MA Theatre for Young Audiences

Program Overview

This course is designed for recent graduates and early-career artists interested in developing their performance-making through a professionally-oriented academic framework. This programme develops and expands the notion of students as producers of knowledge, with a pronounced emphasis on enhancing the employability of its graduates through live brief projects with existing partners (currently schools, the Lincoln Performing Arts Centre and theatre for young audience practitioners). The programme aims to provide students with a professionally-facing environment in which to explore and interrogate their performance-making within a robust, methodologically informed academic framework. Key features may include: Supervision and teaching by practitioners; Leading practitioners as guest lecturers; Extensive opportunities to show performance work in Lincoln and the county, with an expectation that students will be supported in their ambition to produce work for as broad a geographic and demographic audience as possible; Taught content that transfers the knowledge and skills necessary to allow students to confidently prepare funding bids for performance processes within and beyond their studies; Local, regional and national opportunities for making and showing performance work; The opportunity for extended, practice-based work. Career and Personal Development: Although the programme is designed to lead directly into the field of theatre for young audiences, it may also prove valuable to those interested in teaching, management or policy-making in the arts.