Performance MFA

An interdisciplinary and collaborative programme that embraces experimentation while preparing you for the future of performance. Choose your specialist pathway to develop a deeper understanding of your area of interest

Rose Bruford College’s Performance MA/MFA welcomes those interested in making, thinking, or writing about contemporary performance in diverse contexts.

You’ll explore interdisciplinary performance practices across a range of fields, centring innovative performance and research methodologies that draw on socially engaged and radical approaches – from education to nightlife, theatre to activism, immersive to experimental, and beyond.

This programme will empower you to develop new creative practices and refine your existing performance skills. Through core Shared Modules and Specialist Pathways, you’ll engage with key techniques and approaches across a diverse range of disciplines: Actor-Musicianship, Theatre for Children and Young People, Queer Performance, and Curating. Postgraduate performance training is an opportunity to expand and extend your creative and critical viewpoints. Our flexible structure enables you to tailor your learning experience – choose to focus on a single Pathway or explore multiple areas as your interests evolve. You’ll study alongside students from a variety of disciplines, engaging collaboratively across shared modules whilst pursuing your specialist focus. This interdisciplinary environment encourages experimentation, dialogue, and exchange across forms and practices.

Guided by world-leading experts and practitioners, this programme will challenge you to engage critically with cutting edge contemporary creative industries. You’ll develop your skills across a range of settings and contexts, gaining the confidence to shape and respond to the multiple futures of performance.

Ultimately, the Performance MA/MFA will support you to further develop your creative practice, enhance your professional opportunities, or continue into advanced research and study.

Applicants for Masters programmes will be expected to have a good undergraduate degree in a related subject area. The College also encourages applications from those without formal qualifications who may be accepted based on professional experience.