Drama

Performance is in your DNA

You’re an extrovert. There’s no such thing as OTT. You’ll stay late in to the night to make sure your production is perfect. You’re proud. You’re fierce. You’re emotional. Theatre is a culture and you’re firmly in it, whether you’re behind the lights in technical, or in the spotlight on stage.

Our courses

We offer BA Drama as a single honours. If joint honours are more your thing check out BA Drama and Literature and BA Film and Drama.

Theatre at Essex is revolutionary

We believe drama should never be less than truthful, inspirational and life-changing.

Our courses will refine your approach to theatre-making. Through research and practice you'll explore and critique traditional and contemporary dramatists and practitioners from across the globe. Your studies will develop your understanding of the purpose and impact of performance.

We offer MA Theatre Practice and MA Scriptwriting. Both are based in our Department of Literature, Film and Theatre Studies.

MA Acting is based at East 15.

Learn about our teaching and assessment plans, on the department pages.

Create your masterpiece

Theatre Studies and Drama at Essex is a unique conservatoire of practitioners who offer talented research students supervision in a number of specialisms.

We're here to guide and nurture you to become directors, writers, artistic directors, theatre practitioners and performers. 

Our campus theatre, the Lakeside Theatre, is a major venue for professional touring companies, and it also plays host to new theatre brought to the stage by our students. 

Expertise and supervision

To find out more about us read our biographies and then use our research finder to find a supervisor.