Postgraduate Prospectus

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Bayan Shbib, West Bank,
Palestine – MA Acting
International ’11
Throughout my year at the
Loughton Campus, I gained
an amazing array of techniques
and skills, as well as an enriching
human experience that involved
cultural bridging, leadership, conflict
resolution and a profound transformative
self-development.
I found each of my classes to be a
challenging place of cultural understanding,
somewhere we could abandon our
judgments about each other’s ethnicities
and work together. Languages and
traditions enabled a very colourful
experience of dialogue and interaction
between us. This diversity was a
reinforcing tool in helping us all to
become authentic actors. MA Acting
(International) taught me to see the world
differently; I have learnt that we are all
connected and affected by each other.
I am grateful to East 15 for giving me
this freedom as an actress.
Since graduating, I have been invited
back to UK to work at the National
Theatre. I feel inspired by my
international classroom, tutors
and friends, and am able to bring
the international discourse I
experienced at East 15 to a
wider audience.
Graduate
profile
essential to the role of the independent
filmmaker. You also acquire skills in
production management, the business
of the producer, and operating within the
collaborative context which characterises
this industry.
Our MA Filmmaking should appeal if
you have limited filmmaking experience
but a background (through education,
personal/work experience or both) in
work relevant to this area.
MA/MFA Theatre Directing
Our unique course will interest you if
you already are, or wish to become, a
professional theatre director. You study
individual modules, lasting approximately
four to six weeks each, and we run some
modules overseas, recently in Moscow,
Thailand and Bali. We ensure there
is a strong international focus with
teaching by a wide range of directors
and professional practitioners.
Our MA Theatre Directing runs for
twelve months on a full-time basis and our
MFA Theatre Directing for 24 months. If
you are an MFA student, then you take a
second year in which you undertake further
modules and direct a short production or
write a dissertation. Graduates can direct
professionally, function as artistic directors
or teach in universities
Our graduates
Our graduates include Oscar nominated
director Stephen Daldry, whose debut
movie, Billy Elliott, was nominated for three
Academy Awards and twelve BAFTAs.
His follow ups, The Hours and The Reader,
were also nominated for numerous awards.
He has been artistic director of The Gate
and The Royal Court.
Recent graduates include Oliver Wilson and
Arsher Ali, both now with the RSC; Shane
Dempsey, director of Stage Craft Youth
Theatre, Ireland; Abbey Wright, Resident
Assistant Director at the Donmar
Warehouse; Ashley Rolfe who appeared in
King Lear, Globe Theatre; Andy McSorley
who starred as Harry Haddon-Bell in Miss
Potter (Hopping Mad Productions); and
Alice O’Connell, Lois in The Rotters’ Club
(Company Pictures).
Notable graduates include Alison
Steadman who has appeared on stage,
TV and film, including Gavin and Stacey
(Baby Cow Productions), Pride and
Prejudice (A&E Television Networks)
and Shirley Valentine (Paramount Pictures);
Billy Murray who played Johnny Allen in
EastEnders (BBC) and Don Beech in
The Bill (Thames Television); Annette
Badland whose numerous roles include
Doctor Who (BBC) and the film Little
Voice (Scala Productions); and playwright
April de Angelis.
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