Tips on Getting Into Royal Academy of Dramatic Art Semester

The course

Our BA (Hons) in Acting develops the talent and potential you bring with you to RADA, training you in techniques and approaches that will confidently equip y'all for a successful and long-term career in the industry.

You will start by building foundation skills through form work, before putting these into practice in sharings and open classes to pocket-sized groups within RADA, and finally through public performances and film-making in your final year. We are currently undergoing a process of decolonising our curriculum, so there may be some changes to texts or areas of study outlined below.

The course will help you to develop a spirit of curiosity and discovery that will enrich your personal and professional development.

It is designed to assist you lot reach your full potential through vocal, concrete and imaginative techniques, and provide yous with the ability to go along learning and developing beyond these three years and throughout your professional person life.

Grade aims

Over the three-year course, RADA aims to:

provide educatee actors of exceptional talent with vocal, physical and imaginative preparation that volition allow you to attain your total potential
stimulate in students an awareness of your potential for growth, and for the need to go along the learning process throughout your lives
create and sustain a spirit of enquiry and discovery within the Academy, to enrich and develop the potential of both students and staff
provide the dramatic arts industries with skilful, confident, virtuosic and resilient actors, enriching the industry nationally and internationally
encourage an agile engagement with the role of the creative person in society and culture
generate in equally wide a spectrum of students as possible, a life-long commitment to the development of creative skills, to enrich both your own lives and those of your audiences

Timetable and workload

Hours volition fluctuate merely you will usually work around 40 hours per week, sometimes slightly longer, with some classes, projects and productions including evenings and weekends. Additionally at to the lowest degree 10 hours of self-directed study a week is necessary.

There are fifteen minute breaks between all classes also as at to the lowest degree an hour for lunch daily. Whatever course longer than 2 hours also has a 15 minute break.

The majority of teaching is in-person, in practical classroom/studio (1st/2d year) or rehearsal (3rd year) environments. This includes group and one:1 piece of work and 3-four hours per week on average of seminars roofing personal and professional evolution and contextual studies. Online instruction currently accounts for upwardly to 6 hours per week.

All training takes place onsite at RADA except in exceptional circumstances.

Tertiary twelvemonth hours are higher during production periods and routinely include evenings and weekends.

You tin can discover our term dates up to summer 2023 here.

Assessment

The BA (Hons) in Interim is an unclassified degree; this means y'all volition receive an honours degree, but without classifications like 2:i or get-go form.

All assessment is based on practical work. Yous will exist assessed regularly throughout your grooming on progress in each of the subjects yous learn. You will also exist assessed during projects and productions, working towards a series of public productions in the third year. We are looking for your ability to bring together all aspects of learning, and to embody it within your work as an thespian.

You volition receive regular feedback through tutorials, class notes and written feedback on assessments. We exercise non automatically share marks with students, but these are available if you would like to encounter them.

The programme does not take credit weighting. Students are required to pass all course components to complete the plan.

Year ane

Cumulative classwork, where students are marked across a number of subjects. Formal cess points are in term ii
Acting project i (70% process, 30% presentation) in term three

Yr 2

Cumulative classwork, where students are marked beyond a number of subjects. Formal assessment points are in term four
Acting project ii (50% procedure, 50% presentation) in term 4
Acting project 3 (50% process, 50% presentation) in term five
Acting project 4 (50% procedure, 50% presentation) in term six
Acting project 5 (50% procedure, fifty% presentation) in term 6

Year three

Public production one (30% process, 70% presentation) in term vii
Public production 2 (thirty% procedure, 70% presentation) in term seven
Public production 3 (30% procedure, lxx% presentation) in term 8
Public production 4 (30% process, 70% presentation) in term ix
Recorded drama: film project and radio project (combined marks 30% rehearsal, 70% public functioning – projects are marked separately and terminal marks aggregated) in term 8

Across all three years, there are classes that are compulsory to nourish only are non assessed.

Teaching staff

Hear from Lead Acting Tutor John Beschizza near acting technique classes at RADA

Year 1

Exploration

The starting time year of your grooming is nearly exploration. The work is rigorous and challenging, but asks that you approach it playfully and imaginatively; and with a willingness to expect at and let get of habits, try things in ways you've never tried them before, and explore yourself in new situations and exercises.

You will exist introduced to the fundamental elements of acting technique (through Stanislavski and some of his successors); theory and do in voice (including voice practice, speech communication report, sight reading and text work); and motion (comprising pure and expressive movement).

Other classes focus on screen interim, improvisation, dance, combat, individual and choral singing, and Alexander technique.

This year is about process rather than presentation or performance. At that place are some showings and sharing of work towards the stop of each term, but in the showtime twelvemonth you will only share your work with staff and peers.

You lot will also hear from RADA's regular invitee speakers, comprising leading figures from a wide range of industries and walks of life – from politics and arts, to photography, neuroscience and religion.

Weekly classes beyond the year volition include:

acting technique
improvisation
pure and expressive motion
practical vocalism and oral communication through voice
dance
dramaturgy
text and scene study
acting for camera
player's history
Alexander technique
rehearsal exercises
singing (one:1 and choral)
physical skills and stage gainsay
reflective practice
personal and professional development

Lead Singing Tutor Jane Streeton explains the importance of singing classes for actors

Yr 2

Assimilation

This year is nigh assimilation. You will depict together and refine the skills, techniques and practices you explored in your commencement year as you develop more than independence, responsibility and resilience.

Professional person development continues with a focus on the role of the professional person actor in the industry, including console discussions and workshops with actors, directors, producers and writers.

2d year grade work

In acting grooming, you will deepen your work on Meisner technique, including in screen acting classes. Edifice on the improvisation techniques accrued in first year, you will be introduced to a devising strand with a focus on both theatre and film.

In voice training, you will encounter more varied texts with distinct challenges, explored through course work and breezy sharings. You will exist guided through speech communication systems via playful vocal investigation, reflection and analysis.

In singing classes, you will begin to curate a repertoire of songs for presentations and auditions, and focus on integrating singing technique with acting and character demands.

In move classes, y'all will be introduced to neutral mask, chorus work and character work, every bit well as developing dance and fight skills and applying them to text and dramatic situations.

2d twelvemonth projects

2d year projects currently include Shakespeare, Stanislavski scene study, Jacobean scene report, Greek Lab project, Prize Fights, Restoration comedy and Shakespeare for Young Audiences.

These provide opportunities to utilize your training, working with your regular teachers as well as outside practitioners and directors.

Performance

Your outset public performances take place at the end of the second year with the Shakespeare for Immature Audiences, which perform in London secondary schools, RADA's Jerwood Vanbrugh Theatre and – where possible – at international festivals. Recently these take included:

META (Meeting of European Theatre Academies) in Florence
Alpbach Forum in Austria
Gdansk International Shakespeare Festival
International Meeting of Theatre Schools in Poland
Theatre Schools Festival in Suceava, Romania

My three years at RADA undoubtedly gear up an invaluable foundation for my final few years as an actor, and I am excited for whoever chooses RADA as the drama schoolhouse for them.

Patsy Ferran, BA (Hons) in Acting, 2014

Year 3

Applying your training

Year three focuses on the application of your first 2 years of training.

Class piece of work continues just with less frequency. You will have regular voice and motility, acting lab, singing and reflective practice classes, as well as ongoing professional development. Voice and motility support is office of all productions and may include combat, singing and ensemble piece of work, as required.

Evening and weekend work is expected during third twelvemonth as function of your regular timetable. The hours worked during the year may exceed 50 hours a week during production periods.

Performing in your third yr

Third twelvemonth stage, movie and radio productions give y'all the experience of rehearsing and realising a performance in a supported professional surroundings, working with professional person directors and creative and technical teams.

Equally you refine your ain personal creative process, y'all will demonstrate your versatility and proficiency as an actor, exploring, developing and sustaining work in different media. Casting is designed to be equitable, providing students with equally broad a range of parts – big and small – every bit possible. You volition exist stretched in a constructive way, playing parts appropriate to your skills and learning needs. We also aim to ensure that you lot perform in a diverseness of dissimilar spaces and forms of theatre.

Yous volition too have the opportunity to perform in showcases for an invited industry audition.

Stage productions

Each student volition be cast in four stage productions, each comprising 10 performances for both invited industry and the paying public in ane of our three on-site theatres. These are fully realised, designed by professionals or graduating theatre production students, with full technical back up by our theatre production students and staff. We work with professional directors, including both RADA staff and guests, and they are encouraged to work with y'all as they would with more than experienced actors, employing their ain personal creative approaches. You volition also receive voice and movement back up from the acting faculty, and specific coaching for gainsay, dance and singing where appropriate.

Plays are fatigued from the whole range of world theatre, both classical and gimmicky, and may include new writing, devised and interdisciplinary work, and musicals.

Picture show, audio and radio productions

Each year RADA commissions professionally written scripts and produces six curt films, professionally directed and shot in varying locations. This provides the experience of realising a screen functioning within a supported professional person production environment. The films crave acting and crewing, providing invaluable insights and opportunity to explore and develop craft, both in front of and behind the camera. Understanding and appreciating the technical demands and expectations of a professional film fix is an important role of developing interim and technical craft. A screening consequence is held for both industry and public audiences to showcase this interdisciplinary piece of work. The exceptional standard of RADA Short films continues to garner for RADA ongoing recognition from selection, screenings and laurels nationally and internationally at prestigious curt film festivals.

You will also be creatively involved in various audio delivery projects, directed by visiting professionals, and work with audio industry content creation professionals towards the product of individual phonation-over reels.

Assessment of performances

Each student performs in five public productions over the course of the year (four stage productions and one short film). Four of these, which must include the film, are assessed.

I didn't really know what drama school was, and definitely didn't think information technology was somewhere for me... when I was offered my identify I learned and so much well-nigh myself and the craft of acting.

Omar Bynon, BA (Hons) Acting graduate, 2020

Professional development

Professional development opportunities include seminars with agents, casting directors, directors, actors and other industry professionals, as well as other RADA teams such as Evolution, Communications and Marketing, and RADA Business.

In the third yr students also benefit from the RADA Buddy mentoring scheme. This programme supports the transition from educatee to professional actor with graduate 'buddies' providing professional communication, feedback and networking opportunities throughout the terminal twelvemonth and beyond.

Professional person development sessions may include:

tax and self-employment
budgeting, both personal and for productions, grants and funding bodies
self-taping
mock auditions
auditions with Shakespeare's Globe, RSC and picture show and TV companies
workshop leader training and practice
voice reels

Applying

We consider diversity to exist an enriching and vital part of what makes u.s. i of the world leaders in providing vocational grooming. We encourage the opportunity for preparation regardless of historic period, gender, inability, ethnicity, marital status, nationality, sexual orientation, parental condition, religion or belief.

How to apply

Consummate the online application form at the elevation of this page. You volition receive an automatic confirmation email when the grade has been submitted.

Post-obit this our Admissions Team will contact you as soon equally possible and requite a two-calendar week deadline for submitting your self-tape to RADA so please do ensure that you experience prepared to record your video, prior to submitting your application.

There is unremarkably an intake of upward to 28 students in September each year. Yous may but use one time per academic year. Nosotros audition anybody who applies.

We are committed to making our training as widely accessible every bit possible. Educatee loans and scholarships are available, and you lot tin utilize for free if you are a UK student who attended a state school and have a family unit income of less than £25,000; please see below for full details.

A guide to our online awarding class

Applications are online – you tin make full out the course on a desktop, mobile or whatever other device.
If y'all find that the form doesn't work, try using a different browser. Nosotros recommend Chrome or Safari.
We enquire questions virtually you including your address, school address, qualifications and household income.
We ask for a passport-manner photograph of yous. This tin exist a selfie or any other photo that clearly shows you from the shoulders up in portrait orientation up to 2MB in size. This is for our records only.
Parts of the form will appear/disappear according to your answers – this is so we can collect the correct data for each applicant.
The data we collect is confidential. Some of it is shared with our audition console, but we mark this clearly on the form.
There is an application fee, which you volition need to pay at the stop of the course before you submit it – so please brand sure you take a payment method prepare. Even so yous may be eligible for a free application. All the information is in the application grade so you can detect out if this applies to you.
You can save your progress and return to information technology later. If you lot press salvage, the course creates a URL which you will demand to save or email to yourself. Yous tin can and then use this link to return to your place in the course and continue filling it in.
In one case you have pressed 'Submit' on the awarding grade you can no longer edit, so delight make sure you have filled out everything correctly.
Yous will receive a confirmation email to say your form has been submitted. This will also include a summary of your answers to the Your Details and Your Qualifications sections, so you have a record of these.

Entry requirements

Candidates must:

be 18 years old by one September 2022
take complete fluency in spoken and written English
demonstrate an intellectual, creative and practical ability to undertake degree level training

English is non my starting time language. How is fluency in English assessed?

Applicants should accept excellent conversational English and be able to understand a diverseness of texts. As with all applicants, during the audition the panel will consider how you lot deliver your speeches and also how you are able to interact and converse with them.

For non-UK applicants, we recommend that you read the guidelines published by U.k. Visas and Clearing. RADA can choose how to assess a pupil'south cognition of English. They must nonetheless be at:

CEFR level B2 if you're studying at a degree level or higher
SELT in reading, writing, listening and speaking and CEFR level B1 if you're not studying at a caste level

Admissions process

Our audition procedure is rigorous, spanning several months. Owing to the number of candidates we audience, we do non routinely provide feedback. The information beneath explains each stage of the process; y'all can read more details about the procedure, what speeches to ready, and how nosotros back up disabled candidates in our Admissions Procedure Guide (large print format bachelor here).

Auditions

The four audience stages

Preliminary audience – self-record, November to March
Recall audition – self-record, December to May
Short workshop – iii-60 minutes session via Zoom
Full workshop day – nosotros intend these to take place in person at RADA if possible

Preliminary audition
Preliminary auditions run continually between Nov and March via a cocky-record that y'all will submit online, which will exist seen by two members of the audition panel.

The preliminary audition video submission should consist of three audition speeches (ii classical speeches and i post-1960 contemporary speech), an unaccompanied vocal (verse and chorus just) and some information about yourself and your work. We do not have set lists of speeches, nor can nosotros advise you on your private option of spoken language. Candidates volition be sent more detailed guidance on creating your self-record once you have submitted your application class.

Speech A – Classical: The classical piece should be from Shakespeare or an Elizabethan/Jacobean playwright (Jonson, Marlowe, Webster, etc.). It should be originally written in English – and then do not choose a piece from a Greek tragedy or a Molière comedy, for instance.

Speech B – Alternative Classical: equally above.

Speech communication C – Gimmicky: The contemporary slice should provide a clear contrast to the classical slice and be written afterwards 1960. Do not use Chekhov or Shaw for this piece.

Recall audition
If yous progress to the recall stage, your self-tape will exist seen by four different members of the audition panel. You will not be asked to record a new self-tape for this stage.

Brusk workshop
A three-hr workshop, held online. Y'all should be prepared to perform both your classical speeches and your gimmicky speech from previous rounds. Yous volition work with a professional person managing director on your speech communication. The sessions will include some exercises that may involve 1-to-one contact with other members of the grouping.

Total workshop day
This is the final stage and is a full day of workshops. You will need to set a new audition speech of your choice, from whatever era. Nosotros need to run across a speech we have not shown or worked on in earlier stages.

Other sessions include motion, voice and scene study.

Our intention is that the mean solar day is relaxed and enjoyable for all applicants so that, regardless of the outcome, you will have had an enriching experience.

Information for disabled candidates

We welcome applications from disabled candidates and encourage them to disclose relevant data regarding any inability when completing their application course, to enable us to provide additional support during the admissions process. If y'all are a disabled candidate and would like farther advice or guidance, delight contact the admissions squad direct on admissions@rada.air conditioning.uk.

Admissions, appeals and complaints

For information nigh RADA's admissions, appeals and complaints procedures for college didactics courses, please download and read our Admissions, Appeals and Complaints document.

Please note that this process covers the post-obit courses:

BA (Hons) in Acting
FdA Technical Theatre and Stage Management
BA (Hons) in Technical Theatre and Stage Direction (progression yr)
Postgraduate Diploma in Theatre Costume
MA Theatre Lab

Policies, terms and conditions

If you would like to know more about RADA's admissions policies for higher education courses, please download and read our Admissions Policy.

Please download the RADA Fees Policy for more information near fee levels and increases, deposits and payment.

Please see our Student Protection Programme for data well-nigh how we protect your rights.

You tin can read our terms and conditions for students.

Applying for costless

Fees and applying for costless

You can apply for free if you are a Uk student who is entering college education for the first fourth dimension, and fall into the following criteria:

Y'all attended a state school

and one or more than of the following:

Your family income is below £25,000
Your family unit income is less than £43,000 and your dwelling house address is in a neighbourhood with low participation (in accordance with the Polar4 Postcode Check). You must be in a POLAR4 Quintile 1 or 2 neighbourhood for this to apply
You volition be considered to exist a care leaver when yous brainstorm your preparation

There is no limit to the number of people who can apply for free; it is based on eligibility. You will demand to submit evidence of your eligibility and household income; this is part of the course awarding class.

For everyone else, the application fee for the BA (Hons) in Interim is £34. The application fee covers the cost of processing and progressing each individual application. Awarding fees are not refundable.

Travel bursaries

If y'all fall into the above criteria and successfully progress through the application process, yous will also exist considered for a travel bursary for the 4th round of the auditions, which we hope to hold in person at RADA.

We will require testify of demand and household income. We practise not prepare a specific corporeality paid for travel bursaries as it will depend on the distance travelled and mode of transport. We will simply pay travel bursaries for travel within the UK in standard grade.

Costs and funding

Tuition fees

Undergraduate fees for the academic year 2022-23:

Home (UK) students
£9,250 per bookish year

International
£21,710 per bookish year

Tuition fees: in particular

Your grade is iii years in length so for UK students the total tuition volition be not less than £27,750. For international students, the full tuition will exist not less than £65,130. For international students, please note that nosotros are probable to increase your fees yr-on-year by a price of living amount.

Cheque below for data on whether you will be classed as a Home (United kingdom) or International student. This also affects the financial support available.

Delight encounter the fees policy for more than information about how RADA calculates tuition fee increases for each year of a class.

Home (Uk) or International educatee?

There are strict regulations regarding residency which must be met in order to qualify for Home (UK) student status. Please note: European union students who started a course in September 2020 or earlier are eligible to pay Habitation fees for the duration of their grade; whatsoever EU educatee (except Irish nationals) starting a grade from September 2021 onwards will have International pupil status, unless you have pre-settled condition or settled status.

Home (Uk) educatee
In club to exist classed equally a Habitation (UK) student y'all normally demand to meet all of the following criteria on the first day of the offset academic year of the course:

You are settled in the UK (this means in that location is no immigration brake on the length of your stay).
You are ordinarily resident in the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland, and have been for the full three years before the first day of the academic year (ordinarily resident means that your principal home is in the UK, and you are choosing to live in the UK).
The master reason for y'all being in the UK was non to receive total-time teaching.

International student
If y'all do non autumn under the Home (UK) definition, and then y'all will be classed as an international student.

International students coming to RADA on a full-time course of more than half-dozen months will require a Student visa before coming to the Great britain to start your course. Without the visa you will not be allowed to enter the Uk. Please visit the U.k. Visas & Clearing website for further details.

The definitions on this folio are only a very brief summary and there are a number of exceptions to the atmospheric condition listed. For more detailed data, delight refer to the Uk Quango for International Student Affairs guide.

Other costs

Almost all materials and resources y'all require for your course, including travel for any trips, are included in your tuition fees.

Other material costs (not included in your tuition fee): approximately £300.

The things non covered include practice clothes and footwear, yoga matts, play texts and stationery.

International students will too need to pay for visa costs; please visit the United kingdom Visas & Immigration website for further details.

Funding your training

Although applications are made directly to RADA, non through UCAS, RADA is a Registered Provider with the Function for Students. This ways that Dwelling (UK) students studying on our courses are eligible for financial support from the Pupil Loans Company.

RADA also offers a number of scholarships, the bulk of which are awarded on the ground of income to undergraduate students studying in higher educational activity for the beginning time. See the Scholarships tab beneath for more details.

It is important that you sympathize when you accept a place at RADA that y'all know how you will pay for it and whether you lot will demand financial aid. We exercise not take account of financial demand when offering places, but nosotros do reasonably assume that if yous are applying to come up to RADA, you lot will exist able to pay the fees and support yourself.

Applying for a educatee loan

You can utilize for a student loan for your tuition fees and living costs (maintenance loan) if:

you lot are a Habitation (UK) student
you have not already completed a course at the same level (for case another BA degree)

Tuition fee loans are not means tested and this means that you lot do not accept to pay whatsoever fees upfront for your class.

Depending on your dwelling/residency country, you will as well be able to take out a maintenance loan to support you in your studies. These loans are ways tested and will depend on whether you are living at home or independently. Data virtually how much yous tin borrow and a educatee finance calculator are available on the student finance website.

Scholarships

In addition to tuition and maintenance loans from the Pupil Loans Company, over 50% of dwelling (UK) students receive farther financial support from RADA - from costless applications and contributions towards living costs, to full scholarships.

RADA offers a number of scholarships. The majority of our scholarships will be awarded on the basis of income to undergraduate students studying in higher didactics for the first time.

We have a limited number of scholarships for second degree students. Nosotros do not usually offering scholarships to international students from outside the UK.

Means-tested scholarships

For Britain student, new to higher education, starting an undergraduate course in September 2022, we offer the following awards:

Income under £43,000
Minimum award of £3,000 for each twelvemonth of study

Intendance leavers

In accordance with our 2020 – 2025 Access and Participation Plan, RADA offers an additional scholarship to intendance leavers (for living costs) of £three,000 per year for each year of study. This is for UK students on undergraduate courses.

Students are invited to employ for scholarship support once the offer of a place is made.

Back up for United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland undergraduates taking a second degree

Second-degree students are not eligible for regime-sponsored loans for a caste at the aforementioned or lower level.

RADA welcomes applications from Britain students who already hold a degree from some other institution or in a different field of study and we hold a pocket-sized number of places at the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland fee rate for such students.

Yous will need to finance yourself for both fees and living expenses. Nosotros take a very limited number of scholarships, which include total-fee and/or total-maintenance scholarships for students who are not eligible for student finance. Please read our scholarship section to a higher place for more data.

Information technology is important that you understand when you have a place at RADA that yous know how you will pay for it and whether you volition demand fiscal help. We practise not take account of financial need when offering places, but nosotros do reasonably assume that if you are applying to come to RADA, you will exist able to pay the fees and support yourself. Nosotros volition prioritise students from low-income backgrounds and from groups nether-represented in the profession in allocating financial support.

It is in your interest to provide u.s.a. with information near how you intend to pay for your fees and support yourself through training, if y'all are not eligible for authorities-sponsored student finance.

Support for international students

For students defined every bit International (not a Home (Uk) educatee), y'all are required to pay the full cost of your fees and living expenses. Your offer is made on the basis that you can meet these expenses from your ain funds. In that location are also financial requirements associated with the allocation of a Student visa. Please visit the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland Visas & Clearing website for further details.

RADA is not, at present, eligible for United states of america Federal Loans.

Our job is to aid students to work with honesty, generosity and openness and awaken their imaginations to something 'other'. It is a thrilling journeying, and fair to say that we larn as much from them as they practise from us.

Annie Tyson, acting technique and scene study teacher

Careers

I can't even imagine having had a career without RADA. Information technology is inseparable from who I am as an actress

Juliet Stevenson CBE, RADA Acting graduate

Our BA (Hons) Acting prepares you for work in English language-speaking classical and gimmicky theatre, film, television and radio. Graduates work internationally, especially in the US on Broadway and in Hollywood.

Graduates take as well worked in video game and digital performance, continued to postgraduate education, and become directors, writers and producers, creating their ain work, founding their ain companies and running leading theatre venues across the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland.

The transferable skills in the training have also enabled graduates to further their studies and institute careers in psychology, educational activity, constabulary, communications, business and life coaching, elite sports coaching and public speaking.

Recent graduate destinations

Here is only a option of recent work by our acting graduates.

West Stop productions

Fleabag
Hamilton
Village
Harry Potter and the Cursed Kid
The Inheritance
The Jungle
King Lear
The Lieutenant of Inishmore
The Play That Goes Incorrect
Plays at the Garrick season, Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company
Pinter at the Pinter
The Prince of Arab republic of egypt
Uncle Vanya

London theatres and companies

Almeida Theatre
Barbican
Bridge Theatre
Cardboard Citizens
Donmar Warehouse
King's Head Theatre
Lyric Hammersmith
National Theatre
Former Vic
Orange Tree Theatre
Regent's Park Open up Air Theatre
Royal Court
Royal Shakespeare Company
Shakespeare'southward World / Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
Tara Arts
Theatre Imperial Stratford Due east
Unicorn Theatre
Yard Theatre
Young Vic

Regional theatres

Chichester Festival Theatre
Citizens Theatre, Glasgow
Edinburgh International Festival
Liverpool Playhouse (repertory company)
Manchester Royal Exchange
New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich
Nottingham Playhouse
Regal & Derngate, Northampton
Sheffield Crucible
Tobacco Factory Theatres, Bristol
Theatre Royal Bathroom
Watermill Theatre

Television

xiii Reasons Why
Bodyguard
Call the Midwife
Chernobyl
Coronation Street
Fleabag
Game of Thrones
Skilful Omens
The Handmaid's Tale
Killing Eve
Line of Duty
Luther
Sexual practice Instruction
This Country
The Crown
A Very English Scandal
The Walking Dead
The Immature Offenders

Moving-picture show

1917
Enola Holmes
The Favourite
Harriet
I'chiliad Thinking of Catastrophe Things
Little Women
Midsommar
Murder on the Orient Limited
The Personal History of David Copperfield
Peterloo
Rocketman
The Shape of Water
Skyfall
Solo: A Star Wars Story
The Two Popes
Thor
Vita and Virginia
Widows

FAQs

English is non my offset language. How is fluency in English language assessed?

Applicants should accept splendid conversational English and be able to understand a variety of texts. Equally with all applicants, during the audition the panel will consider how you deliver your speeches and also how yous are able to collaborate and converse with them.

For non-United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland applicants, nosotros recommend that you read the guidelines published past Britain Visas and Clearing. RADA can choose how to assess a student's knowledge of English language. They must still exist at:

CEFR level B2 if you lot're studying at a degree level or higher
SELT in reading, writing, listening and speaking and CEFR level B1 if you're not studying at a degree level

Where can I get a prospectus?

We no longer produce a physical prospectus. All the information you demand about our full-time courses can be establish on our website, including course content, costs and funding, graduate destinations, the application process, welfare support and where to live.

Practice I apply through UCAS?

We exercise not use the UCAS service for applications and nosotros have an independent audience procedure. Apply via the online class at the top of this page.

Do I demand to be able to sing to go into RADA?

No. You volition be asked to sing for your video submission then we tin can see how you communicate in a dissimilar medium, and how you arroyo performing in different scenarios – the ways y'all engage with a text and with the ideas behind it.

The BA (Hons) in Acting grade includes singing lessons; you can find out more about these in the course data farther up this folio.

How long will it take to hear dorsum from you one time I have applied?

Consummate the online application course at the acme of this page. You will receive an automated confirmation electronic mail when the form has been submitted.

Post-obit this our Admissions Team will contact you as shortly as possible and give a two-week deadline for submitting your self-tape to RADA so please do ensure that y'all feel prepared to record your video, prior to submitting your application.

Nosotros aim to send you self-tape guidance as shortly as possible. If you take not heard from u.s. within 2 weeks, please contact admissions@rada.air conditioning.uk so nosotros can confirm whether nosotros have received your awarding or update you with your audition details.

Please note the admissions part can go incredibly busy at elevation times while we process applications and schedule interviews and auditions.

Tin I defer entry?

No. You should apply for a place in the year before the September you wish to brainstorm your training.

I am from outside the United kingdom. How does this affect my fees and my funding options?

There are different fees for Uk and international students. Yous must have lived in the UK for three consecutive years prior to starting the class in gild to qualify for United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland level tuition fees.

If, for instance, you were born in the U.k. but so moved to Australia for xx years, you would be liable to pay the international rate.

Please see the information under 'Tuition fees' higher up to know if you lot are an UK or international student.

If you lot are a United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland student new to higher didactics, you can utilise for a pupil loan for your tuition fees and living costs. If you are an international student, you are required to pay the full cost of your fees and living expenses. Your offer is made on the ground that you can meet these expenses from your own funds.

We practice non usually offering scholarships to international students from outside the UK.

Read full details in our 'Costs and funding' section above.

I am an EU educatee. How does Brexit bear on my application or my fees/funding?

The United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland left the European union on 31 Jan 2020. In June 2020, the UK regime announced that EU, other EEA and Swiss nationals will no longer be eligible for habitation fee status or financial back up from Student Finance England for courses starting from the 2021-22 academic yr onwards. This does not apply to Irish nationals, or anyone who benefits from Citizens' Rights under the Eu Withdrawal Understanding, EEA EFTA Separation Understanding or Swiss Citizens' Rights Agreement.

You tin can read the full regime declaration here. Please encounter world wide web.gov.uk for more details.

Will I have the time to undertake employment while studying at RADA?

Due to the academic timetable including evening and weekend classes or productions, at that place would be little opportunity to work during term fourth dimension. It is important that students have a balance of study and rest throughout their time at RADA to enable them to consummate their training satisfactorily.

Is it possible to transfer course, to or within RADA?

More often than not, we do non take student transfers into our college education courses. For our acting and performance courses students are auditioned for places (including through several rounds of audience for the BA (Hons) in Interim). The courses are structured in a mode that means it is not piece of cake for someone to bring together part way through, unless they've already completed some of the grooming, for case when someone starts a RADA course and then interrupts for a short period. Should a student make up one's mind to move elsewhere, we would support them in finding appropriate study and piece of work with our validating universities to recognise accomplishment through an leave award, equally appropriate.

We are not able to support students transferring betwixt courses at RADA, particularly between acting and theatre production degrees as these are very different and vocational pathways. A educatee wishing to modify direction would need to exist interviewed or auditioned to join i of the other courses.

Y'all can download our policy statement on transferring courses here.

How have you adapted your admissions process and teaching in response to Covid-19?

RADA'southward response to Covid-nineteen includes making all preliminary and remember auditions accept place via a self-tape, submitted online. Third round auditions will take identify online, and nosotros aim to carry out final circular auditions in person if possible.

Current RADA students are continuing their courses with a combination of in-person and online training. We will go on to adapt our grooming in light of changing government protocols and communication, only delight note courses in September 2022 may encompass some elements of online preparation.

Every bit a Government regulated institution, sometimes our power to open up to the public and visitors is out of control. We volition e'er communicate clearly with applicants equally circumstances modify. Please read more about our Covid-19 protocols here.

How do I submit my audience self-tape?

You lot should commencement apply to the grade using the online application form on this website folio. Once you lot have submitted it and paid the awarding fee (unless y'all are eligible for a complimentary application), we will send yous details of how to create the audition self-tape, and a link to upload it.

The audience video should consist of three speeches and an unaccompanied vocal and should follow the guidelines nosotros send you. You can read more on the Applying department.

Regulations and policies

Read our regulations and policies relating to admissions and current students here.

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Source: https://www.rada.ac.uk/courses/ba-hons-acting/