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The University of Edinburgh: Playwriting

Institution The University of Edinburgh View institution profile
Department School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
Web https://www.ed.ac.uk/studying
Email futurestudents@ed.ac.uk
Telephone 0131 650 4360
Study type Taught

Summary

Led by award-winning playwright, director and dramaturge Nicola McCartney, our MSc in Playwriting offers a high level of contact with the theatre industry. It will appeal to emerging playwrights, directors, dramaturges, performance artists and critics.

The programme focuses not only on the craft of writing for performance, but also on how a script plays out in real space and time, and in front of an audience.

You will be taught through a dynamic combination of seminars, workshops, one-to-one supervision and professional masterclasses by some of Europe’s leading playwrights and theatre artists.

Previous collaborators include world famous and award-winning practitioners such as:

  • Cora Bissett

  • Sir Michael Boyd

  • Gregory Burke

  • Kai Fischer

  • Tanika Gupta

  • Philip Howard

  • Rosie Kellagher

  • Lucy Kirkwood

  • Matthew Lenton

  • Linda McLean

  • Orla O'Loughlin

  • Adura Onashile

  • Robin Soanes

  • John Tiffany

A core component of the degree is a series of workshops, facilitated by Playwrights' Studio Scotland, to develop your own work with professional actors and directors.

Why Edinburgh

Edinburgh is a theatre city, home to the world’s largest theatre festival and a lively, thriving and diverse year-round theatre scene.

As a student on the Playwriting MSc programme, you will benefit from established links with leading theatres and organisations, including:

  • Traverse Theatre (Scotland’s new writing theatre)

  • the Royal Lyceum (one of the UK’s leading repertory theatres)

  • Playwrights' Studio Scotland

The University of Edinburgh has a long and rich tradition of student drama. Based in Bedlam Theatre, the oldest student-run theatre in the UK, the Edinburgh University Theatre Company has helped to develop an array of outstanding theatrical talent over the years, with alumni making reputations and careers in professional theatre.

By the end of the programme, you will have written at least two short works and one full-length piece for live performance.

MSc

Edinburgh. Extraordinary futures await.

The University of Edinburgh is one of the world's top universities, consistently ranked in the world top 50, and placed 22nd in the 2024 QS World University Rankings.

Our position as one of Britain’s leading research universities was reaffirmed by the results of the 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF). The University of Edinburgh is one of the world’s top research-intensive universities, ranked 4th in the UK for research power (Times Higher Education, Overall Ranking of Institutions), with 90% of our research activity classified as world leading or internationally excellent in the 2021 Research Excellence Framework.

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