Do you want to be a director, performer, practitioner, producer, writer, researcher, facilitator, teacher or lecturer? If so, then find your place with us in the world of drama by developing performance work and undertaking projects that allow you to explore your creative identity. We'll give you the performance, critical and creative skills that you need to thrive in whatever your chosen career.
Find out what our Drama students get up to via Bath Spa Live.
Our next virtual Open Day will be held on Saturday 12 June for both Undergraduate and Postgraduate courses.
You’ll be able to explore the range of courses on offer, chat with academic staff and learn more about life at Bath Spa.
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You'll benefit from a wealth of teaching and rehearsal facilities on our Newton Park campus, including our University Theatre, the central hub of our Drama courses.
Facilities
Our students have entered into a diverse array of careers, and we're proud of each and every one of them.
Fields include directing, acting, media, drama therapy, teaching, lecturing, arts administration, as well as setting up individual theatre and production companies.
Tempted by two courses? Our combined degree courses mean you don’t have to limit yourself to one programme. You could pair Drama with anything from Biology to Business and Management.
Combined courses
"The Drama lecturers were committed to giving us the tools we needed to thrive in further education and become well-rounded, creative and collaborative Drama practitioners."
Bethan Clothier, BA (Hons) Drama alumni
Drama Fest is an exciting annual fringe festival at our University Theatre that features works produced by final year Drama students.
Performances can include devised theatre, physical and visual theatre, stand-up comedy, processional theatre, immersive theatre, text-based drama, Shakespearean theatre, installations and more.
Previously 9 to 18 April
Starting in 1983, this hilarious comedy spanning over three decades, shows three young women come together to experience the complex dynamics of female friendship.
Di is an athletic closet lesbian coming to terms with being openly gay, Viv is an outspoken perfectionist striving towards a career in the fashion industry and Rose is a sexually ambitious artist with more enthusiasm for “thing” than her degree.
The world around you is an illusion.
Welcome to Madame Irma’s Maison de l'Illusion, a modern reimagining of Jean Genet’s The Balcony (1956), a play that accuses our world of being nothing more than a brothel, and we its eager clients.
Five teens in the town of Whitby, North Yorkshire find themselves immersed in a fantasy world of Dungeons and Dragons, separated in background and social status but brought together by the camaraderie of adventure.
An unlikely friendship occurs, surviving through tragedy and hardship, helping the teens to cope with the harsh reality they reside in.
4 October 2019
20 March 2019
"There is a great mix of performance and theory within this course, that will give you an excellent grounding within the subject for whichever field you go into - whether that be teaching, performing or directing."
Charlotte Stroud, BA (Hons) Drama alumni
BA (Hons) Drama
BA (Hons) Drama (Musical Theatre)
BA (Hons) Creative Writing and Drama
BA (Hons) Drama and English Literature
Miranda
Lundskaer-Nielsen
Helena
Enright
Thomas
Kampe
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Mark
Langley
Roy
Connolly
Sita
Calvert-Ennals
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Gary
Cassidy
Andrew
Cowie
Simon
Crispin
Laura
Purcell-Gates
Olivia
Turnbull
Alice
Barton
Pippa
Thornton
Roger
Apfelbaum
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Gordon
Kemp