What you will learn
- A detailed understanding of key performance/entertainment components within the discipline, to include: ideational sources, body, space, image, sound, text, movement, environment
- How to create effective structure within a scene, how to edit your scene, and think like a dramaturg/script editor; how to create effective character
- Advanced awareness of the relevant market and distribution demands of entertainment industries
- Developed advanced self-management skills to include working in planned and improvisatory ways, as well as the ability to anticipate and accommodate change, ambiguity, creative risk-taking, uncertainty and unfamiliarity
- Specialised knowledge of histories, forms, and traditions of writing for performance and entertainment as well as the cultural contexts of innovative practitioners and practices within performance and entertainment.
Program Overview
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8 graduate-level courses
9 months
8 - 10 hours per week
Discounted price: $2,152.80
Pre-discounted price: $2,392USD
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Courses in this program
UniversityofCambridge's Writing for Performance and the Entertainment Industries MicroMasters® Program
- Finding your voice as a playwright
- Writing successfully for the Stage
- Building your Screenplay
- Business Success in the Screen Industries
- Digital Platforms in Performance
- Reconceiving Space: Installation and Performance Art
- Stand Up!; Comedy Writing and Performance Poetry
- Capstone: Bringing it all together
- Certificate & Credit Pathways
- Job Outlook
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