MA Directing

This programme trains directors who are highly creative, critically and socially engaged, and skilled to work in a range of performance styles and practices. Develop your own creative and ethical working methods, and unique style, as a director.

• Goldsmiths is famous for producing theatre practitioners who have agency and critical capacity that makes them fit for work in existing theatre, screen and arts industries as well as being able to create, innovate, and initiate change in their own right as artists.
• MA Directing provides rigorous, diverse and socially aware director training for application in theatre and the arts sector in a 21st-century global context.
• This programme offers imaginative, technical and intellectual training across a range of methods, approaches and related practitioner and critical discourses for use in classical, contemporary, devised, site specific, and new theatre writing productions.
• You will receive an introduction to working in screen, audio and digital contexts and learn about performance theories, practices and methodologies in relation to your own performance practice and research as a director.
• You'll have professional development learning opportunities and reflexive practice embedded through all three terms of the programme and a wide range of directors will visit to lecture and teach over the year, including alumni.
• You will be introduced to a range of directorial methods, plays and styles of theatre from different cultures and periods in history.

Contact the department

If you have specific questions about the degree, contact Pamela Karantonis or Cass Fleming.

Candidates undertaking the MA Directing at Goldsmiths are usually expected to hold an undergraduate degree in an Arts or Humanities area (with a degree classification at 2:1 level or higher).

In terms of professional and relevant work experience, some familiarity with performer training and past presentation opportunities is required. Further and holistic criteria for entry to the programme emphasises: the discipline in collaborating with others, artistic risk-taking in opening up to the pedagogic practices and a commitment to exploring the research contexts to acting independently, commensurate with the level of postgraduate learning.

International qualifications

We also accept a wide range of international qualifications. Find out more about the qualifications we accept from around the world.

If English isn’t your first language, you will need an IELTS score (or equivalent English language qualification) of 7.0 with a 7.0 in writing and no element lower than 6.5 to study this programme. If you need assistance with your English language, we offer a range of courses that can help prepare you for postgraduate-level study.