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207 Master's degrees in Drama in Europe
Theatre Directing
This MFA in Theatre Directing at Birkbeck, University of London, is a full-time programme spanning two years. It provides students with professional training and practical experience, preparing them for a successful career in theatre directing. The course is designed for individuals who have previously directed university or professional-level productions.
Audiences, Engagement, Participation
The Audiences, Engagement, Participation PGDip at the University of Leeds is a one-year full-time programme designed to explore cultural participation and engagement. This degree aims to enhance your understanding of audience dynamics and is delivered on campus, providing a comprehensive learning experience.
Acting for Screen MA
The Acting for Screen MA is an intensive actor postgraduate training programme focused on performance in digital contexts, including screen, games, audio mediums, and emerging technologies such as XR, VR and AI.

Directing Film and Television
You''ll have many opportunities for practical production across different platforms and genres in both factual and fictional filmmaking whilst enhancing your skills and technical understanding of film, television and transmedia production. Directing Film and Television is offered at Bournemouth University.
Performance and Theatre Making
Create innovative new theatre by cultivating your dramaturgical skills, performance training and critical thinking. Gain confidence in facilitation and community engagement to reach your audiences. Build your networks and industry knowledge through placement study. Emerge with a well-rounded skillset that prepares you to make, perform and facilitate creative work for the contemporary cultural environment.
Actor Training and Coaching
Together with the MA/MFA Voice Studies and the MA/MFA Movement: Actor Training and Coaching courses at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, Actor Training and Coaching is one of Central’s postgraduate degrees that exposes you to high-level training practice.
Comparative Dramaturgy and Performance Research
The Comparative Dramaturgy and Performance Research program from Goethe University Frankfurt is currently offered by five European universities. It is designed for students interested in employment in international and intercultural contexts such as festivals, co-productions, exchange programs, and collaborations.

Performance Making - Pre-Master's Programme
This one-year (2-semester) programme offers successful students guaranteed progression to a postgraduate degree at a top UK university. Learn more at the Performance Making - Pre-Master's Programme at OnCampus London from Goldsmiths, University of London.

Theatre Studies
This Theatre Studies programme of study at the University of Malta is conducted mainly by research. It will offer you an opportunity to undertake an independent research project in a chosen area of theatre studies.
Performance
This MFA in Performance program at American College Dublin provides a student with an advanced introduction to the challenges and possibilities of organizing and presenting a public professional performance. Based around the development of a substantial live performance, the program also offers supervision on an agreed dissertation topic and two courses in management and marketing.
Scenography
Scenography from Østfold University College is based on experiential artistic laboratories, productions, theory and methods, concluding in a final master project with an internal or external partner emphasizing the dialogic quality of scenography.
Stage Management and Technical Theatre
Stage Management and Technical Theatre from Queen Margaret University course offers you the knowledge and skills to become an effective practitioner in the fields of stage management and technical theatre

Secondary Drama
The Secondary Drama programme from University of Chester is designed to provide you with the knowledge, understanding and skills that you need to be an outstanding teacher.

Theatre-Making
Work with creativity and flair as a theatre-maker in a rich creative environment. Join the Theatre-Making course at the University of York.

Creative Writing Scriptwriting
Prepare for a career in writing for theatre, radio, film, or television with a Creative Writing Scriptwriting MA course from the University of East Anglia that allows you to create dramatic writing across all media.
Drama Including Practice-Based in the Arts by Published Works
This Drama Including Practice-Based in the Arts by Published Works curriculum at University of Northampton offers a great way to advance your knowledge and research abilities if you have a degree in drama or a related field.

Secondary Drama (School-Led)
The Secondary Drama (School-Led) course at University of Chester is designed to provide you with the knowledge, understanding and skills that you need to be an outstanding teacher.
Design for Performance
Design for Performance at Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama offers specialist tuition and opportunities to design performance environments, installations, characters and sets for a series of live public performances and immersive experiences.

Drama and Theatre Studies
The Drama and Theatre Studies programme at University of Galway is a dynamic and practice-rich programme based at the O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance. It blends critical study with hands-on theatre-making, allowing students to shape their learning across areas such as Irish drama, playwriting, directing, applied theatre, and performance theory.

Applied Theatre and Education
By taking the Applied Theatre and Education programme from University of Derby refers to the practice of theatre and drama in non-traditional settings and/or with marginalised communities politically, educationally and socially.