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Full time
1 year
SEP-25
MA - Master of Arts
Music Performance / Playing
MA Writer-Performer-Producer helps you to push the boundaries of comedy writing and performance, and develop the skills required to create and perform your own, innovative work.
The course has been created as a stepping stone into commercial performing arts careers as advised by industry organisations that are part of the new talent supply chain. MA Writer-Performer-Producer teaches students how to develop their own content by writing scripts they can star in, whether it is a short film for narrowcast, a half-hour TV comedy pilot, an hour-long TV drama or a feature length play or film.
You will be taught across your units by industry professionals within broadcast departments, production houses and agency networks. They will work with you to build and hone your skills and develop your self-penned performance work so youre industry-ready by the end of the course. Youll benefit from guest lectures and workshops from a range of leading industry professionals: established writer/performers, producers, agents, directors and commissioners.
This unit will develop your skills as a live performer, focusing on playful and improvisational approaches for the creation of new performance and characters. Studio workshops examine and cultivate students’ approaches to character development, fostering a playful, creative and supportive environment in which to test new work.
Performances are tested at a series of public scratch nights that run alongside the unit, giving performers an opportunity to try out and develop original performance work in front of audiences. By the end of this unit, you will have developed a 10-minute solo character performance through a combination of workshop sessions, scratch nights, tutor and peer feedback and independent study.
This unit develops your practical knowledge of contemporary industry practices and the marketplace, honing the fundamental technical and creative storytelling skills to be a successful freelance comedy writer/performer. You’ll learn how to best showcase your work - how to win at securing existing opportunities, but also take control and create your own opportunities. Verbal pitching skills will also be developed on this unit.
Starting from scratch, this unit develops the fundamental storytelling and scriptwriting skills you’ll need to be a professional writer/performer.
The skills developed on this unit will enable you to create and deliver a scripted narrative, starring a nuanced central character, ideal for you to play. You’ll learn everything you need to develop a scripted narrative idea from scratch. You’ll learn the technical side of writing – script layout – and how to effectively employ improvisation to make your script as strong and winning as possible.
Building on the live performance skills developed across Semester 1, and utilising sketch writing skills just learned in unit 3, this unit equips students with the skills to film, edit, and share character performance across video and audio platforms.
Drawing together the skills and portfolio developed across the previous 2 semesters, students will work towards developing original performance work for a showcase alongside an extended essay that interrogates the creation of the work. The core performance work can be a further development of characters and writing already created as part of the course or something brand new. Their final major project will be a mix of written script with either live or pre-recorded performance.
For this course (per year)
£14,000
For this course (per year)
£29,990
The standard minimum entry requirements for this course are:
Applicants who do not meet these course entry requirements may still be considered in exceptional cases. The course team will consider each application that demonstrates additional strengths and alternative evidence. This might, for example, be demonstrated by:
University of the Arts London (UAL) is one of the world’s leading and most prestigious arts universities, maintaining an internationally renowned list of alumni. Located in London, it is ideally positioned for students wishing to study a postgraduate qualification and gain valuable connections to a thriving creative sector. UAL ranks in the top 30 universities in the UK (Complete University Guide, 2025). With modern campus sites spread across...more