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BA (Hons) Acting

  • Duration: 3–5 years full-time
  • Placement year: Optional 1 year
  • Course code: W410 (UCAS)
  • Institution code: A66 (UCAS)
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Overview

BA (Hons) Acting is your introduction to the performance industry. You'll hone your skills to stage and screen, working collaboratively as a part of AUB Productions and taking on roles in professionally produced student films.

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Designed for students with a passion for performance.

We'll show you what it takes to turn natural talent into a sustainable career and we will support you to help make your ambitions become reality.

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Develop the skills needed for creating performances in a multimedia world.

You'll work with other students on projects and films and your independent voice as an emerging artist will be developed and nurtured as you progress.

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Discover from recent graduate Lou about what it’s like to study BA (Hons) Acting at AUB. Also, alumni Elliot Warren and Jes Gislason discuss their journeys on the course and on working in the industry.

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Student Stories

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Choosing AUB over a conservatoire: creative freedom and collaboration

When I first started looking for acting courses, I assumed I’d end up at a conservatoire or drama school...
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A conversation with Robin Gee Smith – artist, performer and drag extraordinaire

AUB has given me more skills than I thought possible. First year laid a technical...
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Darcy Watkins – "Being surrounded by so many creative people, my love for my craft has strengthened"

My experience at AUB has been extremely fun and memorable – I am thankful...
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Mitsuki Kawase – “AUB can become a second home for you”

To anyone out there thinking about studying abroad: AUB is such a wonderful place for international students...
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Kasandra Marie Georgi – “Follow your intuition and you will land exactly where you are meant to be”

Theatre is often a second home for those looking to find an escape from their reality...
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Dan Price – How AUB bridges the gap between training and the real world

I have had firsthand experience in student productions, with industry professionals, and even landed my first film set experience...
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Rebecca Mckinnon – “It is never too late to start something and make your heart and soul happy”

Fight Captain is my top achievement (at this moment!) at AUB – being able to help guide...
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Owen Hudson on performing in AUB Productions’ Romeo and Juliet

My time at AUB has allowed me to develop a creative process whilst rehearsing alongside techniques I use while performing...
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Nicole Elizabeth Phillip – "Acting taught me how to be vulnerable"

My passion for acting has only grown and after the three years that I’ve been here – especially during my third year....
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