Prospectus 2019 Prospectus East 15 Acting School 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.