1 year
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Mountview’s diploma provides experienced students with the opportunity to develop theoretical, practical, creative and critical thinking skills. You will experience the challenge of a fast-paced production environment working on a broad range of projects and productions.
This is a one-year full-time vocational course and is ideal for students who wish to develop their experience and skills in management, theatre production arts or technical theatre through practical work in professional theatre environments. Since the course is non-accredited, it does not attract any government funding.
Diploma students choose their preferred area of production arts to specialise in:
- Stage management
- Lighting
- Sound
Throughout the course you will develop your individual processes as a practitioner through a mix of workshops as well as collaborative and independent work, with regular appraisals to examine learning methods and set objectives.
You will undertake significant self-directed study and experience a range of performance environments working on Mountview productions and on professional placements. This provides excellent opportunities to gain important industry contacts and develop personal networks, both of which are key to your career progression.
‘What Does A Lighting Student Do?’ – watch here
Read an interview with one of our Lighting students here.
This course will run subject to re-approval by the University of East Anglia (UEA). This means the course is currently going through UEA’s process to confirm the course will lead to a UEA award. Course re-approval will take place in the Summer Term and is expected to be confirmed by August 2023. All courses validated by UEA are revalidated every five years through this re-approval process.