- Hi, I'm Dr. Amy Skinner,
I'm a senior lecturer in drama and theatre practice,
and I'm the programme leader for the MA Theatre Making.
Our MA Theatre Making
is an opportunity for you to develop
advanced skills in theatre practice
and theatre scholarship,
and there are three things that I think
make the course really exciting.
Firstly, there's the quantity and quality
of practical opportunities
that you have during the programme.
Every module has got a practical theater-making component,
and our students have opportunities
to develop skills across a wide range of disciplines,
from acting and performance to directing, writing,
design, producing, and community facilitation.
Secondly, our programme is based on practice research,
and that means you get the best of both worlds.
So you will be studying critical key texts,
you'll be engaging with cutting-edge performance research,
but you'll be exploring all of that
through practical projects with real-life applications.
Third, our programme is individualised
and it's inclusive,
so the program's flexible
and it can adapt to your personal talents and interests,
allowing you to build your own
academic and artistic portfolio.
And we'll also support you
in planning for your future career,
and that includes a module where you get to learn
how to set up and run your own theatre company.
And a number of our graduates have gone on to do that
after the programme,
and now run award-winning theatre companies in the industry.
Our networks are great,
we work closely with our community and creative partners,
including schools, museums,
art galleries, care facilities,
giving our students real-life experience
of creating art in response to professional project briefs.
We collaborate with nationally
and internationally renowned arts organisations,
and we maintain close relationships
with our own graduate theatre companies
who work with our students
to support and inspire them.
I think Hull is a great place to make theatre.
We're a friendly and close-knit drama community,
and we've got some great facilities.
So we've got two performance spaces,
we've got rehearsal rooms,
and we've got dedicated facilities for set, lighting,
costume, sound, and digital performance.