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Drama and Performing Arts Creator
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What this course establishes
- Develop a performable dramatic work from premise through beat, scene, character-action, revision and rights-aware production draft
- Rehearse, act and direct with playable objectives, repeatable staging, consent-based boundaries, inclusive communication and documented notes
- Build and run a safe accessible fictional production through stage-management controls, technical cueing, rights clearance, audience access, quality checks and incident-ready operations
Entry knowledge
- Comfort reading scripts and collaborating in groups
- Basic writing and file-management skills
- Ability to follow rehearsal and venue safety directions
Scope boundaries
- Uses fictional scripts, people, venues, agreements and production records; it does not authorize unsupervised fights, falls, lifts, flying, rigging, weapons, pyrotechnics, smoke/haze, electricity, intimacy, nudity, strenuous choreography, medical effects, work at height or other hazardous activity
- Does not replace a qualified director, stage manager, intimacy professional, fight director, choreographer, movement/voice specialist, dramaturg, designer, rigger, electrician, weapons/pyrotechnics specialist, accessibility consultant, clinician, union representative, rights licensor, insurer, fire/venue authority or attorney
Fastest competency route
Completion is self-paced and competency-based. Prior theatre experience shortens study only when every writing, performance, rehearsal, consent, stage-management, technical, safety, accessibility, rights and operational criterion is demonstrated; no fixed duration, employment, union eligibility, certification, casting, production approval, venue approval, audience size or commercial result is promised.
- Pass diagnostics in dramatic structure, character action, text analysis, rehearsal, consent, staging, stage management, cueing, access, rights and technical safety
- Complete the synthetic production audit and a staged fictional ten-minute work with script, prompt book, access plan, rights matrix and safety evidence
- Correct every premise, beat, continuity, consent, blocking, fight/intimacy, rigging, electrical, noise, cue, emergency, caption, description, rights, recording, version and archive defect
Full self-paced route
- Dramatic development, structure, character, research and revision
- Acting, directing, rehearsal, consent and inclusive ensemble practice
- Stage management, technical systems, safety, access, rights and performance operations
- Applied production portfolio and final assessment
Lesson and assessment map
Dramatic premise, action, structure, research, and revision
Create a production-ready short dramatic work whose events, character actions, evidence and revisions are legible to collaborators.
4 questions: recall, application, judgment, and error correction.
Acting analysis, directing, staging, consent, and ensemble rehearsal
Build repeatable performances and stage pictures through playable direction, documented boundaries and accessible collaboration.
4 questions: recall, application, judgment, and error correction.
Stage management, cue systems, technical safety, accessibility, rights, and performance operations
Operate a controlled fictional performance with one authoritative prompt book, safe technical boundaries, accessible audience assets and auditable rights.
4 questions: recall, application, judgment, and error correction.
Required applied assignment
Develop, rehearse, and operate an accessible fictional short production
Create and document a 6–10 minute fictional dramatic work using the supplied synthetic production audit. Present it only through safe classroom-scale reading/blocking: no independent fight, intimacy, weapon, rigging, flying, trap, height, pyrotechnic, smoke/haze, exposed electricity or hazardous effect. Every higher-risk element must be replaced, simulated safely or referred to qualified supervision. The work remains a draft until qualified artistic, safety, accessibility and rights review is complete.
- Premise, event/beat map, character-action sheets, continuity and research/provenance ledgers, rights questions, numbered script and revision log
- Actor score, director staging plan, rehearsal schedule/reports, consent and boundary record, specialty referral, notes log and understudy handoff
- Authoritative prompt book, cue/preset/run sheets, hazard register, qualified-person and emergency/hold plan, performance and correction reports
- Audience/backstage access plan, accessible program and recorded-media equivalents, rights/media matrix, archive manifest and checksums
Passing standard: 85 of 100 points, with substantive revision required.
Continue after this course
- Acting, directing, playwriting, dramaturgy, devising, stage management, design, technical theatre, dance, musical theatre or applied theatre
- Advanced voice/movement, intimacy, stage combat, choreography, accessibility, production management and audience development
- Contracts, unions, licensing, public performance, nonprofit/commercial producing and jurisdiction-specific entertainment safety