Theatre Directing MA

Theatre Directing (MA)

This is a unique opportunity to work intensively with Katie Mitchell OBE, one of the most acclaimed, important and innovative directors in Europe. You will combine your professional training with academic research providing you with complementary creative and intellectual skills.

This course is a rigorous, intensive, demanding training in theatre directing where you will work with professional actors to develop your directing skills. You will have the chance to direct in our new purpose-build performance space, the Caryl Churchill Theatre, a 150-seat flexible theatre on three levels, designed by award-winning theatre architects Foster-Wilson.

Royal Holloway's Department of Drama, Theatre and Dance is internationally recognised for the quality of its creative arts programmes. The Department has produced several theatre companies with a growing international reputation, including Ad Infinitum, Forest Fringe, non zero one and Analogue.

From time to time, we make changes to our courses to improve the student and learning experience. If we make a significant change to your chosen course, we’ll let you know as soon as possible.

Q&A with Katie Mitchell Feb 23^rd

Katie Mitchell’s production of Anatomy of a Suicide by Alice Birch at the Royal Court.

Katie Mitchell and course convenor Rebecca McCutcheon met for an informal Q&A about the MA in Theatre Directing. Here they answer questions from applicants about the course structure, content and assessments, and discuss more generally what the course aims to offer its students as they develop their own voice and practice as directors.

Watch the Q&A here.

Bachelor degree with 70%, 3.0 out of 5.0 or 2.8 out of 4.0 overall.

English language requirements

• IELTS: 6.5 overall. Writing 7.0. No other subscore lower than 5.5.
• Pearson Test of English: 61 overall. Writing 69. No other subscore lower than 51.
• Trinity College London Integrated Skills in English (ISE): ISE III.
• Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE) grade C.
• TOEFL iBT: 88 overall, with Reading 18 Listening 17 Speaking 20 Writing 26.
• Duolingo: 120 overall, 135 in Literacy, 135 in Production and no sub-score below 100.