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Email academic.registry@tcd.ieThis three-year honours degree offers practice-based training to students who are interested in a career in professional theatre, TV and film. It has been enhanced to provide increased opportunities in specialist areas within stage management and technical theatre (such as sound, lighting and construction), increased professional placements and a capstone research project. Classes on production management, design (set, lighting, costume and sound) and managing your own freelance business will also be introduced during the final year.
Students who undertake this course will need to have a keen interest in stage management, production management, lighting, sound, construction, prop making, costume or set design. This is an intensive course requiring a commitment on average of 35 hours per week, 38 weeks per year.
This degree is specifically designed to train technical staff for the theatre, TV and film industries. Through a series of skills based courses, placements and professional development programmes the course aims to equip students with the necessary skills to realise a professional theatre production. The practical training during the degree course is complemented with a range of classes including theatre history, principles of stage management and principles of theatre technology. Led by dedicated and experienced theatre technicians and stage managers these classes will reflect best practices in professional theatre.
Stage manager, assistant stage manager, lighting operator, sound operator, costume supervisor, scene and prop maker are just a few of the roles our graduates emerge from our course with the core competencies to succeed in. Others have secured stage management and theatre technician jobs with theatre companies touring nationally and internationally, or technical jobs with companies that support the theatre, TV and film industries such as PSI and Avcom.
First year is designed to introduce students to practice-based training in all technical departments, including lighting, sound, prop making, scenic art, costume, set construction and stage management. Core skills-based classes in theatre skills, theatre technologies and theatre studies will be complemented by practice based learning on in-house productions.
Second year will see students apply the skills learned from their first year to a series of theatre and film productions, directed and designed by professional practitioners. Each student will have the opportunity to become a head of department and work alongside their peers to deliver a full production.
In Year Three students will undertake work placements with prominent theatre companies, festivals and industry related companies in order to further develop their chosen area of specialism. Capstone research projects will be assigned according to the preferred career choice of each individual student. Further opportunities as head of department on shows and internal projects are offered in this year.
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This is a restricted entry course. Applications must be submitted by the beginning of February each year. This course is taught by The Lir National Academy of Dramatic Art at Trinity. It is not part of the CAO application system. Application forms can be completed online on The Lir Academy website: www.thelir.ie
Join The Lir's Technical Director, Barry Conway, to learn about the three-year degree programme that prepares you for a backstage career in the Arts, Film, TV Live Performance and Entertainment industries.
Entry is by interview and everyone who applies will get an interview. The interview is an opportunity for you to demonstrate your passion, ability and understanding for this training and the type of work it will lead to. No experience necessary. Interviews will be held between November and June each year.
All applicants to Trinity are required to provide official evidence of proficiency in the English language. Applicants to this course are required to meet Band B (Standard Entry) English language requirements. For more details of qualifications that meet Band B, see the English Language Requirements page here.
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If you want to do stage management or any sort of technical theatre this is where you come, because the training that you get, you won’t get anywhere else. It’s very busy and I really enjoyed it, it’s a lot of fun so it doesn’t feel like work a lot of the time.
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