Playwriting MSc 12 months Postgraduate Program By The University of Edinburgh. |Top Universities
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Program Duration

12 monthsProgram duration

Main Subject Area

English Language and LiteratureMain Subject Area

Program overview

Main Subject

English Language and Literature

Degree

MSc

Study Level

Masters

Study Mode

On Campus

Led by award-winning playwright, director and dramaturge Nicola McCartney, our MSc in Playwriting offers a high level of contact with the theatre industry. It will appeal to emerging playwrights, directors, dramaturges, performance artists and critics.

The programme focuses not only on the craft of writing for performance, but also on how a script plays out in real space and time, and in front of an audience.

You will be taught through a dynamic combination of seminars, workshops, one-to-one supervision and professional masterclasses by some of Europe’s leading playwrights and theatre artists.

Previous collaborators include world famous and award-winning practitioners such as:

  • Cora Bissett
  • Sir Michael Boyd
  • Gregory Burke
  • Kai Fischer
  • Tanika Gupta
  • Philip Howard
  • Rosie Kellagher
  • Lucy Kirkwood
  • Matthew Lenton
  • Linda McLean
  • Orla O'Loughlin
  • Adura Onashile
  • Robin Soanes
  • John Tiffany
A core component of the degree is a series of workshops, facilitated by Playwrights' Studio Scotland, to develop your own work with professional actors and directors.

Program overview

Main Subject

English Language and Literature

Degree

MSc

Study Level

Masters

Study Mode

On Campus

Led by award-winning playwright, director and dramaturge Nicola McCartney, our MSc in Playwriting offers a high level of contact with the theatre industry. It will appeal to emerging playwrights, directors, dramaturges, performance artists and critics.

The programme focuses not only on the craft of writing for performance, but also on how a script plays out in real space and time, and in front of an audience.

You will be taught through a dynamic combination of seminars, workshops, one-to-one supervision and professional masterclasses by some of Europe’s leading playwrights and theatre artists.

Previous collaborators include world famous and award-winning practitioners such as:

  • Cora Bissett
  • Sir Michael Boyd
  • Gregory Burke
  • Kai Fischer
  • Tanika Gupta
  • Philip Howard
  • Rosie Kellagher
  • Lucy Kirkwood
  • Matthew Lenton
  • Linda McLean
  • Orla O'Loughlin
  • Adura Onashile
  • Robin Soanes
  • John Tiffany
A core component of the degree is a series of workshops, facilitated by Playwrights' Studio Scotland, to develop your own work with professional actors and directors.

Admission Requirements

1 Year
Sep

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