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Royal Central School of Speech and Drama

Writing for Stage and Broadcast Media

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Award Attendance Study Duration Start Domestic fees International fees
MA On-Campus Full-time - 1 years October £11550 per year £22050 per year
MFA On-Campus Full-time - 2 years October £11550 per year £22050 per year
MA On-Campus Part-time - 2 years October £5775 per year £11025 per year
Course fee notes

Current fees for The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama can be found here: https://www.cssd.ac.uk/fees-and-funding/tuition-fees-and-additional-costs

About Writing for Stage and Broadcast Media, MA - at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama

The MA/MFA Writing for Stage and Broadcast Media offers a vocational training in writing drama across a range of different media contexts. 

Both the MA and MFA courses provide the opportunity for you to develop the core competencies and skills of the dramatist, to explore your ‘voice’, to develop your confidence in your own writing and to understand the different media contexts within which you might work as a professional scriptwriter. 

  • Train to write drama for different media including theatre, film, television and radio 
  • Study the history of dramatic writing and explore its future 
  • Work with actors and be taught by industry professionals

In the past, students have also had the opportunity to study optional units on writing within other contexts, for example, writing with, and for, communities (in collaboration with the MA Applied Theatre). 

Key features of the course

  • Practice-based enquiry into techniques and processes for writing for stage and screen; 
  • A series of writing projects engaging with different styles and media formats; 
  • Research into dramatic writing techniques and issues of performance in relation to theatre, cinema, television, radio and other relevant contexts. 


Entry requirements

Contact Royal Central School of Speech and Drama to find course entry requirements.


Why study at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama

Specialised training, preparing you for a career in the arts 

Our mission is to inspire, educate and train the performers, practitioners and creatives who will shape the future of theatre and the performing arts.