Highlights
This course offers you the opportunity to explore many roles onstage and behind the scenes as you investigate what makes drama tick. You'll learn about what's come before in the history of drama so you can change what happens next. You'll combine theory, skills and practice as you explore the rich possibilities that theatre and performance hold to entertain, engage and transform our view of the world. You'll collaborate with others to create new performances that are built to surprise.
Theatre necessarily combines many fields of creative practice, so drama graduates tend to be curious, versatile and able to adapt quickly to a rapidly changing creative environment. They're the people we call on to find out not only why, but how drama works.
Why choose this course?
If you are interested in exploring practical careers in directing, designing, teaching, devising, creative producing and administration, or performing in a range of experimental theatre forms, then this course is for you. The course offers flexibility and breadth, combining creative experiences in performance making with highly relevant theoretical studies that will connect you with contemporary performance both nationally and globally.
Previous graduates have had a dynamic impact on the development of the Australian creative industries sector, and our most recent graduates are at the heart of the exciting growth in the independent theatre sector in Australia.
Real-world learning
It's important to make strong industry connections from the start of your career. That's why you'll be taught by industry professionals who are making performances right now. Their expertise and passion will inspire and guide you as you collaborate with talented students within your cohort. The professional networks you establish will assist you throughout your career.
The flexible nature of the course means you can combine creative experiences in performance making with theoretical studies. This will allow you to get the most from classroom learning as you connect with contemporary performance both nationally and globally.
Careers and outcomes
As a multiskilled graduate you will seek to complement your artistic career with paid employment in related areas. Our graduates make new performance work and create new ways of looking at the world. They harness the collaborative power of groups of people to make things happen. This explains the dynamic impact they continue to have on the Australian creative industries, and the successful careers they've developed across the sector.
Graduates have established successful careers as playwrights, artistic directors, directors and designers or performers working across a variety of genres including physical theatre or music.
Double degrees
Combine drama with a second study area for greater career flexibility and opportunities in other industries. Consider a double degree with:
Check entry requirements for the Master of Teaching for specific teaching areas.
*Price shown is for indicative purposes, please
July 2025
Queensland University of Technology (QUT)
Gardens Point Campus & Kelvin Grove campus,
BRISBANE CITY,
Queensland,
4000, BRISBANE, Australia
*Price shown is for indicative purposes, please
February 2025
Queensland University of Technology (QUT)
Gardens Point Campus & Kelvin Grove campus,
BRISBANE CITY,
Queensland,
4000, BRISBANE, Australia
Students must have a pass in Australian Year 12 or equivalent.
Entry requirements may vary from country to country.
IELTS Academic score of 6.5 with Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking score of 6; TOEFL iBT score of 79 with Listening, reading score of 16, Writing score of 21 and Speaking score of 18; Pearson PTE (Academic) score of 58 with Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking score of 50; Cambridge English Advanced (CAE) score of 176 with Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking score of 169.
*There may be different IELTS requirements depending on your chosen course.
QUT is a young, research-intensive university, ranking in the top 200 universities globally (THE World University Rankings 2024).