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Production Arts & Stage Management

Our Production Arts & Stage Management course prepares young people to progress to work in theatre and studio arts departments and manage productions in both the stage and screen industries.

This free, full-time, post-16 course is underpinned by the Pearson BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma in Production Arts Practice, worth the equivalent of 3 A'levels.

This is a 2 year course.

Interested in creating things and developing a craft? Do you want to design costumes, sets, hair, make-up, props, and learn the skills to bring them to life? Do you want to work behind the curtain, in the workshop, in the gallery, in the greenroom, up in the gods managing the production? 

At BOA Stage and Screen Production we place significant emphasis on work-readiness, project based learning and industry collaboration, and our purpose-built curriculum has been designed in collaboration with major UK industry partners to ensure our students are genuinely "workshop-ready" when they leave us. The Production Arts & Stage Management course at BOA Stage and Screen Production academy is much, much more than the BTEC course alone, it is a passport into the industry.

Students at BOA Stage and Screen will undertake a sequence of live industry projects, working with major partners such as the Royal Shakespeare Company and The Old Rep Theatre, choosing roles, attending relevant workshops and classes, executing their duties, and keeping a journal and e-portfolio as evidence. For example every year our Year 13 students design, build and manage the major Xmas commercial production at the Old Rep Theatre!

The content of the journal and e-portfolio is regularly assessed against the BTEC Level3 Extended Diploma in Production Arts Practice, worth the equivalent of 3 A'levels.

Students will achieve the Foundation Diploma (worth 1.5 A’levels) at the end of their first year of study. They will then have the option to ‘top-up’ their BTEC to an Extended Diploma (worth 3 A’levels) in their second year of study.

This means students leave equipped with the qualifications, credits, experience and professional network they need to progress directly into the industry, or pursue further studies at the very best universities.