Performance MA/MFA

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

You will 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.

Choose Your Pathway

This programme empowers you to develop new creative practices and refine your existing performance skills. Through a combination of core shared modules and specialist pathways, you will engage with key techniques and approaches across a diverse range of disciplines:

• Actor-Musicianship
• Theatre for Children and Young People
• Queer Performance
• Curating

We understand postgraduate performance training as an opportunity to expand and extend your creative and critical viewpoints. Our flexible structure allows you to tailor your learning experience - you may choose to focus on a single pathway or explore multiple areas as your interests evolve.

You will study alongside students from a variety of disciplines, engaging collaboratively across shared modules while pursuing your specialist focus. This interdisciplinary environment encourages experimentation, dialogue, and exchange across forms and practices.