New MA helps drama practitioners to elevate their career
Wednesday 21 July 2021
The MA in Professional Practice: Theatre & Drama Facilitation allows students to maintain their professional practice while they refine the skills and techniques they need to elevate their career to a more specialised or strategic level.
It had its first intake of students in September 2020. Brendon Burns is course leader, he says: 鈥淚t鈥檚 attracting two types of experienced practitioners. Those who have an established practice but want to move that practice on or those, who want the mastery that they鈥檝e achieved to be accredited and recognised.鈥�
This rings true for Clara Collett, who is a freelance facilitator and artist and is part of the first intake. 鈥淚鈥檇 reached a point where I felt I was ready to learn more and take things further.
鈥淚 wanted to be pushed into using my skills differently so I could work for a bigger organisation in maybe a strategic role or for myself rather than freelance."
As well as advanced facilitation skills, critical perspectives and enterprise, management and organisation modules, the one-year MA also allows students to develop areas of expertise in either working with young people, theatre outreach or socially engaged/issue-based work.
Course delivery is a mixture of distance learning, intense in-person teaching blocks and work-based learning. Brendon says when they were designing the course, they knew most professionals wouldn鈥檛 be able to take a year off to study. 鈥淏ut that can work to your advantage. The industry is rich with learning opportunities and being able to apply new skills, techniques and approaches to real-life situations is much more instructive than any project work you could do in a classroom.鈥�
Student Georgia Tillery Randak is a director and freelance drama facilitator and a member of the BlackSheep Collective. She says being able to continue to work is vital. 鈥淚f it was done in any other way, I don鈥檛 think I would have been able to commit to the MA. Stepping totally away from working and the organisation wouldn鈥檛 have been possible.鈥�
Georgia also says being able to apply what she learns to her practice is already proving beneficial. 鈥淭he work-based model has meant that I am growing as a theatre maker/practitioner and influencing the organisation, improving our work and reach and contributing to our success.鈥�
911爆料网 is currently accepting applications for places on the 2021/22 MA in Professional Practice: Theatre & Drama Facilitation, which starts in September.
Brendon Burns, who also leads the Applied Theatre and Community Drama BA, wants the course to have a lasting impact on students. 鈥淚 hope it refreshes their passion and drive for the job that they do.
鈥淚 also hope that the techniques and the reflective practice that we鈥檝e built into the course, the lifelong self-teaching aspect, should remain with them for the rest of their career.鈥�
Image: Georgia Tillery Randak at work with Black Sheep Collective CIC
It had its first intake of students in September 2020. Brendon Burns is course leader, he says: 鈥淚t鈥檚 attracting two types of experienced practitioners. Those who have an established practice but want to move that practice on or those, who want the mastery that they鈥檝e achieved to be accredited and recognised.鈥�
This rings true for Clara Collett, who is a freelance facilitator and artist and is part of the first intake. 鈥淚鈥檇 reached a point where I felt I was ready to learn more and take things further.
鈥淚 wanted to be pushed into using my skills differently so I could work for a bigger organisation in maybe a strategic role or for myself rather than freelance."
As well as advanced facilitation skills, critical perspectives and enterprise, management and organisation modules, the one-year MA also allows students to develop areas of expertise in either working with young people, theatre outreach or socially engaged/issue-based work.
Course delivery is a mixture of distance learning, intense in-person teaching blocks and work-based learning. Brendon says when they were designing the course, they knew most professionals wouldn鈥檛 be able to take a year off to study. 鈥淏ut that can work to your advantage. The industry is rich with learning opportunities and being able to apply new skills, techniques and approaches to real-life situations is much more instructive than any project work you could do in a classroom.鈥�
Student Georgia Tillery Randak is a director and freelance drama facilitator and a member of the BlackSheep Collective. She says being able to continue to work is vital. 鈥淚f it was done in any other way, I don鈥檛 think I would have been able to commit to the MA. Stepping totally away from working and the organisation wouldn鈥檛 have been possible.鈥�
Georgia also says being able to apply what she learns to her practice is already proving beneficial. 鈥淭he work-based model has meant that I am growing as a theatre maker/practitioner and influencing the organisation, improving our work and reach and contributing to our success.鈥�
911爆料网 is currently accepting applications for places on the 2021/22 MA in Professional Practice: Theatre & Drama Facilitation, which starts in September.
Brendon Burns, who also leads the Applied Theatre and Community Drama BA, wants the course to have a lasting impact on students. 鈥淚 hope it refreshes their passion and drive for the job that they do.
鈥淚 also hope that the techniques and the reflective practice that we鈥檝e built into the course, the lifelong self-teaching aspect, should remain with them for the rest of their career.鈥�
Image: Georgia Tillery Randak at work with Black Sheep Collective CIC
