MA OR MFA THEATRE DIRECTING

Intensive practical training by leading UK professional directors Module options in Bali and Moscow Largest professional theatre directing programme in Europe

MA or MFA Theatre Directing is a unique and renowned course designed specifically for those who are already practising as or who wish to establish themselves as professional theatre directors.

It is open to emerging theatre directors and to students from the UK and to students from around the world. Our teaching is driven by a wide range of

overseas. The programme benefits from its close ties with the London theatre world, which provides training expertise of the highest calibre and the professional networks that are vital to launching a Theatre Directing career.

For MA study, you take four modules during three consecutive terms, followed by a three-month period of independent study, at the end of which you present a Director’s Production Workbook (or, alternatively, your MA Dissertation). For the MFA, running over 24 months, you take eight modules during six consecutive terms, followed by independent study that results in a fully resourced practical project at one of East 15’s theatre performance spaces or in a London theatre venue (or, alternatively, an MFA Dissertation). Each year you have the opportunity to choose four modules out of the seven or eight different options that we offer.

a regular basis, but always covers a range of directorial practice that is unrivalled in its diversity and will include several of the following: Shakespeare, Contemporary British Drama, Comedy, Musical Theatre and Opera, Physical Theatre, Brecht, Techniques of Adaptation, Improvisation and Devising Techniques, Contemporary Irish Drama, Rehearsal Processes and Workshops, Collaboration with Designers, Attachment (Assistant Director), The Artistic Director, Commedia dell’Arte and Directing for Camera. East 15 also runs some modules overseas, most recently in Moscow, Bali and Thailand involving specialist practical study in an alternative cultural environment. Overseas modules in Bali and Thailand include: World Theatre and Theatre of the East. In Moscow, at the GITIS Institute, modules include: Stanislavskian Acting Methodology, Meyerhold and Biomechanics, Michael Chekhov.

The course is full time however, some module choices enable periods of time away to pursue professional theatre work.

AFTER EAST 15

Former students now work as

run companies and venues as Artistic Directors or teach directing in universities and conservatoires around the world.