years in line with inflation, subject to government regulations. The inflation rate used is expected to be the Retail Price Index excluding mortgage payments (RPIX), as forecast by the Office for Budget Responsibility. Tuition fees are reviewed annually by the University, and we would confirm any change to you in advance of each academic year.

Find our more about fees and funding

Funding your study

Depending on your circumstances, you may qualify for a bursary, scholarship or loan to help fund your study and enhance your learning experience.

Tuition fees that for the 2027/28 academic year

Undergraduate course (three year): £28,500

Level 5 Diploma year (optional): £19,380

For Overseas students starting in 2027 inflation will be applied to your fees in later years. We will confirm this in advance to you of each academic year, and we will limit the increase to no more than the Office for Students’ recommended inflationary measure.

If you defer your course start date or have to extend your studies beyond the normal duration of the course the University reserves the right to charge you fees at a higher rate and/or in accordance with any legislative changes during the additional period of study.

Find our more about international fees and funding

Please take a look at our International students page for information about fees, scholarships for international students, visas and much more.

Additional costs

Your course fees cover the cost of studies, and include loads of benefits, such as the use of our library, support from our expert employability team, access to workshops and free use of the IT equipment across our campuses. There are also other costs which you may need to consider.

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How to apply

All applications for undergraduate courses will need to be made via the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS).

You’ll need our university UCAS code (N39) as well as your course code which you’ll find on your course page.

When you register with UCAS you will need include your previous and current qualifications information, personal statement, and reference.

Once we receive your application form through UCAS, we will email confirmation that we have received it and will give you access and instructions for logging into the applicant portal. Our decision will be communicated via UCAS.

Applying for an undergraduate degree

Full-time Undergraduate International applicants can either apply via UCAS or directly by completing the online application form below or emailing the downloadable form to ioadmissions@norwichuni.ac.uk

Online Application Form

International Undergraduate Application Form – (216kb)

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Apply via UCAS

For further support for international applicants applying for an undergraduate degree view our international pages.

Undergraduate open days

Get a taste of life at Norwich, learn more about our courses, our campus and meet the creators and makers you’ll be learning from.

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“The Acting course worked out to be the best of both worlds for me. I was primarily interested in acting but I was also keen to learn some film skills, as at this point of my journey I wasn’t entirely sure what I wanted to focus on.”

George Underwood

BA (Hons) Acting

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