Course Titles:
Theatre Design (16 x 3 yrs, full time) - BA (Hons) Degree
Theatre Design (4 x 1 yr, full time) - Postgraduate Diploma
Stage Management (18 x 3 yrs, full time) - BA (Hons) Degree
Stage Management (6x1 yr, full time) - Postgraduate Diploma

Validating Body: University of Glamorgan
Hours per week: 35 hours minimum
Places: 16 / 4 / 18 / 6 / 2
Entry requirements: Please see the College web site. Final selection for all courses is via an interview process and (Theatre Design only) portfolio presentation.
Minimum age: BA (recommended) 18, Postgraduate Diploma (recommended) 21.
Closing Dates:
Degrees:
UCAS Route 'A' - 15th January
UCAS Route 'B' (Theatre Design only) - 24th March
Postgraduate Diploma Theatre Design: - 31st March
Postgraduate Diploma Stage Management - 15th November
School Principal: Edmund Fivet
Course Leader: (Theatre Design) Sean Crowley
                           (Stage Management: David Roxburgh)

COURSE DESCRIPTIONS:
BA (Hons) Theatre Design
Validated by the University of Glamorgan
Three years, full time.

The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama offers professional training in specialist areas of set and costume design and realisation, equipping students with the relevant knowledge and skills-set to maximise their employment potential within the theatre, film, television and related performance-design industries.

In the truly theatrical setting of a music and drama college, design students at RWCMD contribute to the College's full programme of public performance including mainstream and alternative theatre, opera and musical theatre. The College houses a main theatre and two studio theatres, and regularly stages productions at professional external venues, providing valuable opportunities for students to work in a variety of performance spaces.

The Theatre Design Department also mounts a major site-specific production each summer involving puppetry in performance.

In addition to performance-centred work, a series of conceptual projects provide students with the opportunity to explore their creative identity unhindered by practical limitations.

Graduating students exhibit their work at showcases in Cardiff and London during their final term.

All College productions and projects are supervised by designers and design practitioners from within the industry, and students also benefit from the experience of working alongside professional theatrical directors, reflecting the practices and conditions of the professional environment.

The department enjoys excellent rates of graduate employment, recent graduates having undertaken work with companies as diverse as Aardman Animation, Bristol Old Vic, Salisbury Playhouse, Northampton Theatre Royal, Disney Corporation, No Fit State Circus, HTV, BBC, S4C, Vienna Opera House, the Royal Ballet and the Royal Shakespeare Company.


Postgraduate Diploma Theatre Design
One year, full time.

This is a year of intense creative saturation aimed at those with a degree in an art and design wishing to establish a career in professional design for performance.

With tutorial guidance, students are able to design a timetable tailored to their individual needs and goals. Skills and project classes may be selected from a range of options including technical drawing, pattern cutting, costume construction, millinery, CAD, Photoshop, model making, scenic art and props making, to prepare each student for the realised production work in their second and third terms.

Graduating students exhibit their work at showcases in Cardiff and London during their final term.