Drama and Theatre

Drama and Theatre graduates often go on to work in the Performing Arts|, including Drama|, Theatre|, Film|, and TV|, or in Arts Administration|. However, they may work in many other sectors. Occupations directly related to a Drama and Theatre degree include:

• Theatre Director (also see Prospects profile for Theatre Director)
• Theatre Producer
• Writer
• Critic
• Arts Administrator 
• Theatre Stage Manager
• Lighting Technician or Sound Technician
• Actor
• Community Arts Worker, including Drama in Prisons and Drama in Healthcare worker
• Public Relations Officer (also known as a Publicist)
• Broadcast Presenter
• Higher Education Lecturer or Further Education Lecturer
• Secondary School Teacher

Graduates often set up their own production company or theatre education company. Successful production companies started at Royal Holloway include:

• Analogue Theatre
• Non Zero One
• Patchwork Theatre Company

Students interested in launching a production company should attend The Next Stage| training event.

The college contacts students six months after graduation find out what they are doing.

In 2009, six months after graduating from the Department of Drama and Theatre graduates were involved in:

Specifically, the jobs they secured included:

• Director of a Theatre Company
• Writer
• Project Manager
• Art Agent
• Artistic Director
• Theatre Technician
• Website Manager
• Theatre Practitioner
• Event Organiser
• Drama Coach

You can find similar data| from across several London colleges.

An undergraduate degree in Drama and Theatre from Royal Holloway provides students with a number of valuable transferable skills, as identified by the Council for Industry and Higher Education. The degree will enable graduates to:

• Apply performance and production skills to communicate with an audience.
• Apply group processes in the creation of original work
• Communicate in writing, orally and through performance
• Exercise critical, analytical and physical skills and conduct research.
• Apply creative and imaginative skills through the realisation of practical research projects.
• Think reflectively and independently, and concentrate and focus for extended periods.
• Develop ideas and construct arguments and present them in appropriate ways.
• Handle creative, personal and interpersonal issues and negotiate and pursue goals with others
• Manage personal workloads and meet deadlines under pressure with flexibility, imagination, self-motivation
• and organisation. 
• Produce written work with appropriate scholarly conventions. 
• Apply information retrieval skills involving gathering, sifting and organising material.
• Use IT skills such as word processing, electronic mail, and accessing electronic data.

Over 20% of graduates continue on to further study.

• Masters courses in Drama and Theatre at Royal Holloway
• Other Masters courses at Royal Holloway
• Masters courses elsewhere
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