Postgraduate Courses
World-leading postgraduate training to take you to the next stage
Join a community of ambitious performers, directors, and creative practitioners pushing their work further. At LAMDA, postgraduate training is rigorous, collaborative, and deeply practical. Join us to refine your artistic identity, expand your professional experience, and meet the evolving demands of a career across stage, screen, or the wider creative industry.
Collaboration at a Higher Level
At LAMDA, ensemble is more than a teaching method. It’s how exceptional creative work is made. You’ll train alongside ambitious performers, directors, technicians, and makers who challenge and elevate each other every day. Through shared practice, experimentation, and production work, you’ll build the collaborative instincts and professional relationships the industry values most.
Advanced Training Through Real Practice
Postgraduate study at LAMDA is intensive, hands-on, and grounded in professional practice. You’ll spend your time rehearsing, making, performing, and refining your practice in studio and production environments that mirror the realities of the industry. Guided by leading practitioners, you’ll graduate with advanced skills, practical experience, and the confidence to sustain a creative career.
Ambition, Discipline, and Creative Growth
We’re looking for people with drive, curiosity, and the resilience to keep improving. Your academic background matters less than your attitude and commitment to the work. If you’re ready for intensive vocational training, you’ll fit right in. We actively welcome diverse voices, with scholarships available to help make LAMDA accessible to all.
Our MA Programmes
MA Classical Acting
Deepen your classical performance skills through intensive conservatoire training in voice, movement, text, and acting. Exploring Shakespeare alongside major European classical repertoire, you’ll develop the technical precision and cultural understanding needed to make classical theatre resonate with contemporary audiences. Through workshops, productions, and an industry-facing Shakespeare performance, you’ll graduate prepared to thrive.
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MA Musical Theatre
Push your performance further through world-class musical theatre training at LAMDA. Develop your voice through ensemble singing and one-to-one vocal tuition, train with leading industry choreographers, and strengthen your acting and movement technique. Through touring, a public production, and industry showcases, you’ll graduate ready for today’s musical theatre industry.
MA Directing
Train as a director through focused, collaborative, and practice-led work. Working closely with actors, assisting established directors, and leading your own public production, you’ll graduate with the skills, judgement, and confidence to lead work across the contemporary theatre and performance.
Our MFA Programmes
MFA Classical Acting
Designed for artists looking to extend their practice, our MFA explores classical acting through performance, pedagogy and research. You’ll investigate how classical texts can be interpreted, adapted and shared, while developing your own creative approach to the craft.
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MFA Musical Theatre
Designed for experienced performers looking to extend their practice, our MFA develops advanced musical theatre skills across acting, singing and dance, alongside opportunities to explore directing, teaching and research. You’ll deepen your understanding of the art form through performance and independent study, while developing your own creative approach to Musical Theatre.
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MFA Professional Acting
Step into advanced actor training across stage, screen, and audio, working in small groups on new writing and original ensemble projects. You’ll develop versatility through classical and contemporary work, including a professionally produced short film, graduating as an independent actor shaping your own creative practice and career.
Frequently Asked Questions
If you have any questions, take a look at the most asked ones below. You can find information about how to apply here, or if you need further help, you can contact our admissions team on [email protected]
LAMDA training is rigorous and intensive as we believe in helping nurture the next generation of trailblazers and creative artists. So in addition to acting ability, you’ll need to have a dedicated attitude and a limitless imagination.
We believe that drama is a collaborative art form and our training is based on the ethos of ensemble, so you’ll need to have a willingness to work in a group and the capability to be adaptive and receptive.
Our training is thorough and so we’ll also be looking for a readiness to work hard.
Each course page has a detailed description of the different criteria.
We welcome applications from everyone, regardless of ethnicity, religion, gender or if you have any disabilities, as long as you are passionate about developing your talent and learning new skills.
If you’re applying for one of our MA or MFA courses, you will need a BA degree or equivalent, or relevant professional experience.
Please let us know in advance if you need any adjustments or special requirements made to your audition due to a disability. If you have a disability that is not visible, for example dyslexia or epilepsy, please let the LAMDA Registrar know so that we can make sure any facilities are available for you if appropriate. Any information you give us won’t affect your application and will remain confidential. We’ll only let other staff members know with your permission.
All teaching staff are experienced and active industry professionals. In addition, many key staff hold, or are working towards, Fellowship or Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (now Advance HE).
Teaching takes place at LAMDA in Barons Court, west London, although course components may be offered either by blended learning (a mix of online and onsite delivery) or entirely online.
Our student and academic services team provides access to a full range of appropriate academic support, including study skills, support for learners with dyslexia or dyspraxia, and other physical equipment or software needed to support you.
Student and academic services also arrange access to any specialist help needed to support your physical or mental wellbeing, such as physiotherapy, vocal health or counselling. You’ll also have free online support with our digital health and well-being platform.
LAMDA was granted permanent degree awarding powers in 2025. All students will be working towards qualifications awarded by LAMDA.
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