Performing arts

Our performing arts degree courses will help you develop the skills you’ll need to meet the highest professional standards of the industry while visiting professionals will enrich your learning experience with master classes and mock auditions.

What's more, our West London campus is situated just a short Tube ride from West End theatres and is surrounded by a plethora of professional fringe and community theatres.

Browse our performing arts courses below, learn about some of our alumni's alumni achievements, check out our amazing facilities and discover a selection of potential jobs for performing arts graduates.

A student performs on stage

Performing arts alumni

Students perform a musical

Recent UWL performing arts alumni have progressed on to a wide array of careers and performing arts jobs.

On the stage, recent graduates have gone on to work in the following West End & Broadway shows:

  • Aladdin, & Juliet, A Strange Loop, The Band, The Barber Shop Chronicles, Book Of Mormon Calendar Girls, Choir Of Man, Dear England, The Deep Blue Sea, For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When The Hue Gets Too Heavy, Horrible Histories, Jersey Boys, Kinky Boots, The Lehman Trilogy, Les Miserables, The Lion King, Motown, Next to Normal, Oklahoma, Six, The SpongeBob Musical, Standing At The Sky’s Edge, The Time Traveller’s Wife, The Tina Turner Musical. 
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As well as the following shows across the UK and the rest of the world:

  • Beautiful – The Carole King Musical, Billionaire Boy, Boys Who Cry, Brief Encounter, Collabro, Dead Lies, Dreamgirls, Friends! The Musical, Glastonbury Festival, Grease, The Great Gatsby, Hairspray, Heathers, Jekyll & Hyde (NT), Kinky Boots, Les Miserables, Matilda, On Your Feet! The Musical, Our Lady Of Kibeho, The Rocky Horror Show, Six, Sleepless, Spice Girls Experience, Spring Awakening, Starlight Express, Teletubbies Live, This Is Elvis, We Will Rock You.
View from behind a video camera filming a scene

UWL graduates have also worked on the following television shows and films:

  • The Baby, Britain’s Got Talent, Comic Relief, The Crown, Doctors, Dune, Eastenders, Coronation Street, Eurovision Song Contest, Father Brown, FBI: International, Grace, Heartstopper, Hope Street, It’s A Sin, Katla, Malpractice, Mamma Mia! I Have A Dream, Pennyworth, Rivals, Rocketman, Silent Witness, Sister Boniface Mysteries, War Of The Worlds, Wedding Season, and The X Factor.
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Additionally...

Students have forged hugely successful careers in the following areas:

  • pantomime
  • cruises
  • audio books
  • theatre in education
  • music videos
  • TV and online commercials
  • allied creative and business functions (directors, agents, producers, teachers, etc.)

Performance spaces

Our high-quality performance spaces include Lawrence Hall and Vestry Hall.

Lawrence Hall

A fully equipped 200 seat black box studio theatre featuring a collapsible racked seating system, extensive modular staging, theatre lighting and concert sound systems. Control systems by Ion and Digico. Multiple channel wireless mics by Sennheiser.

Live sound setup at Lawrence Hall

Lawrence Hall's concert level PA is a FBT Line array flown system capable of supporting full amplified concert sound.

The hall features a Steinway Concert Grand piano.

Two performers at Vestry Hall at the the London College of Music

Vestry Hall is a classical music performance space featuring a Steinway B Concert Grand piano, concert tuned percussion and variable seating for 150.

A Steinway piano at the University of West London

Vestry Hall is connected to Vestry Hall studio 1 to allow recording of concerts and performances. There is a Soundfield Surround microphone installed for ambient surround recording.

Lawrence Hall

A fully equipped 200 seat black box studio theatre featuring a collapsible racked seating system, extensive modular staging, theatre lighting and concert sound systems. Control systems by Ion and Digico. Multiple channel wireless mics by Sennheiser.

Live sound setup at Lawrence Hall

Lawrence Hall's concert level PA is a FBT Line array flown system capable of supporting full amplified concert sound.

The hall features a Steinway Concert Grand piano.

Two performers at Vestry Hall at the the London College of Music

Vestry Hall is a classical music performance space featuring a Steinway B Concert Grand piano, concert tuned percussion and variable seating for 150.

A Steinway piano at the University of West London

Vestry Hall is connected to Vestry Hall studio 1 to allow recording of concerts and performances. There is a Soundfield Surround microphone installed for ambient surround recording.

Where can a performing arts degree take you?

A group of Musical Theatre students in 80s themed costumes performing a song on stage.

A performing arts degree  can open up career paths and lead to performing arts jobs in a wide range of areas including:

  • theatre industry: performing, directing, writing, producing
  • theatre organisations: arts administration, education and outreach officer, literary department, fundraising
  • education: teacher (PGCE/ teacher training), teaching and learning assistant, arts education organisation, theatre in education company
  • cultural heritage sector: engagement professional at museums and community heritage centres.