MA in Scriptwriting (Theatre and Digital Media) in Colchester United Kingdom | University of Essex

Enhance your scriptwriting skills by training alongside acclaimed, professional dramatists. Our MA Scriptwriting (Theatre and Digital Media) program helps you create a diverse collection of dramatic pieces, culminating in a complete original script for stage, screen, radio, or television - allowing you to refine and express your distinctive creative vision.
At Essex, we maintain that blending practical experience with theoretical knowledge provides profound insight into dramatic artistry. Through analyzing scripts and participating in hands-on workshops, you'll deepen your mastery of the writer's craft to generate innovative new works.
This program appeals to those aspiring to careers across arts, creative writing, and media sectors. Many alumni from our Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies have flourished as academics, professors, educators, publishing professionals, editors, reporters, arts coordinators, theatrical directors, drama consultants, and linguists.
We additionally provide PhD, MPhil, and MA by dissertation guidance across multiple literary traditions and critical approaches, encompassing most areas of early modern and contemporary English literature, along with several other languages.