East 15 Acting School

Prospectus 2019 Prospectus 2019 “East 15’s extraordinary legacy and its reputation for rigorous and inspired teaching ensures students consistently display an unusual degree of courage, vision and versatility that is very exciting to watch.”

Colin Firth OBE Contents

4 Director’s welcome 6 About this prospectus 7 About East 15 8 Actor Skills at East 15 9 Prizes and Awards at East 15 10 Loughton Campus 12 Southend Campus 14 Support Services 15 Accommodation 16 Staff at East 15 21 Undergraduate study at East 15 22 BA Acting 24 BA Acting (International) 26 BA Acting and Community Theatre 28 BA Acting and Contemporary Theatre 30 BA Acting and Stage Combat 32 BA Physical Theatre 34 BA World Performance 36 BA Stage and Production Management 38 BA Creative Producing (Theatre and Short Film) 40 Certificate of Higher Education in Theatre Arts 42 Applying to East 15 as an undergraduate 44 Undergraduate auditions 46 Postgraduate study at East 15 48 MA Acting 50 MA/MFA Acting (International) 52 MA/MFA Theatre Directing 54 Applying to East 15 as a postgraduate 56 Postgraduate auditions 58 Summer Courses 60 Money matters 64 University of Essex 65 Further information 4 Welcome to the East 15 prospectus Director’s welcome Director’s

As you will read in the pages combination of resources and locations that follow, East 15 offers an enables us to offer a broad and diverse extraordinary, dynamic and range of courses at BA and MA/MFA unique portfolio of courses that level, and make use of innovative and span many areas of training for excellently equipped learning facilities, actors, directors, technical theatre such as the state-of-the-art Clifftown

East 15 East 2019 Prospectus specialists and students of theatre Theatre (www.Clifftowntheatre.com) and practice. In addition to the carefully suites of studios and technical facilities at selected UK students, we also both campuses. We have an outstanding teach and train students from student satisfaction rating in the UK of over 26 countries worldwide 95% total satisfaction in national student (www.east15.ac.uk) surveys. Here at East 15 we draw upon our As part of the University of Essex, one traditions of over 50 years, while of the UK’s leading academic institutions

www.east15.ac.uk combining this with a keen sense of the (www.essex.ac.uk), we pride ourselves changing world of stage and screen today. on placing excellence at the top of our Director Leon Rubin with recent graduates Our training is by professionals and for agenda in all our work. professionals, allowing our graduates to I look forward to meeting many of you work successfully across the globe. Our at auditions and interviews, and working international, outstanding teaching faculty with those of you that join East 15 for your is made up of professionals from all areas study and training. of live and recorded performance. We have two first class campuses in Loughton, on the edge of London, and in picturesque Southend-on-Sea. This Leon Rubin 5 6 About this prospectus

This prospectus has been prepared in Further information Spring 2018 for courses available from East 15 Acting School is part September 2019. of the University of Essex . Although great care is taken in compiling About this prospectus this prospectus, it is for the general At Loughton guidance of prospective students only. East 15 Acting School East 15 Acting School cannot guarantee Hatfields Campus the provision of all courses and services Rectory Lane advertised in the event of circumstances Loughton IG10 3RY beyond its control and therefore reserves the right to make changes or cancel any Telephone: +44 (0)20 8508 5983 course without notice, should this become necessary. The School cannot be held At Southend responsible for failure/delay in performing East 15 Acting School obligations caused by things beyond its Southend Campus reasonable control, such as fire, flood or Elmer Approach industrial action. For the most up-to-date Southend-on-Sea SS1 1LW information, please contact East 15 directly. The full Procedures, Rules and Telephone: +44 (0)1702 328200 Regulations for the University of Essex Fax: +44 (0)1702 328201 are set out in the Charter, Statutes E-mail: [email protected] and Ordinances and in the University Website: www.east15.ac.uk Regulations, Policy and Procedures. Art Director/Editor: Kevin Wyatt-Lown Copies are available on request from the University. In accepting the offer of Designers: FdK Design Consultants a place at the University, you consent to Photographers: Gemma Mount, incorporation of this notice as a term of Andrew H. Williams, Kevin Wyatt-Lown, contract between you and the University. Tongchai O Hansen, Robin Little Quality assurance East 15 East 2019 Prospectus The Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) last undertook a Review of the University from 2-5 December 2014. This Review found that the University meets all expectations required of higher education providers, ACTING SCHOOL and commended the University's focus on improving the student learning

www.east15.ac.uk experience. A copy of the full report is available on the QAA website at: www.qaa.ac.uk/ reviews/reports About East 15 7 About East 15 About East

For over 50 years, important contemporary trainers. East 15 has produced In 2000, East 15 merged with the actors, directors, University of Essex, a leading UK theatre practitioners research-intensive university, opening and technicians for the an exciting new chapter in the history international stage, TV, of both institutions and offering more film and radio. opportunities to students. East 15, based in Since 2007, under the directorship Loughton on the edge of of Leon Rubin, more than 13 million East London and founded pounds have been spent on new buildings by Margaret Bury, grew from and facilities for East 15 in Loughton and the work of Joan Littlewood’s Southend-on-Sea, including the Clifftown famed Theatre Workshop, which broke Theatre and Studios, once a Victorian new ground, re-interpreting the classics gothic church in Southend which now for a modern age, commissioning new enjoys a new lease of life, converted into plays from socially committed writers, and studios, workshops and a state-of-the- creating an ensemble capable of inventing art theatre and performance space. In new work. It evolved into an outstanding that period several new programmes ensemble that combined inspired, have also been developed to take the improvisational brilliance with method, school into a new era of international technique, research, text analysis and the and culturally diverse stage and screen intense expression of truthful emotion. performance territories. Much of the original approach was based East 15 is one of a leading group upon the theories of Stanislavsky and over of UK conservatoires. It is now one of the years new training methods at East the largest specialist theatre schools in 15 have now embraced approaches from the UK, with a distinguished international diverse practitioners, such as Michael teaching staff and an undergraduate Chekhov, Rudolf Laban, Jerzy Grotowski, and extensive postgraduate population Jacques Lecoq, Peter Brook and other of over 770 students. 8 Actor skills at East 15

East 15’s training emphasises a balance Voice Music between personal discovery, intuition The voice teachers at East 15 aim to equip Students with the ability to play musical and technical skills. The aim is to give students with the skills required to release instruments can develop those talents Actor skills at East 15 East skills at Actor students the basic awareness and their full vocal potential beyond the and there are numerous possibilities to confidence that will allow them to limits of “habit” voice. Students combine play in ensembles for private and public continue to learn and perfect their emotional truth with theatrical energy performances at East 15. Although craft in the years to come. using techniques derived from leading instrumental playing is not part of the Movement physical and vocal practitioners like Laban, assessment, actors who develop such Chekhov, Berry and Linklater. skills certainly enhance their employability. The main focus of the movement programme at East 15 is to encourage Singing Media confident, focussed, flexible, imaginative, Actors must have a good feel for music, East 15 students are introduced to the physically expressive and truthful actors. even if they cannot sing a note. Students techniques and disciplines of working The course is based on dynamic alignment at East 15 will learn to understand the with recorded digital and online media. (which may include Alexander, Authentic rudiments of music and be able to Movement, Bartenieff, Body Centring approach a song with confidence and Preparation for the industry Experiential Anatomy and Pilates), feeling. Students with musical theatre Guest lectures and workshops, given by characterisation techniques (including potential will be encouraged further industry specialists, help prepare East 15 Laban, Grotowski, Lecoq and Chekhov- although the overall emphasis is on students for the complexity of working based work), dance (including jazz and acting through song. in theatre, film, TV and related areas. ballet) and stage combat. East 15 East 2019 Prospectus www.east15.ac.uk Prizes and Awards at East 15 9

As one of the UK’s leading acting schools, Livia Heim (2014) Lucy East 15 has a number of students and Townsend (2013) and graduates who have won awards and Gerel Falconer (2012). competitive scholarships over the last few years. East 15 Awards There are several awards Carleton Hobbs Award made which are unique to

This Bursary provides winning students a East 15 East 15 for and Awards Prizes contract for six months work with the BBC The Elizabeth Mills Radio Drama Department. A long list of Award was established East 15 students have enjoyed recognition in 2015 and is worth through this competition. £2,500. First awarded Past winners have included BA to BA Acting student Acting graduates Roslyn Hill (2014) and Patricia Allison, the 2016 commended nominees have included recipient was BA Acting Patricia Allison (2017) Joseph Ayre (2016) and Contemporary and Andrea Valls (2015). Theatre student Cara Baldwin. BA Acting and Contemporary Theatre BA Acting and Community Theatre student Jennifer Woodward, The John Gielgud Bursary receives the 2017 Lillian Bayliss Award from David Suchet CBE. student Louise Barron This is worth between £2,500 and £4,500. received the award in Winning students from East 15 have 2017. included Samuel Edmunds (2017, £4,500), The Jacob’s Ladder Bursary There is an on-going annual programme Gabriella Leon (2016, £4.500) Kathleen was established in 2016 and makes of awarding New Production Awards, Hood (2015, £4.500) and Jamie Riley multiple awards totalling £25,000 made to new companies created (2014, £4,500). each year. In 2016 there were eight by both existing and past students. awards made. In 2017 some fifteen As well as supporting productions at The Laurence Olivier Bursary students benefited from the Bursary. the Edinburgh Fringe, these companies This is worth up to £7,500 for a student The £500 Tim Welling Award have also taken plays to the Brighton, entering the third year of BA Acting and commemorates a past student of the Camden and New York Fringe Festivals. is presented by the Society of London school and is awarded to a BA Acting In 2017 some £36,000 was awarded Theatres. East 15 students have regularly student. It was first awarded in 2014 to new companies. won this outstanding prize. In 2017 two to Ellie Moon. Subsequent winners In addition, the University of awards were made: Precious Mustapha was have been Katie Neil (2015), Hadley Essex hosts a no-cost crowdfunding awarded £7,500 while Jesse Jones received Brown (2016) and Jacob Reid (2017) programme which is open to all £4,000. Other winners have included; Also commemorating a past current and past students and, in Paisley Fay Jackson (2016) Rebecca Saffir student, and again worth £500, many cases, also offers match funding (2015) and Lottie Finklaire (2014) while in the Thomas Bennett Comedy for projects. Last year it supported 2012 Nayatia Hinds and Nathalie Wain were Award is awarded to a BA Acting some 15 productions to the tune of each awarded £2000. and Contemporary Theatre student. over £18,500. Sidonia Doica won this in 2017. Lilian Baylis Award Postgraduate Scholarships This is worth £1,500 and has been Edinburgh Festival and beyond There are a number of Bursaries and Scholarships available to consistently won by students from East Supporting career progression is an Postgraduate Students. 15, including Jennifer Woodward (2017) important part of the East 15 ethos. Ben Ayers (2016) Isabella Javor (2015) 10 Loughton Campus

East 15 has three sites in Loughton: the Littlewood Studio and East 15’s Hatfields, Roding House and Unit Four. costume department. Loughton Campus Loughton Each is just a five-minute walk from the Unit Four is a £1.5 million facility which nearest London Underground station, is home to the Stage and Production Debden, on the eastern branch of the Management department and it is situated Central Line and only thirty minutes next to Roding House. by tube from Central London, West Hatfields End theatres and all other major tube Student resources and mainline stations and termini There are 28 rehearsal studios at including Eurostar. Additionally, East 15 Hatfields, including a dance studio, Loughton Campus often presents students’ own work at radio recording room, Mac editing lab theatres and studios in London. and screening room. Computing facilities The campus offers a perfect balance In the Summer of 2016 work began and the library between access to the rich, cultural on a major set of new buildings and As part of a multi-million pound diversity of London while also providing facilities that will make this the best investment in the further an environment in which to study in an equipped single campus drama school development of resources on the attractive and peaceful setting. Loughton in the UK. Loughton Campus, 2017 saw the is situated on the edge of Epping Forest, opening of a new IT suite and The Corbett Theatre a 6,000 acre ancient woodland which extended Campus library. In addition, is ideal for leisure pursuits including Hatfields is also home to the Corbett there are also computer facilities at walking, running, cycling and horse riding. Theatre, named in honour of Harry H Roding House and at Unit Four, all The residential area around Loughton Corbett, a key Theatre Workshop member providing internet access, printing and offers a rich variety of shops, restaurants, and early benefactor of East 15. The photocopying. There is also wireless pubs and cafés and has a Leisure Centre building is a medieval tithe barn that was connectivity throughout the site. providing gym and pool facilities. dismantled and transported to Hatfields Students can also use the library The hub of Hatfields is a beautiful in the 1960s. These unusual origins resources at the Southend Campus Georgian dower house, set in six acres create a unique performance space with and the University of Essex’s of lawns with orchards, flowerbeds and a a unique environment for students to Colchester Campus library, which has small lake, providing an idyllic atmosphere perform in. Combined with full technical holdings of over one million books

East 15 East 2019 Prospectus for study, relaxation and performance. facilities, tiered seating for 125 people and microfilms, as well as some The site also offers a range of rehearsal and fitted dressing rooms, the theatre 7,300 current periodicals. Books are spaces, a Dance Studio and the school’s provides an excellent resource for public delivered to Loughton via a daily own, fully equipped theatre. The Corbett productions. Lectures, rehearsals and Theatre was built inside a medieval tithe technical classes also take place here, Roding House barn and is used extensively for student while the adjacent Theatre Foyer Bar and Roding House contains ten rehearsal productions. Café provides a social meeting point for rooms, a green room/café, a sound Just a short walk from Hatfields students and staff. recording studio and a video editing www.east15.ac.uk is Roding House, a £1.3 million suite. East 15’s extensive costume facility containing rehearsal spaces, department is also based here. Unit Four Unit Four is situated next to Roding House and is home to East 15’s Stage and Production Management department. The Unit contains a large workshop, paint shop, prop shop, prop storage facilities and teaching spaces. 11 12 Southend Campus

The Southend Campus is sited in the heart of Southend-on-Sea and is Southend Campus served by excellent transport links. Southend Central railway station, with journey times to central London taking less than one hour, is adjacent to the Gateway Building and Southend Airport, offering budget flights to many European and UK destinations, including Edinburgh, is just three miles away. Southend is the largest town in Essex and a vibrant seaside resort with a cosmopolitan atmosphere. In recent years it has been transformed by a redevelopment and enhancement scheme. It has seven miles of award- winning beaches and the longest pleasure pier in the world. Other social amenities and facilities in the town include three theatres, Student resources The Students’ Union museums, numerous art galleries and The Gateway Building The Students’ Union facility at the libraries. There are over 650 acres of Southend Campus provides a dedicated parks and gardens, a fun park and a The Gateway Building houses a space for students to meet, have a watersports centre, a bowling alley, purpose-built suite specifically for East coffee, relax and watch films or sport. leisure centres, pubs, clubs, cafés’ 15 students. This includes fully-equipped, It runs a wide variety of entertainment and restaurants. state-of-the art rehearsal studios with throughout the term, such as panoramic views across Southend-on- international nights and open mic nights. Sea, plus seminar rooms, computer

East 15 East 2019 Prospectus labs and media production resources Clifftown Studios and Theatre including an Apple Mac edit suite. Following the purchase of this The Forum magnificent Victorian former church in the heart of Southend’s conservation Opened in September 2013, The Forum area, it has been converted into a Southend-on-Sea offers a brand new variety of unique spaces for rehearsals, resource to enhance your student technical and practical work and experience. East 15 students have round performances. The church nave, with its www.east15.ac.uk the clock, secure access to the Learning original organ and stained glass windows Hub, which provides innovative IT and now provides an inspirational and study spaces. The Forum also houses an atmospheric environment, re-designed integrated public and academic library, to accommodate the needs of a 21st carrying books and other materials to century performance space. support East 15’s course at Southend. In addition, students have access to the East 15 Loughton Campus library and the University’s Colchester Campus library, if required. 13 14 Support Services

We offer a range of support services Student administration

Support Services Support designed to help you to achieve your At the Loughton Campus, we are able full potential and to get the most out of to provide students with official letters your studies. These form a coordinated and documentation, such as bank network of support, and are an letters, confirmation of enrolment and important part of the overall student council tax exemption forms, as well as experience. Support Services aim to authenticating documents by providing be accessible to you and responsive a University stamp for specific forms. to your individual needs. General, non-academic advice can also We offer confidential advice and be given about other services provided information on many issues, including by the University of Essex and the finance and funding, entitlement to Students’ Union. benefits and immigration issues. At the Southend Campus, all of the There are Student Support Advisors above services are available from the available at the Loughton and Southend Student Administration Team located Campuses who can offer initial advice on the second floor of The Forum. and information. You may be referred to other services for specialist advice. Pastoral system Helpful information is also available on Conservatoire training can be the website at www.essex.ac.uk/students demanding and, in response to this, and the Students Union Advice Centre the School has developed a network website at either www.essexstudent.com/ of support to help with any academic loughton or www.essexstudent.com/ and personal pressures. A personal southend tutor is appointed to each student and Dyslexia and other they are a channel for any enquiries or anxieties that the student may have. learning difficulties We have a strong tradition of Graduate support encouraging and supporting students East 15 and the University are East 15 East 2019 Prospectus with dyslexia and other specific committed to helping graduates enter learning difficulties. Provision includes: their chosen career with confidence. screening and/or referral for a diagnostic This support is given in the second assessment and advice on the Disabled and final year of undergraduate Students’ Allowance. courses and throughout the year for postgraduate students. It includes Disability career guidance, planning of audition We aim to create an accessible and pieces and advice from working www.east15.ac.uk enabling environment. We would professionals. encourage you, before you arrive, to contact the relevant disability service to discuss access to the University and to your course. These discussions are confidential. Students may qualify to apply for the Disabled Students’ Allowance and can contact us for advice. www.essex.ac.uk/students/contact/ Accommodation 15

Loughton Campus Accommodation Those who wish to live close to the Loughton Campus can choose from a wide range of shared student properties offering both Joint and Individual Tenancies. There is also the option to live with Resident Landlords who can provide a more flexible tenancy. The Students’ Union provides a property finding service, SU Lets, at our Loughton campus. They specialise in helping students secure local, private accommodation. All the properties they work with in the area are accredited by Epping Forest District Council. There are rooms in shared houses, living with a resident landlord or letting an entire house. Click on the “view our listings” area at www. essexstudent.com/sulets and select Loughton area to see what’s available.

Southend Campus Our state-of-the-art student residences in University Square offer 561 modern en-suite rooms arranged in flats, within seven houses around a central enclosed courtyard. You apply for accommodation directly to the University which aims to guarantee accommodation to all first-year undergraduates. 16 Staff at East 15 Staff at East 15 East at Staff

Professor Leon Rubin Dr Chris Main Director Head of Programmes (Southend) Leon Rubin is a fellow of the Royal Society Chris Main holds an MA in Theatre of Arts and the Royal Asiatic Society . Practice and a PhD in Elizabethan/ He has an Honorary Professorship of the Jacobean Theatre from Exeter University. GITIS University, Moscow. He is a former He is a Certified Teacher of stage Associate at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, combat with the BASSC, a fight examiner who began his career as Assistant Director for Stage Combat Germany and holds a at the Royal Shakespeare Company and black belt in Aikido. Chris has worked for has been Artistic Director of three major many theatre companies including: the UK theatre companies including Bristol Orange Tree, Stephen Joseph Theatre, Old Vic. He is author of The Nicholas Royal & Derngate, Crucible Theatre, Nickleby Story (the making of the RSC Graeae, The Northcott, and the BBC. production) and Performance in Bali, He has directed several shows for East 15 published by Routledge. He has directed – including a Martin Lynch premier and productions throughout the world, has also directed numerous productions including Canada, China, Thailand, Japan, for the Royal Armouries at the Tower of East 15 East 2019 Prospectus Greece, USA, Ireland, Chile and Hong London. He was the fight arranger for the Kong, as well as throughout the UK. He feature film The Roundabout and Assistant has also trained and lectured actors and Fight Arranger on the feature, Faintheart. directors in Russia, Spain, Korea, France, In what feels like a past life, he performed Holland and the Philippines. In the last few in Conquest, a series for the History years, he directed a series of Shakespeare Channel. productions for the Stratford Festival

www.east15.ac.uk Theatre, Canada, and a major Japanese theatre company, Bungaku-Za. He is director of a major show in Thailand, which has been performed in a 3,000 seat theatre for the past 16 years. He has also directed in the West End and in New York. 17

Andrea Brooks the book for three short musicals. Before such as Night Breath by Brian Oliver and Head of MA Acting joining East 15, she was Senior Tutor in Sleeping Dogs by Philip Osment; and TV musical theatre, dance and movement at productions such as Ant and Dec and The Andrea Brooks was Artistic Director GSA. She is now working alongside Jean Bill. She has worked as a voice over artist of Zygo Arts, an award-winning theatre Newlove author of the Laban books. as well as directed voice overs at Les and arts company working in the UK and Frogs and for Foreign Versions. internationally, most recently in Georgia. Stephen Douse She was a founder member of Beyond She trained at the Drama Centre and Head of Music (Southend) Words Theatre Company and Re: Actors has worked as a freelance director and Stephen Douse studied at the Royal Theatre Group. business trainer and mentor. She is an Academy of Music and has been a Her book, Voice into Acting, is Associate Artist at BAC, London. professional musician for 30 years. His published by Bloomsbury Methuen Drama. Dr. Margaret Coldiron work has embraced cabaret, jazz, music theatre, opera and world music and he has Simon Hunt Deputy Head of BA World Performance made many TV and radio recordings. He Head of BA Physical Theatre Margaret Coldiron is a specialist in Asian has worked throughout America, Europe Simon Hunt is an actor, theatre director performance and masks. She is a member and Japan, and with companies including and acting teacher who has worked in of the Directors Guild of Great Britain and Academy of Ancient Music and D’Oyly the Performing Arts Industry for the last a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society and Carte Opera Company, Hilliard Ensemble, 20 years. is widely published. After taking a degree Kent Opera and Welsh National Opera. Having worked with some of the most in English and Comparative Literature she Previously Head Of Music at ALRA he exciting International companies, including trained as an actress at the Drama Centre. has also taught at LAMDA and City Lit. De La Guarda, and taught at some of the She holds an MA in Text and Performance Steffany George top drama schools in the UK, Simon Studies from King's College and RADA emigrated to Sydney in 2003, where he Head of Movement (Southend) and a PhD in Drama from Royal Holloway. was Course Director of the Full Time Steffany George has been working with She has studied Topeng masked dance Acting Course at Actors Centre Australia. In actors for over seventeen years; first as drama and mask carving in Bali and has addition to over 50 shows and projects he a movement director and choreographer, worked with Japanese Noh masters has directed and created for drama and most notably, teaching movement Matsui Akira (Kita school), Umewaka schools, he has also worked professionally for actors, coaching, and directing plays Naohiko (Kanze school) and Michishige as both a Director and Movement Director at The Stella Adler Studio of Acting in Udaka (Kongoh school). Since 1997 she for TV and theatre projects. As an actor he New York City. Steffany has received a has been Associate Director of Thiasos, has worked at many theatres across the UK commission from The Nagouchi Museum a theatre company specialising in including The Young Vic, Victoria Palace in with Topaz Arts for her own work Gone intercultural productions of ancient the West End, Nottingham Playhouse, the Bye. She performed as a contemporary Greek plays. West Yorkshire Playhouse, Theatre Royal, dancer in numerous productions in She has also undertaken extensive Plymouth and The Gate, Notting Hill. Simon both New York and Germany. fieldwork on masked performance in India, trained at the Guildford School of Acting. Sri Lanka and Thailand. Christina Gutekunst Tracy Collier Head of Voice Dr Adrian James Course co-ordinator for Certificate Head of Movement Christina Gutekunst has been teaching Tracy Collier is an actress who has and coaching for nearly 20 years in in HE (Southend) appeared in theatres all over the country Germany and the UK. She trained in acting Adrian James initially trained as an actor including the West End and the National and voice at schools in Stuttgart, Bremen and for 12 years worked in theatre across Theatre. She also worked in TV and and Berlin in Germany and also in London, England and Europe. theatre in Italy. She completed an MA at and gained an MA Distinction in voice He has taught at many of the leading the Laban Centre and has been a director studies at the Central School of Speech British acting conservatoires, having and Choreographer for over 25 years. and Drama. She taught voice in various learned his craft at East 15, working She is now Artistic Director of her own drama schools and has been Head of for nine years during the 1980s with company, Time4Change Theatre. She has Voice at East 15 since 2003. Margaret Bury, the founder of the school. made various vocal recordings and written Christina has coached for both theatre He was the Associate Director of the 18 Staff at East 15

School of Acting and the Course Leader Rosemary holds a PhD from the Punchdrunk (UK), Centre for Performance of the M.A. in Acting at Arts Educational University of New South Wales in Sydney, Research (Wales) National Drama School for eighteen years and has taught regularly Australia and has presented keynote talks of Castilla and Leon (Spain), and Staff at East 15 East at Staff at The Actors Centre and lectured at the at conferences and symposia in Poland, University of Halle Institut für Dramatiska Institutet in Stockholm. Korea, Belgium and the UK. Sprechwissenschaft und Phonetik (Germany). Gordon Kemp Matthew Lloyd She studied a traditional Korean vocal Head of BA Acting and Stage Combat Head of MA/MFA Theatre Directing art form called p'ansori, has published Gordon holds an MA (Hons) in Political After graduating from Oxford, Matthew several articles regarding her intercultural Science from the University of Dundee went on to study at Harvard and Columbia approach to training actors’ voices and has and a Postgraduate Diploma in Classical Universities. Whilst Artistic Director at the presented her work at international Acting from the London Academy of Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester his conferences and symposiums. Performing Arts. He is a certified teacher productions included the award-winning Gerry McAlpine of stage combat with both the British An Experiment with an Air-Pump, and Head of First Year Studies and Course Academy of Stage and Screen Combat Waiting for Godot with Richard Wilson. co-ordinator for Certificate in HE (BASSC) and the British Academy of As Associate Director at Hampstead (Loughton) Dramatic Combat (BADC) serving a 5 year Theatre his work included the multi- Gerry McAlpine is an East 15 graduate apprenticeship at Shakespeare’s Globe award-winning The Fastest Clock in the from the early 1970s. She worked with Theatre as part of his training. As a Fight Universe by Philip Ridley, Slavs! by Tony Margaret Bury, who founded E 15, during Director & Performer he has worked with Kushner and the Olivier Award winning the years before she retired, and is proud a range of venues and theatre companies The Lucky Ones by Charlotte Eilenberg. to be able to pass on her East 15 training. including Riverside Studios, The Royal Freelance credits include the Olivier- She worked as an actress in Canada and Ballet, The Royal Opera, Shakespeare’s nominated Duet for One with Juliet England before returning to teach at Globe and Theatre Royal, Bath. He has Stevenson and productions at the East 15. also worked as an action performer, most Almeida, Royal Court, the Bush, most of recently on the TV series Vikings. Britain's leading regional theatres, plus Zois Pigadas Off-Broadway and Parco Theatre, Tokyo. Professor Rosemary Klich Head of Contextual Studies and Course coordinator for BA Acting (International) Professor of Research Ainslie Masterton Head of BA Acting Zois Pigadas is from Athens, Greece and Rosemary specialises in multimedia, has studied Theatre at an undergraduate immersive, and participatory theatre. Prior and Community Theatre level at York University in Toronto, Canada, to joining East 15 in 2017, she was Head of Ainslie Masterton worked as an actor, East 15 East 2019 Prospectus followed by Post-Graduate Studies at Drama and Theatre at the University of director and voice coach in Australia, Goldsmiths College, University of London. Kent where she taught since 2007. Her before focusing on community theatre He has been teaching actors and theatre current research investigates media, and film projects based around Sydney students for more than 15 years at, among sound, and spectatorship, and her and outback aboriginal communities. other insitutions, E15 Acting School, teaching expertise is in the theory and Since 1998 she has been involved in actor Goldsmiths College, University of Kent and making of contemporary performance training at Bretton Hall and East 15. Rose Bruford College. He specialises in practice. Her co-authored book Dr. Tara McAllister-Viel workshopping and devising Forum Theatre www.east15.ac.uk Multimedia Performance was published and has developed a methodology of with Palgrave in 2012 and she has since Head of Voice (Southend campus) Active Analysis based on the teachings published in journals such as Tara McAllister-Viel worked for some 20 of Jurij Alschitz. Contemporary Theatre Review, years as an actress, voice director and Performance Research, International voice-over artist. Uri Roodner Journal of Performing Arts and Digital Before joining East 15, she taught at Head of BA Acting and Media, and Body Space Technology. She Central School of Speech and Drama and has also undertaken various practice-as- has been Visiting Professor for Voice at Contemporary Theatre research projects working in collaboration The Korean National University of Arts, Uri has an extensive career as a performer, with performers, videographers, sound School of Drama in Seoul. director and mentor working in theatre, designers and photographers. Voice workshop credits include: film and TV. 19

He has appeared in major British He works with a wide range of global Sheryl-Lynne Valensky theatres including The Royal Court, performance styles, many drawn from Head of Stage and Production National Theatre Studio and The Arts African and Brazilian Drums, Music and Management Theatre West End, and collaborated Rituals. with leading companies including The Sheryl-Lynne has over 20 years of RSC, Gecko and The Clod Ensemble. He Robin Sneller experience as a stage manager in theatre, appeared in films by major directors such Head of MA/MFA Acting (International) film, television and special events. For the as Michael Winterbottom, Jose Pedilha and last 10 years, she has toured extensively Robin Sneller trained at East 15. He has through North and South America, Asia The Brothers Quay. He appeared in TV, on tutored and directed at Arts Educational, and Europe with Cirque du Soleil on 5 radio and in TV commercials in more than East 15, the Royal Scottish Academy of different productions. On her last show 15 countries, and worked as a documentary Music and Drama, where he directed with Cirque, she was also the Assistant film maker for The BBC, Channel 4 and Richard III, touring to the International Artistic Director. The Discovery Channel USA. His award Shakespearean Festival in Poland, and Sheryl-Lynne is from Toronto Canada winning Theatre Company ‘Tottering at the Royal Welsh College of Music and and has worked on many productions Bipeds’ toured to many venues in Britain Drama. As an actor he has worked in the there including The Phantom of the Opera including The Lyric Hammersmith, Sadler’s West End with Sir Peter Hall in Mind Millie and Disney’s The Lion King which ran for Wells, Sheffield Crucible, Edinburgh for Me by Feydeau, at the National Theatre, 4 years in Toronto. Her special events Traverse and Plymouth Theatre Royal. with Stephen Daldry at the Gate Theatre credits include Canada’s Juno Music Award The company toured abroad and their and the Crucible, as well as many seasons and the Annual Walk of Fame Award both work was filmed for a dedicated BBC2 at the Glasgow Citizen's Theatre and are produced as live television events. documentary. Edinburgh Royal Lyceum theatres. Sheryl-Lynne is part of the team Uri’s eclectic training includes The that developed this unique Stage and Drama Studio London, École Philippe Neil Somerville Production Management program that Gaulier Paris, Monika Pagneux, Pierre Head of Music combines practical work, projects and Byland, Desmond Jones School and classroom learning. the National Film School. He has taught Neil Somerville has been a Musical Director actors in London, New York, Shanghai, and Vocal Coach for 15 years and has Philip Weaver worked across the UK, Scandinavia and Amsterdam, Madrid and Tel-Aviv. Head of BA Acting North America. He toured the UK with Dr. Ramiro Silveira The Wind In The Willows, conducted the Philip Weaver trained at The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and Head of BA World Performance Scottish Premiere of Ragtime and has Goldsmiths’ College, University of London. been Musical Director for award-winning Ramiro Silveira is a director, lecturer, Philip has worked as an actor and productions of Sweeney Todd, West Side actor trainer and researcher. director for theatres including BAC, Story, Oklahoma! and The 25th Annual He holds a PhD in Theatre Pedagogy - Birmingham Rep, Colchester Mercury, Putnam County Spelling Bee. Many of his Theatre Artist Training from University of Glasgow Citizens, The Kings Head Islington, São Paulo (Brazil) and an MFA in Theatre singing students currently work in the West The Lyric Hammersmith, Nottingham Directing from University of Middlesex. End, on cruise ships and on UK tours. Neil Playhouse, The Oval House, RSC Summer He also trained with Eugenio Barba, regularly accompanies cabarets, master Studio, Salisbury Playhouse, The Scottish Philippe Gaulier and Genadi Bogdanov. classes and concerts with some of the best Chamber Orchestra, Theatr Clywd, Wolsey He is known for his innovative performers in the industry. He has been a Ipswich and The Young Vic, as well as BBC theatre rehearsal process called Theatre visiting Portfolio Coach at London School Radio Four. He has also worked in Holland, Playground, a study of presence and of Musical Theatre, Lecturer in Singing at Belgium, Slovakia and Scandinavia. relation based on rhythm, movement and Colchester Institute and Head of Music at He is co-founder and Associate Director multicultural references in order to inspire Ridley Studios. of Spinning Wheel Theatre Company. creative live theatre. Since 2001 he has been using his technique to direct plays and run acting and directing workshops all over the world. 20 www.east15.ac.uk Undergraduate study at East 15 21 Undergraduate study at East 15 East study at Undergraduate East 15 East 2019 Prospectus East 15 currently offers the following courses for undergraduate students:

Loughton Campus Southend Campus

• BA Acting • BA Acting and Community Theatre • BA Acting (International) • BA Acting and Stage Combat www.east15.ac.uk • BA Acting and Contemporary Theatre • BA Physical Theatre • BA Stage and Production Management • BA World Performance • Certificate of Higher Education • Certificate of Higher Education in Theatre Arts in Theatre Arts • BA Creative Producing (Theatre and Short Film) 22 BA Acting Loughton Campus UCAS code: W411 BA Acting BA

About BA Acting movement, BA Acting offers a step-by-step voice and process that begins in the first year singing are by introducing students to the basic integrated into methods and theories of acting the work and technique in small groups, then students start culminates in a final professional to build their preparation year in which students characters perform full-scale productions to public independently. audiences. They are asked to adapt to the differing demands of and promotion. Additionally, students Applicant information project and director, encouraging them to undertake a showcase performance which is presented in a major West BA Acting provides a thorough take responsibility for their own creative End theatre for an invited audience of preparation for a career in acting and aims work. Students experience a wide variety of challenging roles from nineteenth influential agents, casting directors, film, to develop each individual student’s talent, TV and theatre directors. extending existing skills in voice and century naturalism, to exploring the movement for professional life. textual and psychological complexities of After East 15 Shakespeare. Additionally, through the First Year Brecht cabaret and Commedia dell’Arte Graduates of BA Acting regularly appear projects, students learn to devise, in stage, film, TV and radio productions The first year curriculum covers acting, throughout the world. Recent graduates breaking the fourth wall. They are also voice, singing, movement and contextual have gone on to work with major introduced to film, television and radio studies. Students explore their own companies such as the Royal National work. creativity through work focussed on Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, co-operation, responsiveness to others Third Year Shakespeare’s Globe, Manchester Royal and the ensemble, fostered by group- Exchange, BBC, ITV and in the West End. The third year requires students to shared experiences. Acting on this course Students are consistently successful in the begins with objective self-assessment, meet the demands they will face in East 15 East 2019 Prospectus BBC Radio Drama development of professional performance industries. Carleton Hobbs competition, resulting observational skills and imagination: They deliver a wide variety of plays to in a professional contract. They have also recreating through observation, research extend their performance repertoire been consistent winners of both the The and improvisation. First-year work ranges and work with industry professionals John Gielgud and The Laurence Olivier from individual character study through to in recorded media. Plays and Bursaries. For the past eight years BA larger community based projects and the performance projects are chosen to Acting students have represented East 15 emotional upheaval of British realism. The meet the needs of the individual group at the Globe Theatre’s Sam Wanamaker www.east15.ac.uk first year culminates in a large scale Living as far as possible. All productions Festival. History Project, in which students study, demand research, advanced skills and They are known, and often cast, for understand and live the lives of others commitment. Theatre productions place their courage, originality and drive! through periods of conflict. a particular emphasis on ensemble work and actor contribution. Through Second Year specialised professional development The second year offers a journey of workshops students are introduced maturation. The focus of study moves to the administrative aspects of their from improvisation to text and from the future profession: including audition examination of self to the exploration technique, CV and letter writing, tax of character. Technical skills, such as and self-employment, self-marketing 23

Joseph Ayre East 15 is the safest place in the world. school gave me all the techniques, tricks On graduation, The wonderful teachers constantly and exercises I need to navigate my way Joseph was cast tell you this but it's only now that through this crazy industry. It's given in the lead role of I'm at the end of my 4 years that I me the confidence and the professional Christopher in the really understand what they meant. discipline to walk into any room, no matter National Theatre The BA Acting course encourages who is sitting in it, and do my job without production of The experimentation, celebrates individuality self-consciousness or doubt. It's also given Curious Incident and demands commitment, but if you me a group of friends for life and some of of the Dog in the fail, it's there to pick you up and throw the warmest, oddest and most hilarious Night-time. you back in again for another try. The memories that I will cherish forever. 24 BA Acting (International) Loughton Campus UCAS code: W83A

Technical skills, such as movement, voice and singing are integrated into the work and students start to build their

BA Acting (International) Acting BA characters independently. They are asked to adapt to the differing demands of project and director, encouraging them to take responsibility for their own creative work. Students explore the textual and psychological complexities of Shakespeare and Elizabethan Verse Drama. Additionally, students are introduced to the challenge of adapting their skills for film, television and radio work. Third Year The third year requires students to meet the demands they will face in professional performance industries. About BA Acting (International) First Year They extend their performance Built on the methodologies that have The first year curriculum covers acting, repertoire and work with industry helped establish East 15 as one of the voice, singing, movement and contextual professionals in recorded media. Plays most internationally respected drama studies. Students explore their own and performance projects are chosen to meet the needs of the individual training establishments in Europe, BA creativity through work focussed on co- group as far as possible. All productions Acting (International) is an extension of operation, responsiveness to others and demand research, advanced skills and the Acting course that has always been the ensemble, fostered by group-shared commitment. Theatre productions place at the core of the school's programmes. experiences. Acting on this course begins with a particular emphasis on ensemble work East 15 East 2019 Prospectus It offers a step-by-step process that and actor contribution. begins by introducing students to the basic objective self-assessment, development of observational skills and imagination, Through specialised professional methods and theories of acting technique re-creating through observation, research development workshops students are in small groups and culminates in a final and improvisation. First-year work includes introduced to the administrative aspects professional preparation year in which Verbatim Theatre and Contemporary of their future profession: including students perform full-scale productions Scene Study with the study of British Plays audition technique, CV and letter writing, and graduate with a professionally from 1956 to 1978 tax and self-employment, self-marketing produced showreel. www.east15.ac.uk The first year culminates in a large scale and promotion. Additionally, students will undertake Applicant information Living History Project, in which students study, understand and live the lives of to complete their own, professionally BA Acting (International) not only others through periods of conflict. produced, showreel. provides a thorough preparation for a career in acting while aiming to develop Second Year After East 15 each individual student’s talent, but also The second year offers a journey of Graduates of East 15 regularly appear offers the added benefit to international maturation. The focus of study moves in stage, film, TV and radio productions students of gaining invaluable insights into from improvisation to text and from the throughout the world. They are known, British culture and its influences on the examination of self to the exploration of and often cast, for their boldness and global stage. character. daring as actors. 25

Caitlin Denegre If I had to choose two words to describe the BA Acting International, they would be process and proactive. We are constantly being challenged to make the work our own, whether it is Shakespeare, Chekhov, or devising. Experimentation with your own personal process is vital. It is ever- evolving, just like theatre. Acting comes first and foremost on the course, with voice, movement, and context being incorporated into every project. The array of people and experiences on this course offer the stimulus and inspiration for work; the rigour of East 15 training provides the means to create that work. Most importantly, I've learned what type of work I want to create, and why. Looking back at my training, I can see how far I have developed since day one. My entire worldview has changed, and I have a much stronger sense of myself as an actress, both individually and as part of the creative ensemble. The skills gained in text work, voice, self-directing, theatre composition, and physicality laid a rock-solid foundation for the International Festival of New Work (IF) in third year. By that time, I felt completely equipped to tackle any task thrown my way, even if it was unfamiliar. If you are confident in your abilities to approach challenges with purpose and innovation, you can go places, and this course gives you exactly that. 26 BA Acting and Community Theatre Southend Campus UCAS code: W496

About BA Acting and and singing skills is offered across the justice system, develop a political theatre Community Theatre three years. project, a site-specific performance and create their own community play. This course is for students who believe Second Year Students further develop their skills in theatre is for all and wish to train for Second year students work in conjunction the production, marketing and evaluation a career in theatre practice focused in with practicing professionals to create of projects. Students work extensively the community. theatre based on the stories of local with communities and professionals BA Acting and Community Theatre people, make new work with young throughout their training, making for graduates will be professional performers BA Acting and Community Theatre and Community Acting BA people, make and edit videos, learn a seamless transition to a professional who also have additional skills as clowning, puppetry and circus skills career. At the end of the year, students workshop leaders and project managers, and develop workshop facilitation showcase their graduation projects with the musical, technical, video and skills. Students also manage our annual to theatre companies and industry web-based experience needed for Southend Street Theatre Festival. professionals. community theatre practice today. During this year students are also After East 15 Applicant Information placed with a professional company as an intern to develop an understanding Since the course was established BA Acting and Community Theatre is a of the community theatre industry and in 2005, graduates have worked as dynamic and active course for people to forge professional links. actors, project leaders and facilitators in who want to influence their world communities all over the world. Several through theatre. In an intensely practical, Third Year companies formed by graduates are now professionally-oriented course, a broad well established, respected and funded in range of acting, performance and In this year, students help facilitate theatre an increasingly competitive industry. workshop facilitation skills are developed projects in health, social services and the through projects with people in the local community and in partnership with leading external organisations. This is a professional route into the world of participatory theatre in which actors can East 15 East 2019 Prospectus create theatre for, with, and about the communities in which they will live. First Year The first year curriculum embraces acting technique, voice, singing, movement and contextual studies. Students explore their

www.east15.ac.uk creativity through work that explores self and responsiveness to others. Acting on this course begins with objective self assessment, development of observational skills and imagination, recreating through observation, research and improvisation. First year work begins with individual character study, develops through study and adaptation and culminates in the Living History project. Development of voice, movement 27

Natalya Martin Training here allows you to find who and have performed at venues such as you are as an artist; you are given the artsdepot and Stratford East with our When I came chance to create and try new things in original multisensory work designed for across this course, a safe space with supportive tutors and children with disabilities. The course it was as if it was classmates. I am now currently the artistic not only prepared me for every possible meant to be! It and managing director of FEEL Theatre, aspect of what the Arts industry may felt as though a company that I co-run with fellow throw my way, but it also prepared me all aspects of Community Theatre course graduates. for my actual life; and contrary to the my personality FEEL Theatre stemmed from our final “What am I going to do now?!” graduate were written year community play and is continuing to mentality, I left feeling prepared, capable into one jam-packed course. develop into an established company. We and ready to take on the world. Since graduating I continue to work as have worked with multiple organisations an actor, director, writer and facilitator. 28 BA Acting and Contemporary Theatre Loughton Campus UCAS code: W441

About BA Acting and First Year Contemporary Theatre During the first year students share their This course is renowned not only as an work with peers on the parallel BA Acting innovative and highly influential training courses, following the traditional East 15 program but also as a creative hub that training and focus on the development produces original, bold theatrical work. of methodical characterisation work. Alumni are renowned in the industry as Attention is given to knowledge of versatile actors who can join a creative self and the development of a neutral process as innovative partners. starting point as part of rehearsal After East 15

BA Acting and Contemporary Theatre and Contemporary Acting BA The BA Acting and Contemporary process and preparation. Classes Alumni of the BA Acting and Theatre course offers a unique and are given regularly in voice, singing, Contemporary Theatre course are highly challenging pathway dedicated movement and research. These will participating in the industry not only as to training multi-talented actors who continue throughout the course. actors in theatre, film and TV, but also have the competencies necessary to by staging their own work to audiences create vital new work and to realise Second Year worldwide. Recent graduates have gone their own artistic inclinations. This During the second year the focus on to work with major companies such as approach is underpinned by a philosophy shifts to familiarisation with form The National Theatre, Complicite, Cirque that sees the actor as an independent, and style. Students experiment with Du Soleil, The Globe, Frantic Assembly, creative and entrepreneurial ‘artist’. visual impression, contemporary text, BBC and ITV. While developing their skills as actors, Commedia Dell’Arte, the theatrical clown, A highlight of the graduate year is students experiment with European script writing, music and parody. the staging of the acclaimed Debut physical theatre, devising, creative They explore the relationship between Festival, dedicated to staging new work writing, composition and cross-media art. film and theatre as well as theatre as written, directed, devised and performed The training relates in methodology to a tool for social change, and the year by students. Many past works have contemporary international companies ends with a site-specific production transferred to professional production such as Complicite, the Schaubühne and of a classical text. and some major awards received by the Wooster Group. graduates including: ‘Spotlight Best Actor’, East 15 East 2019 Prospectus Third Year ‘Scotsman Fringe First’, ‘Eddies Comedy Applicant information The final year focuses primarily on staging Award’, ‘Sky Arts’, ‘Olivier Bursary’, ‘Soho The BA Acting and Contemporary Theatre new work. Led by visiting practitioners Theatre Young Writer of the Year’, ‘BFI course strives to respond to emerging from the industry, students develop ideas Best Short Film’, ‘BBC Films Screenplay industry demands with an immediate and and produce their own work including First’ and ‘Cape Town Best Play’ and ‘Total dynamic methodology. It offers eclectic new plays, devised shows, physical Theatre Award for innovation’. teaching inspired by Lecoq, Grotowski, comedy and short films. Preparation Most recently, alumni and theatre

www.east15.ac.uk Boal and their followers. The training is for post-training career is given such as companies formed on this course have tailored around multi-talented performers guidance in forming companies as well been staging original work in major wishing to experiment, explore and as casting exercises. venues including: The Royal National participate fully in the creative process. Opportunities are given to stage Theatre, The Royal Shakespeare A unique policy of specialisation allows students’ work in the public arena Company, BAC, Birmingham Rep, some students to expand in such roles including a showcase event for agents, Manchester Royal Exchange, National as actor/musician, actor/writer, actor/ producers and casting directors. Theatre of Wales, Soho Theatre and West choreographer and so on. Yorkshire Playhouse. Work created in this course also been staged Australia, Belgium, Cyprus Denmark, Iceland, Ireland, Mexico, Poland, South Africa and the USA. 29

Joe Darke uncompromised and shameless ambitions an ‘Adelaide Best Actor Award’ and a This course will that really sets its graduates apart from the London ‘Offie ’ for my choreography. celebrate your rest and what makes them such an asset I subsequently signed with a leading individuality and to the industry. From my year group alone agent and worked in TV and film and with equip you with there are graduates working as actors, The National Theatre and Cirque Du Soleil. musicians, dancers, puppeteers, directors, every possible Most recently, I have moved to China where writers, producers; all at the very height of skill to see your I currently play the lead in Franco Dragon’s ambitions come their profession. The House of Dancing Water. to fruition. Upon graduation, I immediately began This course allowed me to develop In addition to its touring with my own theatre company’s essential, progressive and nuanced training, debut production ‘Bound’, written, directed, both as an actor and an artist. I regard my it will give you an untiring work ethic and produced and performed exclusively by decision to accept a place as the best I have make the most out of your individual students from this course. It won a number ever made. talent and skills. I believe it is this drive for of major international awards and I received 30 BA Acting and Stage Combat Southend Campus UCAS Code: W412

About BA Acting and First Year Stage Combat During the first two years, the course This course offers professional and is structured into six modules in which vocational training in stage combat students acquire and practice skills. In stage combat they study at least four to apply their skills in a professional

BA Acting and Stage Combat and Stage Acting BA and performance. Students prepare to follow a career path in theatre, film and weapon systems; in sporting skills they performance environment. This is television where they may choose to train in Aikido and work towards British supported with classes in contextual become actors, action performers or Fencing qualifications in fencing; in studies that cover health and safety, action directors, movement specialists physical skills their studies include ballet, fights in the cinema and theatre history. or continue their training to become gymnastics and historical archery. The Third Year instructors in related fields. acting training in the first year follows BA Acting and Stage Combat draws the East 15 philosophy, which is rooted In the third year, students harness and on the East 15 philosophy of training in Stanislavski principles, character work develop their talent in further study of and the creation of a fictitious yet truthful and is focused on training actors stage combat in performance, looking world. Students experience methods of through a variety of demanding physical at special effects, advanced wounding acting from the traditional inside-outside performance skills. This includes use of and killing. They perform in a number methodology, as well as exploring outside- multiple weapons and archery. of public productions, which focus on a in approaches. This traditional performance It aims to create a performer who classical text, another text-based show, training is supplemented with voice, is emotionally connected, focused, and a devised performance. They also Commedia dell’Arte and devising. Classes perform scenes for camera and are given disciplined and can use his/her voice are supported with modules in contextual the opportunity to create their own work and body as a tool of expression. It will studies, which sets the training they receive through the graduation project. Graduating give students professional skills to work in a wider context. students are prepared for entry into the creatively and safely. As specialists in their professional arena with sessions in audition field, students will study in an historical Second Year technique, personal management skills, as well as contemporary context, learning The second year builds on the skills and study into the process of production research skills required to develop their acquired in Year One as well as preparation. As part of the preparation for East 15 East 2019 Prospectus work within the industry. introducing new strands to the training. the performance industry, students are Applicant information In stage combat they explore four further, guided through research and the planning advanced weapons systems. Film is of a theoretical production. Students are BA Acting and Stage Combat has no introduced and students continue to given assistance in marketing themselves. comparable training course, either work towards higher belts in Aikido. in the UK or in the rest of the world. In their physical skills they continue After East 15 Applicants must be able to face the with gymnastics, and are introduced to Over the years, a number of East 15

www.east15.ac.uk rigours of the course, which typically the principles of parkour, social dance, graduates have gone on to become leading include gymnastics, martial arts and climbing and rope work. In acting, they actors,fight directors, stuntmen and strenuous physical effort. It may suit explore different methods of rehearsal specialist performers. This work extends those who have already done martial and further exploration into the scenic from staged fights on film, television, arts, gymnastics or similar pursuits and unit. Skills such as voice, singing, and in the theatre, opera and ballet, to re- have the potential to use these skills in a movement for actors continue to be enactments of historic battles, and animal creative context as an actor/performer. developed. Through performance projects and mechanical costume operating work for Additionally, East 15 looks for performers in Shakespeare, animal/mask and devised films. This course intends to draw upon this with a physical background who learn work the core elements of their training expertise and put stage combat and related through, and wish to express character are integrated and refined. In the final specialist performance skills into a coherent and story with, their whole body. term, students have the opportunity context and improve practice in this area. 31

Chris O’Reilly specialised physical skills and detailed course. I swung swords, I was mentored actor training all being taught by a by inspirational tutors, I was taught how As a child I found wealth of friendly, established industry to tumble, to social dance, to use firearms, myself awestruck professionals who guide you through your to devise, to compose music, to act, but whilst watching studies and leave you well equipped for ultimately, learnt fantastic skills directly action scenes on anything the industry has to offer. applicable to sustaining a career. I enjoyed screen or stage. The facilities at the Southend Campus every last second of my time at East 15. From an early age are utterly fantastic. The Clifftown Theatre After graduating and becoming a working I took to acting provides a top spec theatre space that can part of the industry I don’t think I could and dreamt of be changed to accommodate any layout, a career where feel better equipped to tackle any job that while the studios offer large rehearsal I would be able, one day, to fill spaces where combat can be taught safely. could be offered to me. the shoes of those actors. There is also a full armoury packed to the The quality and intensity of the training For me the BA Acting and Stage brim with weapons along with gymnastics you will receive here is, in my opinion, Combat course was the perfect answer and tumbling equipment. the best you will find, and I couldn’t to that long established childhood dream. On a personal level, I couldn’t be more recommend the course highly enough The course boasts an impressive mix of satisfied with my three years on the to anyone looking to join the industry. 32 BA Physical Theatre Southend Campus UCAS code: W494

Applicant information Third Year BA Physical Theatre Physical BA This course appeals to The third year of training is all about actors, creators and professional preparation and performance. performers interested in Students work with Industry professionals devising physical and visual on a number of full productions in work, who are excited our state of the art theatre, including about creating new shows an Ensemble Devised Performance, a as well as re-imagining scripted play and a self-created small traditional group devised Performance. pieces. We are looking for Since 2016 we have collaborated with actors who are passionate the David Glass Ensemble to create shows about physical performance that can be professionalised and taken working in parallel with beyond East 15. the traditional intellectual The core classes continue as well as an approach to acting. introduction to acting for camera. About BA Physical Theatre First Year Through the year students meet East 15’s BA Physical Theatre combines Industry professional from the major During first year you will develop the basic the best of traditional British companies for employment talks and skills that will be used throughout your workshops – companies have included drama school training with exciting, career. Alongside the fundamental voice, Frantic Assembly, Complicite, Told by an modern European acting and physical movement and singing classes you will Idiot, Gecko, Tangled Feet and the Royal performance methodologies. be studying acting, improvisation, neutral Shakespeare Company. Students also mask, expressive mask, mime, Poor present a Showcase to an invited industry What is physical theatre? Theatre, bouffon, acrobatics, devising, audience of agents, casting directors and Physical Theatre is the name given to a storytelling and contextual studies. Many wide range of performance work that of the modules culminate in a classroom major theatre companies. doesn’t fit the traditional idea of theatre. It based performance; these include

East 15 East 2019 Prospectus After East 15 is the increasingly popular and mainstream Contemporary Scenework, Poor Theatre, As well working as actors and performers style of work that includes the physical, Narrative and Story Theatre, Mime and on stage, film, television and commercials visual, devised, ensemble, circus, mask and Expressive Mask. A major strand through in the UK and across the world, the BA puppetry theatre traditions both first and second year is Theatre Café, Physical Theatre graduates have worked The BA Physical Theatre provides where students present their own work to their peers. as puppeteers, street performers, aerial students with opportunities to acquire specialists, clown performers and have set a wide skills base to be able to work Second Year up their own theatre companies creating www.east15.ac.uk in all areas of the Industry. Alongside The second year extends and builds and touring new work including the award the core Acting, Voice, Singing and on the skills developed through first winning Outbound Project and Moth Movement classes, the students produce year. The core acting, voice, movement Physical Theatre. Graduates have gone on major projects in Devised Storytelling, and singing classes continue, with the to work on shows such as War Horse and Aerial Circus, Mask, Mime, Puppetry and addition of more technically demanding Walking with Dinosaurs with companies Clowning, leading towards full scale public subjects, such as Aerial Circus, Object such as the National Theatre, Tangled Feet, performances in third year. Practitioners Theatre and Puppetry, Commedia Del Tall Stories, Graeae, La Fura Dels Baus, covered include: DeCroux, Gaulier, Arte, Melodrama and Biomechanics. The Globe, Theatre Royal – Stratford, the Grotowski, Johnstone, Lecoq, Meyerhold, Again, students perform two major Barbican, Contact Theatre and the National Spolin and Stanislavski. classroom projects per term. Theatre of Scotland. 33 Shanez Rayceen Pattni For years I have tried to find the balance between storytelling without text, but also to justify movement whilst speaking text - questions that were slowly answered throughout the course. A course with staff that have pushed me beyond my comfort zone to achieve my full potential is something that I will carry with me for life, as without that I would not have grown into the performer I am today. The course promises a journey of intense physical skills combined with traditional acting, which vary from devising theatre in the air, to a mime solo; to melodrama in the theatre. It will also not shy away from text work; understanding language and how may it be brought to life by physicalising the subtext or actions. For me, it has been a journey full of surprises, confidence battles and self-discovery; I have enjoyed watching how that has affected my performance. One of the main advantages of this course is that new work is always encouraged. Devising was embraced from the very first theatre café to the very last graduate show; the perfect reminder for us to never give up on our imagination. I have been lucky enough to create and perform with the most talented group of people I have ever met. We grew from an ensemble to a family; making work that would always push expectations. “You have to go through your breakdown to get your breakthrough”, said a wise man. I wish I’d heard that when I was auditioning for drama school, because after all those rejections I didn’t realise my breakthrough was actually getting on to this course. I am forever thankful. 34 BA World Performance Southend Campus UCAS code: W495

About BA World Performance First Year This is a unique course designed for The first BA World Performance World BA creative students who wish to combine year offers a practical performance skills with foundation of advanced understanding of global skills for study performance approaches. It extends the and performance, western-centred teaching and learning as well as the key processes at East 15 into a diverse and academic tasks more global context. of assimilating BA World Performance offers a hybrid and recording practice-based and theoretical study that information. explores historical, theoretical and skill- There is a study centred approaches to performance forms of the role of across the world. It will deal with selected music in world aspects of performance forms, traditions performance, independent study and presenting the and styles from Europe, Asia, Africa and allowing students results orally and in written form. North and South America. to engage from the outset with a range of cultural influences and to experiment The course looks at theatre, dance- Third Year with their own performance interests and drama, masks, music and dance abilities, and to broaden their knowledge In the third year, students continue within different cultural environments, of different cultural contexts of their study of context and analysis concurrently developing a broad range performance. Students gain a foundation through research projects, while of creative skills in media, writing, in Western performance practices as skills work continues and is focussed performing and directing. It owns, in a strong point of relation to the more on a series of major independent addition to other world instruments, intensive multicultural performance group performance projects, in which a complete Balinese gamelan. training they experience in the second students have increasing autonomy Students are involved in devising, year. East 15 East 2019 Prospectus researching, creating and performing and freedom to pursue their own projects that reflect the influences Second Year aesthetic, intellectual and professional of styles of performance worldwide. priorities. The emphasis is on In the second year, work is centred collaborative working and evolving Work develops into practical projects on a set of case studies which allow a professional practice, supported allowing students to explore creatively students to gain and demonstrate a by teaching in organisational and in a performance environment, drawing broad base of knowledge of different entrepreneurial skills and by substantial on the styles and forms of performance traditions, approaches and issues in world

www.east15.ac.uk introduced during the three years. performance, while at the same time independent research tasks. developing and applying a significant Applicant information After East 15 level of performance skill. There is Graduating students will be equipped as BA World Performance is aimed an opportunity to work intensively at students who have an interest in with a visiting practitioner(s), resident performers and could also be producers, performance but want to go beyond in Southend, in a non-Western or writers or researchers because they the definition of “professional actor” intercultural performance form. This will have add-on skills that “traditional in the traditional sense. Typically, it will work culminates in a major performance. actors” do not possess. They will also interest students who are drawn towards During this year students also increase have knowledge of different cultures that complimentary performance art tradition their competence and confidence as will prepare them for working anywhere in a world context. independent researchers, conducting in the world. 35

Alexandra musical theatre, Shakespeare, animal as a person. If you’re curious by nature Andrei studies, mask work and film-making and like learning about all the wonderful are just a few of the things that ways in which humans have expressed BA World I’ve learned about and experienced themselves along the years, but you Performance during the time I’ve been here. also want to spend most of your day will change your This course has made me think of working in a rehearsal studio toward a live definition of what myself not only as an actor, but as a performance and actually doing things theatre is and theatre-maker; and the people I’ve met rather than just being told about them, I’d what it can be. through it and the experiences I’ve been say don’t think twice. Capoeira, Balinese lucky to have as a result of it have helped dance-drama, yoga, political speeches, me grow not only as a theatre-maker, but 36 BA Stage and Production Management Loughton Campus UCAS code: W453

About BA Stage and students are exposed to the latest creative Second Year Production Management and technical developments in one of the In the second year, students begin to world’s greatest theatre capitals. BA Stage and Production Management take on more responsibility for the is a full-time vocational course that Applicant information productions, developing their managerial and organisational skills and developing prepares students to become versatile BA Stage and Production Management further their stage and production professionals in a wide range of offers students multiple opportunities for management skills. Students become production roles in theatre and related creative and practical problem solving. fully responsible for production budgets industries. The course develops the Students come to this course at East 15 and the collaboration with professional individual’s qualities and transferable with a range of backgrounds, interests directors and designers. BA Stage and Production Management and Production Stage BA skills of communication, presentation and skills including performance, technical and analysis necessary for employment. theatre, art and design: these mirror the Third Year The course has a strong emphasis many and varied roles that make up a In the third year, students will be working on learning through practice. Students production team. Some understanding at professional level and taking full become part of a creative production and experience of a performance responsibility for the organisational and team within the first six weeks of starting environment is desirable, but not essential. the course. financial aspects of all public productions The course is based in a specially First Year in a number of different venues. Students also undertake a professional industry- equipped building, containing workshops, During the first year, students acquire based work placement. an IT suite and seminar rooms. East 15’s a range of established core stage close proximity to London is one of management and related skills whilst After East 15 the great advantages of this course as working on a number of public Employment prospects for graduates are productions each term. These will include excellent. In addition to the widespread an understanding of: Budget Management, Construction, Costume, Design, Event opportunities offered in the stage, film Management, Health and Safety, Lighting, and television industry, suitably qualified Prop making, Sound, Specialist Software staff are in huge demand across an East 15 East 2019 Prospectus and Stagecraft. events sector worth over £39 billion Students will work on productions in to the national economy and which these areas to gain a firm professional embraces the Corporate, Cultural, grounding for their future stage Exhibition, Festival, Music, Outdoor and management careers. Students also Sports markets. Students often gain undertake a design project to support employment through successful work their work with professional directors and placements. Recent graduate employment designers. Students will take on full stage has included: BBC TV’s Holby City, The www.east15.ac.uk management roles in public productions Entertainment Business Management throughout their first year. Company, Royal Shakespeare Company, Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, Stage Electrics and Unusual Rigging (Dubai). BA Stage and 37 Production Management Loughton Campus UCAS code: W453

Niamh Graham different roles to help you understand the industry as a whole. In each show’s I've really enjoyed creative team role I have been tasked with the BA Stage I have learned new things and have had and Production just as much fun as the last. Management course. I'm very I would recommend this course to practical and this anyone that is passionate about theatre course suits me and is open to learning as much as you perfectly since can. I would be lying if I didn't say that the you're never in your seat for too long! course was intense! But if you have the Even though it is Stage Management right attitude and passion your hard work based, you explore and work in many will pay off. 38 BA Creative Producing (Theatre and Short Film) Southend Campus UCAS code: W900

of production roles in theatre endeavour into a feasible, marketable and related industries. The product; they will also work behind course develops the individual’s the camera to make short videos (that qualities and transferable skills can exist on their own as a narrative of communication, presentation or support larger work as marketing and analysis necessary for material). These largely practical modules employment or, indeed, to are complimented by two further modules become employers themselves that develop requisite research skills and through their own creative provide a historical and cultural context endeavours. to theatre making. The course is based at our Southend Campus, affording Second Year the opportunity to not only be Throughout this year students develop About BA Creative Producing working alongside students their new skills by focusing on more (Theatre and Short Film) in training across a wide range of acting specific tasks. Students will also engage BA Creative Producing (Theatre and Short Film) (Theatre Producing Creative BA in writing for film and theatre and BA Creative Producing (Theatre disciplines but to also have direct access develop their understanding of location and Short Film) is a full-time course to the state-of-the-art Clifftown Theatre. management, fundraising, preparing grant that has been designed to provide Applicant information proposals, touring a production, editing a vocationally-centred programme for a trailer and filming live events. in producing theatre and film that BA Creative Producing (Theatre and Short Film) offers students multiple draws together broad disciplines Third Year of the theatre (such as, writing for opportunities for creative and practical performance, lighting and sound, problem solving while also developing The Third year has one core unit, directing, dramaturgy, prop and digital their business and entrepreneurial skills. a dissertation project, in which the set design and creation) with business- Applicants to this course at East 15 are students bring together all their ideas focused aspects of the creative likely to have a broad range of interests by planning a project that they could and skills including directing, filmmaking, feasibly achieve in the future. Alongside

East 15 East 2019 Prospectus arts and the associated industries (including marketing, web-design and scriptwriting, performance, production this, there will be a number of options arts management). The programme arts management, arts funding, budget that permit them to practically engage is aimed at entrepreneurial artists and account management, business and with their chosen pathway. Through these with an interest in creating, producing, marketing. project-based exercises, students will be administrating and promoting theatre Some understanding and experience able to come together to work in groups, and short films. of a performance environment is or to work individually. desirable, but not essential. With a strong emphasis on learning After East 15 www.east15.ac.uk through both practice and theory, students work individually and as part of First Year The UK's creative industries are now creative teams from the first year onwards In the first year there are modules that worth over £84 billion to the UK economy. and begin working with actors, directors build the foundations of knowledge and While there has never been a shortage of and designers, to develop, manage and skills that students will need to progress creative talent to originate work across promote projects for public performance. to more creative modules in years 2 the digital, live event, music, publishing Building on East 15’s already and 3. In these units they will learn how screen and stage sectors, all of this talent proven track record for helping create to create both objects and scripts for needs to be managed and employment International award-winning companies, theatre productions; develop the basic prospects for well-trained graduates the course prepares students to become skills for producing and develop their in this field are excellent. versatile professionals in a wide range understanding of how to turn an artistic Subject to Validation. BA Creative Producing 39 (Theatre and Short Film) Southend Campus UCAS code: W900 40 Certificate of Higher Education in Theatre Arts Loughton and Southend Campus UCAS code: W410

About Certificate of Higher Education in Theatre Arts This course provides a foundation in acting and can prepare students for further study, either at East 15 or other acclaimed acting schools. The intention is to help create actors who will have an intellectual as well as a vocational life in the theatre. It will provide a sound foundation in theatre; introducing students to concepts and mechanics behind each. The Certificate of Higher Education

Certificate of Higher Education in Theatre Arts in Theatre Education of Higher Certificate in Theatre Arts aims to demonstrate to students the relationship between theatre and other art forms, in addition to the cultural context which gives each era its distinctive identity. It is a highly- focused exploration of acting techniques. This includes (on a practical level) movement, dance, music, improvisational skills and acting. Overall, it is an intensively practical scheme. First Term begin to establish approaches to textual Students are regularly taken to Throughout the three terms, students analysis and are introduced to the use of performances of theatre, music and undertake a number of compulsory improvisation. Again the term culminates dance, as well as visits to art galleries, modules. These cover audition technique in an assessed studio-based show to East 15 East 2019 Prospectus exhibitions, films and important sites movement and dance, voice and singing, a small invited audience of staff and (such as castles and historic houses) and contextual studies. During the first students. which represent the spirit of their age. term, additional acting modules encourage Third Term students to explore imaginatively through Applicant information various means of communication and An acting module in this final term brings The Certificate of Higher Education in learn about the roots of theatre. Students together all the work over the last year. Theatre Arts provides a broad cultural and also begin to study themselves in the The course then culminates in two showings in campus theatre spaces. www.east15.ac.uk practical education. It prepares students same way as they will learn to study a for entry to full-time training in theatre in character, deepening their understanding After East 15 one form or another, either at East 15 or of what it means to be human. The term elsewhere. It gives students confidence, culminates in an assessed studio-based During the year, students may audition motivation and an understanding of the show to a small invited audience of staff for places on one of the acting courses at art of theatre. During the first two terms and students. East 15. Many students are also accepted at the Southend Campus students are at other drama schools or at university also introduced to the acting courses Second Term drama departments. Students will be which specialise in Stage Combat, Physical Within acting modules in the second term, helped to choose and prepare scenes Theatre, Community Theatre and World heightened, poetic and classical texts for audition purposes. Performance. and characters will be studied. Students 41

Holly Mathams aspects of performance: movement, connections and friendships which will voice and singing. I found one of the two last for a lifetime. The course was a game I completed the main advantages of the Cert HE are the changer for me in terms of audition Cert HE in Theatre in-depth classes in audition technique, success, but most importantly it taught me Arts in 2017 and enabling you to be fully prepared for more about myself, the world and human felt it was an auditions for any three year programmes nature than I could have ever imagined. ideal stepping stone towards you may wish to apply for, and the fact The staff are experts in their fields and the a BA Degree in that you can obtain the full loan to fund quality of teaching, thought and care never performance arts. study from Student Finance England. failed to blow me away. I honestly cannot It also serves as a fantastic exploratory Not only did the Cert HE provide recommend the course enough. You will stand-alone course if you are unsure me with the skills and confidence that engage with students from all walks of life about what you want to progress enabled me to gain a place on the BA and finish with a whole cohort of creative towards. You cover the fundamentals of Acting and Community Theatre course, collaborators. acting and devising, as well as the core it also provided me with professional 42 Applying to East 15 as an undergraduate

All undergraduate applicants to BA Acting and Community Theatre must BA Creative Producing (Theatre and East 15 must demonstrate their be successful at audition, and achieve Short Film) must be successful at suitability for entry. CDD at A-level or the equivalent in interview, and achieve BBC at A-level, There is no upper age limit for UCAS tariff points, to include 2 full or the equivalent in UCAS tariff points, applications, although applicants who A-levels. In addition all applicants require to include 2 full A-levels. In addition all applicants require GCSE English at grade do not hold academic qualifications GCSE English at grade C or above C or above (or equivalent). equivalent to the entry requirements (or equivalent). will need to provide evidence of their BA Acting and Contemporary The Certificate in Higher Education suitability to undertake undergraduate Theatre must be successful at audition, (CertHE) must be successful at audition, study (for example, completion of and achieve CDD at A-level or the and achieve A-level grade E or equivalent qualification. In addition all applicants

Applying to East 15 as an undergraduate 15 East Applying to an Access course, Open University equivalent in UCAS tariff points, to include require GCSE English at grade C or above qualification or relevant work-based 2 full A-levels. In addition all applicants (or equivalent). experience). It is a requirement that require GCSE English at grade C or above all students on the BA Acting and (or equivalent). English language Community Theatre course are required BA Acting and Stage Combat must be Applicants with English as a second or to undertake an enhanced DBS check successful at physical workshop audition, other language may be asked to provide because they will come into contact and achieve CDD at A-level or the evidence of their ability to understand with children and/or vulnerable adults equivalent in UCAS tariff points, to include and express themselves in English for through a work placement undertaken as 2 full A-levels. In addition all applicants academic purposes. This is important part of their course. DBS checks must be require GCSE English at grade C or above to ensure that students derive full benefit completed prior to commencement of (or equivalent). from their studies and meet the Home the relevant work placement or activity. BA Physical Theatre must be successful Office Tier 4 visa requirements. Details Students are required to declare a criminal at physical workshop audition, and achieve of any additional requirements will be record at the time of applying for the CDD at A-level or the equivalent in made clear to successful applicants within course and/or prior to completing a DBS UCAS tariff points, to include 2 full their offer. check application. A student with a DBS A-levels. In addition all applicants require Undergraduate application East 15 East 2019 Prospectus disclosure certificate containing details of GCSE English at grade C or above a criminal record will be referred to the (or equivalent). All students who wish to be considered University’s DBS Review Panel who will BA World Performance must be for a place on an undergraduate determine whether or not the student can successful at audition, and achieve BBC programme at East 15 will need to apply be admitted to the course or permitted to at A-level, or the equivalent in UCAS tariff through both the East 15 direct application continue on the course. points, to include 2 full A-levels. In addition system and the online APPLY system organised by UCAS (the Universities Undergraduate entry requirements all applicants require GCSE English at grade C or above (or equivalent) and Colleges Admissions Service). www.east15.ac.uk BA Acting and BA Acting (International) Students are able to apply for more BA Stage and Production Management must be successful at audition and than one course, if interested. Full details must be successful at interview achieve CDD at A-level or the equivalent of the process can be obtained from: and technical aptitude workshop, in UCAS tariff points, to include 2 full www.ucas.com and achieve CDD at A-level or the A-levels. In addition all applicants require Applicants who do not apply through equivalent in UCAS tariff points, to include UCAS will not be eligible for UK GCSE English at grade C or above 2 full A-levels. In addition all applicants government funding, tuition fee support (or equivalent) require GCSE English at grade C or or university bursaries. above (or equivalent). Please note that applicants who are engaged in full-time education when applying to East 15 will need to obtain 43

a reference from their current school, relevant interests, time management and interviewed, not auditioned, and therefore college or university. Applicants who are suitability for the course. do not have to pay an audition fee. no longer in full-time education should Applicants are required to pay a non- For further, detailed information about try and obtain a reference from their refundable audition fee of £55. Details our admissions process and links to our previous educational establishment. If of the audition process and the 'terms online application system and UCAS, this is from more than three years ago a & conditions' for the audition fee are please visit: www.east15.ac.uk/how-to- reference from a current employer would available from our website. apply be appropriate. Referees should be able Students applying for BA Stage and to comment on an applicant’s attitude to Production Management and BA Creative work and/or study, reliability, enthusiasm, Producing (Theatre and Short Film) will be 44 Undergraduate auditions

the opportunity it provides for applicants (be it a piece of writing, music or visual to demonstrate their full potential. The art). Applicants may also take part in a audition lasts from four to six hours, group workshop.

Undergraduate auditions Undergraduate including opportunities to ask questions and engage with staff and current BA Acting and Stage Combat students. Candidates for all acting courses must BA Physical Theatre prepare two contrasting speeches Applicants may be asked to participate in • One speech from a Shakespearean or a physical workshop in which their fitness Jacobean play, lasting no more than one and agility will be assessed. and a half minutes • One speech from a contemporary BA World Performance (post 1970) play lasting no more Applicants will participate in a workshop than two minutes International applicants may submit and discussion group. audition material via the web if they BA Stage and Production cannot attend an audition in the UK. Applicants wishing to submit digital/online Management audition material will have the opportunity Applicants for BA Stage and Production to do so via our direct online application Management must attend an interview form. and technical aptitude workshop with East 15 also auditions internationally members of staff involved in technical each year. Dates, venues and availability theatre tuition at East 15. They will be can be found on our website: www.east15.ac.uk/how-to-apply/ asked about their interests in theatre, international-auditions. relevant experience and reasons for Please also note the additional audition applying.

East 15 East 2019 Prospectus requirements for each course. Students should bring with them a Auditions are required for all students portfolio of their work, demonstrating undertaking degree or certificate BA Acting their experience in technical theatre and schemes that involve acting. Auditions and interviews generally take BA Acting(International) will have to prepare a task which will be place at the campus where the programme BA Acting and Community Theatre discussed. is based, either the Loughton Campus or Certificate of Higher Education the Southend Campus. The auditions run BA Creative Producing in Theatre Arts (CertHE) www.east15.ac.uk from December through to June. (Theatre and Short Film) The audition day consists of a general Please prepare a third speech, lasting no Applicants for BA Creative Producing more than two minutes, that contrasts address, followed by a warm up and the (Theatre and Short Film) must attend an presentation of audition speeches. The well with the contemporary (post 1950) interview and will be asked about their audition groups will generally receive speech. Applicants may also take part in interests in creating stage, screen and feedback and suggestions during the a group workshop. audition. Each course recalls some students live event productions, their relevant for a specific workshop during the second BA Acting and experience and reasons for applying. half of the day (see below). Contemporary Theatre Students are invited to bring with them The East 15 audition process is very Please prepare a third piece that is a portfolio of their work, demonstrating thorough and has been commended for preferably something you have created their experience thus far. 45 46 www.east15.ac.uk Postgraduate study at East 15 47 Postgraduate study at East 15 East study at Postgraduate East 15 East 2019 Prospectus East 15 currently offers the following courses for postgraduate students:

Loughton Campus

• MA Acting

• MA/MFA Acting (International) www.east15.ac.uk

• MA/MFA Theatre Directing 48 MA Acting Loughton Campus MA Acting About MA Acting Acting classes promote the Third Term MA Acting is a challenging course that development of intuitive, creative The first part of term 3 focuses on media. gives students a personal methodology responses which are then framed by the The film project teaches skills of acting for based upon East 15’s unique practices. introduction of techniques to build the camera and provides material for the On one level it is a thoroughly character and play actions. Showings of actor’s show reel. The radio drama project practical, highly intensive, vocational short naturalistic scenes give opportunity teaches radio skills and microphone course. On another level, it is a thought- to integrate and apply technical voice technique. At the same time, students provoking, life-changing reflection on the and movement work in the context of an begin work on their MA Projects. The MA function and art of the actor – exploring acting exercise. Projects involve working in small groups techniques from some of Europe’s Second Term on self-generated projects, in which most influential practitioners as well as participants are given independence innovative professional practice from the In the second term, skills classes continue. and autonomy as company members. UK and internationally. The second term acting work begins with These are performed in East 15’s Corbett an intensive Shakespeare module which Theatre or in other venues as appropriate. Applicant information develops and strengthens the integration The second half of term 3 sees a full MA Acting is a specialist course of one of technical skills with acting technique. production of an ensemble text-based academic year with additional work on This is followed by the Research play. marketing students to the industry in a Performance Project in which students Showcase. Participants will need discipline engage with specific time in history and Showcase and motivation to work at an advanced experience East 15’s distinctive Living In September students return for a level. Beyond these the requirements are History Project. short intensive rehearsal preparation abundant energy, insatiable curiosity and a This signature project is a long-form, before the Industry Showcase, held in a robust sense of humour. non-performative improvisation in which Central London venue for agents, casting Some students may already possess the actor can, through rigorous ‘actor- directors, film, television and theatre a university degree (not necessarily in centric’ research and a residential period directors and other industry professionals. a related discipline) whilst others will away from the campus environment, have established themselves in other experience and identify with the practical After East 15 and visceral realities, as well as the career paths and now seek to change the On completion of the MA Acting psychological and emotional attributes of direction of their lives towards that of a programme, participants are qualified as the character. professional actor. actors and recognised as graduates of Subsequent to this, participants East 15 East 2019 Prospectus This course also attracts professional an East 15 training. They are equipped devise a studio performance based actors who feel the need to reflect on to pursue acting careers in theatre, film, on their intellectual, emotional and their practice, extend their range, refresh TV and radio. Graduates also have an sensory experience. They are also given their creativity, increase their professional understanding of how to create their own responsibilities in stage management contacts and gain academic recognition work, including how to form companies and production to enhance their overall for their skills. and gain funding, as well as a variety of understanding of what it is to make methodologies for developing their own theatre and to prepare them for the First Term artistic practice.

www.east15.ac.uk realities of the industry. In the first term, there are classes in Graduates are encouraged to remain Towards the end of term 2 participants movement, voice and singing, as well as in touch with the school, to watch the begin to research and develop their MA contextual studies. The entire programme development of succeeding students project and begin to work in recorded of teaching across the course coheres and to benefit from informal support media. to lead the actor from an exploration of and mentoring as they continue in their personal self to that of the body in time careers. and space and from there to the creation of character and the realisation of text. 49

Emily Taylor During every project I have been particularly with the support of the course guided by the course tutors, who have leaders. More importantly the “work” From the moment encouraged me to explore their field is fun – head into Epping Forest during of my audition, I in a way that best suits my own way of term time and you’re likely to find at least knew that East learning, giving me the toolkit to create one or two of us up a tree developing a 15 was the drama work I didn’t think I was capable of. The script! Spending time in play, curiosity and school I wanted difference I’ve noticed in my own abilities exploration is a true delight, and at the end to train at. Being since the start of my time at East 15 has of the year you are able to head out into part of the MA been huge and I love putting new practices Acting group to the test during our projects – including the industry, ready for the career that your is a joy; each of us brings our own the East 15 speciality, Living History! training on this esteemed course at East background, previous experience As you would expect from any one 15 enables you to have. Jump in, and see and creative mind to the mix, making year training course the learning curve is where adventure can take you! each day exciting and eclectic. steep, but the work load is manageable, 50 MA/MFA Acting (International) Loughton Campus

About MA/MFA Acting First Term (International) The first term includes the module Acting This is a unique professional course Technique based on the Stanislavsky that has been designed specifically for approach, which addresses the key overseas students physical and vocal skills for acting, MA/MFA Acting (International) enabling students who are coming MA/MFA Acting (International) Acting MA/MFA offers the full spectrum of acting skills, from a variety of training traditions to including voice, movement and singing, identify and achieve the required level of last 50 years. The module extends and approaches to rehearsal and public preparation for the subsequent modules. and applies Realist acting techniques, performances. It draws on existing It also allows tutors to make a diagnostic and includes a study of theories and practice but supplements this work with assessment of students’ skills and assumptions underlying Realism. specific teaching and learning processes potential, and identify and implement any A module on Contemporary UK especially suitable for overseas students. additional work in these core areas. Texts introduces students to key The course focuses on advanced The module on Shakespeare enables contemporary texts from the UK theatre, practical acting skills and also takes in the students to develop their understanding and to scripts from the twentieth- study of Shakespeare and other classical of the meaning and mechanics of century that continue to have a place traditions. Shakespeare’s text. It will introduce in and to influence contemporary UK The MA runs for I year on a full-time students to specific vocal techniques theatre. It allows students to extend basis and the MFA for 2 years. MA and for the performance of Renaissance their vocal, physical, and analytical skills MFA students take the same modules in text and allow them to consider how in the creation of roles that reflect a their first year. In their second year, MFA a range of archaic and contemporary current cultural context and offers an students work within a repertory company performance settings influence the actor’s opportunity to create and perform a format to present a range of fully-staged and director’s approaches to Shakespeare complete role in the context of a fully productions in each of the three terms, in performance. In addition, students staged play in East 15’s Corbett Theatre. followed by a written dissertation or will study a range of analytical and practical project. experimental approaches to script that Third Term

East 15 East 2019 Prospectus Applicant information are useful to the actor and there will be MA students work on a written opportunities to develop students’ clarity, dissertation or a practical devised MA/MFA Acting (International) offers accuracy, and expressiveness in speaking monologue project. The year usually regular classes, during the year, for English Renaissance text. The Shakespeare culminates in a full length production first-language and English second-language module normally includes a two-week highlighting the MA leaving students. students. The English first language workshop at Shakespeare’s Globe, where students (USA, Canada, Australia etc) they have an opportunity to perform on Second Year (MFA only) will concentrate on accent/dialect and the Globe stage. First Term

www.east15.ac.uk Received Pronunciation (RP), while the second-language students will focus more Second Term In the second year, students work as an acting ensemble. They first work on a on accent, rhythm, stress and diction. The second term includes the Character written dissertation or practical devised All students will participate in public and Scene Study module which extends monologue project and then perform in performances during their study. By the the work begun in Acting Technique. shows aimed at young audiences in East end of the course, graduates will be able It uses a Realist approach to acting as 15’s Corbett Theatre. to work in accurate English dialect and be its base, allowing students to pursue able to perform sophisticated texts with longer and more challenging acting Second Term confidence. explorations. Scene work is undertaken The ensemble perform in productions on scripts by, for example, Ibsen, directed by outside professional directors Strindberg, and Realist texts from the currently working in the UK theatre 51

industry to showcase them in a central space to explore a variety of methods and London Theatre venue. A module on Film, Kimberly genres. I have achieved goals at East 15 Radio and Voiceover teaches the students Hoffman acting for camera and microphone that I never thought possible, most notably I knew of East devising new work. techniques, providing them with showreel 15 Acting School and voicereel material. Not only is the programme incredible, before I auditioned but it is located in a city with great at the URTAs in Third Term respect for theatre. Time spent on most San Francisco, The ensemble perform in productions weekends seeing high-quality work on and but I never directed by outside professional directors off-campus definitely contributed to my thought I would currently working in the UK theatre education. industry to showcase them in a second be accepted to a school “across the pond.” Much to my surprise, I had Since graduation, I took two original central London Theatre venue a callback the same day and was plays to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, After East 15 formally accepted a few weeks later. one of which I wrote. I am pursuing my Attending East 15 was the greatest dreams knowing that I have a strong Graduates will have a comprehensive, decision I ever made. The workload was foundation from an exceptional school professional training that will enable them intense but manageable, made so by and a network of great friends around to pursue professional careers in theatre a professional faculty and passionate the world. Long story short, go to East 15. and related professions in an increasingly students who helped to create a safe Don’t even hesitate. global industry. 52 MA/MFA Theatre Directing Loughton Campus

About MA/MFA Theatre Directing British Drama, Comedy, This is a unique and renowned course Musical Theatre and designed specifically for those who are Opera, Physical Theatre, already practising as or who wish to Brecht, Techniques MA/MFA Theatre Directing Theatre MA/MFA establish themselves as professional of Adaptation, theatre directors. Improvisation and MA/MFA Theatre Directing is open Devising Techniques, to emerging theatre directors from Contemporary Irish the UK and to students from around Drama, Rehearsal the world. Teaching is by a wide range Processes and of leading directors and professional Workshops, practitioners from the UK and overseas. Collaboration with The programme benefits from its close Designers, Attachment ties with the London theatre world, which (Assistant Director), provides training expertise of the highest The Artistic Director, calibre and the professional networks that Commedia dell’Arte and are vital to launching a career. Directing for Camera. East 15 also runs some modules Overseas modules overseas, most recently in Moscow, Thailand and Bali, involving specialist in Bali and Thailand practical study in an alternative cultural include: World Theatre environment. and Theatre of the Theatre Directing workshop with Mehmet Ergen The MA runs for one year on a full-time East. In Moscow, at basis and the MFA for 24 months. For the the GITIS Institute, MA, you take four modules during three modules include: Stanislavskian consecutive terms, followed by a three- Acting Methodology, Meyerhold and “The director training at East month period of independent study, at the Biomechanics, Michael Chekhov. East 15 East 2019 Prospectus 15 is open to the needs of end of which you present your Director’s Production Workbook (or, alternatively, Applicant information its students and yet eager your MA Dissertation). MA/MFA Theatre Directing is open to maintain rigour. Without For the MFA, running over 24 to applicants with a background in dictating a particular path months, you take eight modules during theatre directing or related fields and six consecutive terms, followed by is specifically tailored to those seeking of inquiry, it encourages independent study that results in a fully professional development in this area. the students to enquire www.east15.ac.uk resourced practical project at one of East Study is full time but some module 15’s spaces or in a London theatre (or, and to do so as deep and choices enable periods of time away to alternatively, an MFA Dissertation). as wide as they are able. It Each year you have the opportunity to pursue professional theatre work. encourages questioning, and choose four modules out of the seven or After East 15 eight different options that we offer every original, personal thinking, year. The menu of modules rotates on a Former students now work as regular basis but always covers a range professional freelance directors, run both of which are essential of directorial practice that is unrivalled in companies and venues as Artistic to being a good director.” its diversity and will include several of the Directors or teach directing in universities following: Shakespeare, Contemporary and conservatoires around the world. Dominic Dromgoole 53

Mark Duncan The course emphasis is on launching acting and directing courses that run at directing students and graduates into East 15. The focus is on practical directing What attracted the professional world of theatre and the projects backed up with critical analysis me to the MA/MFA school spearheads many opportunities for and in-depth research alongside excellent Theatre Directing networking, collaborations, placements, advice, insight and first-hand information at East 15 was the enlightening sessions with practising from the main lecturers, guest lecturers, contemporary and international directors and writers, assistant director directors and playwrights; all with extensive focus of both positions and other exciting possibilities. professional careers. the school and The first-rate choice of modules My time at East 15 has been an amazing the course. I knew I wanted to go to includes contemporary British theatre opportunity to form alliances with like- this leading British drama school to plus options of training abroad in Moscow minded people, make directing projects really hone my directing skills and or Bali; working alongside international happen and take a leap towards fulfilling a I was not mistaken in my choice. and British students from the different greater vision. 54 Applying to East 15 as a postgraduate

All postgraduate applicants to East 15 previous experience. online application. Candidates may also be must demonstrate their suitability for MA/MFA Theatre Directing requires invited for interview but most applications entry. a successful written application, plus will be decided on the basis of the written Postgraduate applicants are assessed a first degree of upper second class application. on their experience (both academic standard or equivalent or suitable and practical) and potential for success. previous life experience. A CV or Resume English language It would be unlikely that someone under (recommended) and a portfolio of work Applicants with English as a second or the age of 21 will have gained the requisite (optional) may be submitted as part of an other language may be asked to provide academic qualifications evidence of their ability to

Applying to East 15 as a postgraduate 15 East Applying to required for entry. understand and express There is no upper age themselves in English for limit for applications, academic purposes. This although applicants is important to ensure who do not hold that students derive full academic qualifications benefit from their studies equivalent to the entry and meet the Home Office requirements will need Tier 4 visa requirements. to provide evidence Details of any additional of their suitability to requirements will be undertake postgraduate made clear to successful study (for example, applicants within their completion of an Access offer. course, Open University qualification or relevant Your postgraduate work-based experience). application All applicants for All students must East 15’s postgraduate complete the East 15 East 15 East 2019 Prospectus courses (apart from MA/ online application form. MFA Theatre Directing) Applicants to will be expected to postgraduate Acting undertake a successful courses (excluding Theatre audition. Directing) are required to pay a non-refundable Postgraduate entry audition fee of £55. Details

www.east15.ac.uk requirements of the audition process and MA Acting and MA/MFA the 'terms & conditions' Acting (International) for the audition fee are require a successful available from our website. live audition or digital Further details about audition (via Skype, our admissions process, YouTube or alternative how to apply and the online platform), plus online application form can a first degree of upper be found at our website: second class standard www.east15.ac.uk/how- or equivalent or suitable to-apply 55 56 Postgraduate auditions

MA Acting and MA/MFA Acting can be obtained from our website: • One speech from a Shakespearean (International) www.east15.ac.uk/how-to-apply/ or Jacobean play, lasting not more than one and a half minutes Postgraduate auditions Postgraduate international-auditions. Auditions are required for all students • One speech from a contemporary undertaking degrees that involve acting. The audition day consists of a general (post 1970) play lasting no more Auditions generally take place at the address, followed by a warm up and the than two minutes Loughton Campus between December presentation of audition speeches. The and June. audition groups will generally receive MA/MFA Theatre Directing International applicants may audition feedback and suggestions during the Applicants will be assessed on the basis via an online link (eg. YouTube/Vimeo) if audition. of their written application, although they can not attend an audition in the UK. The audition lasts from four to six they may be called for interview or Applicants can provide links to digital hours, including opportunities to ask given a telephone or Skype interview. audition materials within their online questions and engage with staff and application form. current students. East 15 also auditions internationally Candidates for all acting courses must each year. Dates, venues and availability prepare two contrasting speeches: East 15 East 2019 Prospectus www.east15.ac.uk 57 58 Summer Courses

East 15’s 2018 Summer Courses run adapt truthful character for film, television Audition Technique (Classical and at the Loughton Campus. They are and radio. The programme will also Contemporary Speeches, Singing and aimed at anyone aged 17 and over: be cover protocols, the on-camera audition Voice) they student, teacher or experienced process, sight-reading a camera and radio This course aims to demystify the audition performer, who wishes to extend script, what to expect on set and the process and is aimed particularly at those their existing talents and who are opportunity to film short scenes during considering drama school. You are guided looking for ways to creatively engage the week. There will also be opportunities in how to take full advantage of your with character development and to learn how to self-edit, to tell the story audition slots. You spend time working on performance skills. and influence the audience. how to select the right audition material A good level and understanding of for you, how to confidently perform English language is required to fully East 15 and the Theatre Workshop speeches (classical and contemporary)

Summer and Part Time Courses and Part Summer appreciate and enjoy the courses. The Tradition (Imaginary Worlds, Physical and songs and prepare yourself for a courses are taught by the School’s Action and Laban) range of audition scenarios. By developing experienced resident staff, using the East 15 graduates are known for their skills and gaining knowledge, you leave approaches to learning drawn from the full ability to quickly respond to any acting the course with the confidence to time courses, that have made East 15 such situation and to take risks in their acting make the most of any audition day. (If a success. choices. This course offers an introduction you subsequently apply to East 15 the The Campus centres on Hatfields, into a selection of the training methods, following year, the cost of an audition fee a Queen Anne Dower House, set in a using some of Joan Littlewood and will be waived.) glorious seven-acre site on the outskirts Theatre Workshop’s techniques. It blends of London. It provides excellent rehearsal Stanislavksi (reality before theatricality, Tailored Summer Schools for and performance facilities including the given circumstances and back stories), Corbett Theatre, built in a Medieval Tithe Actions (from the external action to the International Student Groups Barn, all set amidst the natural beauty of internal thought and psychological world), Would you like to bring your student our gardens and lawns. and Laban (Space, Body, Dynamics and group to East 15 for a Summer School? Each of our 2018 our week-long Relationships) in a 21st Century industry For groups of 12 or more we can tailor courses will run for six days. For the most context. a course to fit your needs. This can up-to- date information (including links include any of the areas above or any to the on-line booking form and on-line Week 2 – Monday 23 July additional topics you would like covered. payments) please visit the East 15 website to Saturday 28 July Courses can last between one and four at: http://www.east15.ac.uk/course- Acting in English (for International weeks and include London theatre category/summer-courses/ students) Language, Text, Voice and visits. Courses can take place at either East 15 East 2019 Prospectus Full fees are £490 or each course. Song our Southend or our Loughton campus. There are automatic discounts for early This is course is aimed at students for For further information please contact booking and if students mix and match whom English is not their first language, [email protected] course bookings across two weeks. Further whether or not they have advanced or discounts exist for East 15 Alumni and less confident proficiency. It will offer members of Equity. a variety of actor’s strategies to clarify thoughts, make the thoughts the actor’s

www.east15.ac.uk Week 1 – Monday 16 July own, and lift the images in the thoughts to Saturday 21 July off the page and on to the stage. It will Acting for Screen and Radio Techniques encourage students to connect with text This course explores the differences as assertively as they might do in their between acting for stage and screen. It is home language and offer a variety of aimed at those who wish to broaden their plays and speeches to prepare. Students media skills and gain confidence in front of will work through a variety of general the camera and microphone. Working in voice and musical warm-ups, and improve small groups and pairs, students will look their ability to act through song, learning at the actor’s relationship with the camera appropriate vocal qualities and how to (particularly eye-line) and learn how to effectively communicate lyrics. 59 60 Money matters – Undergraduate

website about the current UK Home Office requirements at: www.essex.ac.uk/ ug17/immigration Money matters Money Previous study If you have previously studied at a higher education institution, this may affect the amount of financial support available to you. To find out more about this, or if you have any other questions, contact our Student Funding Team via e-mail at: [email protected] Cost of living Beyond the academic fees you will pay for your programme, the other main costs are living expenses. Where you choose to live will play a big part in determining how much money you will need while studying. An estimate of living costs for a typical undergraduate student can be found at https://www1.essex.ac.uk/fees-and- funding/money/cost-living/ The figures are intended as a guide and will vary depending on individual lifestyle and circumstances. UK and EU students to be confirmed, but as a guide, our Scholarships and bursaries undergraduate fees for 2018-2019 were Taking out a loan can feel like a big We offer financial packages to support £9,250 per year. financial commitment, so we want to students, including those from lower make sure you know exactly how it works. International students income households. Additional support for The UK Government provides UK and EU UK students includes bursaries for care

East 15 East 2019 Prospectus Our fees for the academic year 2019- students with a tuition fee loan, meaning leavers, students with refugee status, and 2020 are yet to be confirmed, but as you do not need to pay tuition fees students from lower income households a guide, our fees for 2018-2019 were upfront or during your course. studying on a year abroad, or doing an £14.020 per year. industrial or voluntary placement. If you are a UK student you can also If you would like advice on whether you Use our online scholarship finder to take out a maintenance loan, which helps would be classified as an overseas student search for funding opportunities at: cover living expenses while you are at in relation to your tuition fees, contact https://www1.essex.ac.uk/fees-and- university. You only start repaying your our Undergraduate Admissions Office via funding/scholarship-finder/ www.east15.ac.uk loan once your income reaches a certain e-mail at: [email protected] level, and if your income drops below this, The UK Council for International you’ll stop making repayments – so you Student Affairs (UKCISA) can also give you don’t need to worry about not keeping up. advice and information on fee statuses. If you are an EU student, we encourage Visit their website for more information you to research financial support offered at: www.ukcisa.org.uk in your home country. National grants As part of the visa application process, or loans may be provided by your you will be asked to produce evidence of government or local careers service. your ability to pay tuition fees and to cover Our UK and EU tuition fees for the living expenses during the course. There academic year 2019-2020 are yet is more information on the University 61 62 Money matters – Postgraduate

An estimate of living costs for a typical postgraduate student can be found at https://www1.essex.ac.uk/fees-and- Money matters Money funding/money/cost-living/ The figures are intended as a guide and will vary depending on individual lifestyle and circumstances. PG loans If you’re a home or EU student and looking to study a Masters degree you may be entitled to a government-backed loan. Course eligibility and residency criteria will apply. For more information visit: https://www1.essex.ac.uk/fees-and- funding/masters/loans/ www.gov.uk/postgraduate-loan Scholarships New postgraduate students who have accepted a place at East 15 will automatically be sent details of scholarships and bursaries with their application form. To find out more and to check your eligibility please visit: https://www1.essex.ac.uk/fees-and- funding/masters/scholarships/ Alternative sources of funding East 15 East 2019 Prospectus To help you navigate the world of for Studies (CAS), or show proof that you Fees alternative funding we’ve taken out a are being sponsored by a body recognised Our UK and EU tuition fees for the subscription to The Alternative Guide to by our University. academic year 2019-2020 are yet to be Postgraduate Funding Online. This vast confirmed but, as a guide, our fees for Student visa requirements database will give you information on 2018-2019 were between £12,650 and alternative funding sources, including: As part of the visa application process, £13.755. For International students they studentships, charitable trusts and grants, you’ll be asked to produce evidence of www.east15.ac.uk were between £13,800 and £15,175. private corporate sponsorship, research your ability to pay tuition fees and to councils, learned societies and more. Payment of tuition fees cover living expenses. To access the guide you’ll need a Your fees can be paid in full at the start www.essex.ac.uk/pg17/visa password. Email us at pgadmit@essex. of the academic year, or in three equal ac.uk and we will send this on to you: instalments in October, January and April. Cost of living www.postgraduate-funding.com/gateway If you are a non-EEA student requiring our Beyond the academic fees you will pay sponsorship for a Tier 4 visa application, for your programme, the other main costs you must pay your first instalment as a are living expenses. Where you choose to non-refundable deposit in order to be live will play a big part in determining how assigned your Confirmation of Acceptance much money you will need while studying. 63 64 University of Essex

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East 15 Acting School became part of We rank second in the UK for student the University of Essex on 1 September satisfaction. THE and QS World Rankings 2000. Subsequently, students at East place us in the top 2% of world universities. 15 have also become University of Essex The University has more than 11,000 students and receive University of students at three campuses in Essex, and Essex degrees. partnerships with education institutions The University of Essex celebrated its across the region. We offer a broad 50th anniversary in 2014, and in those 50 spread of subjects across 18 academic

East 15 East 2019 Prospectus years has become one of the UK’s leading departments and schools, with particular academic institutions. Essex is ranked ninth peaks of excellence in the social sciences in the UK for the quality of its research, and humanities. and in the top 20 universities in the world The University’s original campus is that are less than 50 years old. Essex is an situated in an attractive 200-acre parkland internationally-oriented, research-intensive estate on the outskirts of Britain’s oldest university with a commitment to excellence recorded town, Colchester, whilst its in research and research-led teaching, newest campus is located in the heart www.east15.ac.uk to the personal development of all its of the county’s most famous seaside students, and to offering an outstanding town, Southend-on-Sea, on the south campus-based student experience. Essex coast. Both campuses are served Essex is the most internationally by excellent transport links, with rail, road diverse campus-based university in Britain, and air links close by and journey times with 40 per cent of students coming from to London being 70 and 50 minutes 135 different countries outside the UK. respectively. Further information

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UK International Greenwich and Lewisham Young Central Academy of Drama, Beijing People’s Theatre The Russian University of Theatre Arts King's Head Theatre (GITIS), Moscow, Russia London Bubble Indonesian Arts Institute (ISI), Bali, Indonesia Regents Park Open Air Theatre Nanjing University of the Arts, China Shakespeare’s Globe Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA), Singapore Erasmus The Norwegian Acting Institute (NSKI), Institut del Teatre, ESAD (School Oslo, Norway of Dramatic Arts) Barcelona, Spain Shanghai Theatre Academy, China National University of Theatre and Film I.L. Srinakharinwirot University, Caragiale, Bucharest, Romania Bangkok, Thailand East 15 Acting School is part of the University of Essex.

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