With multiple opportunities to invent and create your own style of live theatre, this Theatre and Professional Practice (Hons) at Coventry University is designed to help equip you with the knowledge and experience used within the theatre industry.

This program is available in a 3-year full-time and 4-year part-time program.

Students gain hands-on experience of a variety of different and exciting approaches to making and performing live theatre Ð from scripted, collaboratively devised work and improvisational approaches to performance, to mask work and puppetry, acrobatics and stilt work, physical theatre and intermedia performance. You’ll even is encouraged to create a professional scale work as a final project.

Career prospects

There is a strong emphasis within the course on our studentsÕ future career paths, aimed not only to help students to explore what your chosen career path might be, but also to help build a professional level of business skills and knowledge

The ÔBusiness MattersÕ module in particular is designed to encourage you to develop an appreciation of the nature of professionalism in the context of the performing arts industry and to recognise the relationship between professional arts practice, critical reflection and personal planning. We will cover the career structures relevant for your field, including companies, free-lance, small businesses and sole trader, and the commercial structures within which you may eventually work. We will also look at the possible market places for different skills and creations, which includes areas such as self-promotion, marketing and publicity.