Major and professional qualification:

Specialisation: Acting
Major: Theatre Arts
Qualification: MA in Acting

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Practical training courses:

The programme provides various forms of practice: the NBU Theatre productions or other professional theatres, cinema, television and radio productions, as well as forums of an interdisciplinary artistic nature.

International mobility:

The programme provides an opportunity for Erasmus+ international student mobility at universities in Great Britain, Germany, Greece and Finland, which enrich their experience by training and internships in a larger cultural context. Setting up joint educational formats with theatre academies and art schools in countries from the Balkan and Black Sea regions is also planned.

Graduate Student Competencies:

Graduates will have mastered knowledge and skills in:

• processes and trends in the art of the 20th and 21st centuries;

• methods for building a theatrical form typical of and developed in the 20th century;

• alternative interpretations of these methods as different creative know-how; use of the interdisciplinary approach in creating a theatrical and visual form and free handling in the aesthetics of boundary forms - physical theatre, visual performance and the theatre on the border with other sciences and arts;

• planning, implementation and analysis of work process;

• conducting, analysing constructively and evaluating a creative process;

• teamworking and developing original projects;

• constructing genre-specific theatrical forms based on dramaturgical, literary and non-literary material;

• developing projects: initial phase, work plan, management schemes, inside and outside the structures of repertory theatres.

Graduation:

Completion of studies takes place by defending a master’s dissertation or passing a state exam upon earning the required number of credits. The graduation process complies with the NBU Standard for Educational and Qualification Degree Completion.

Directing and Management Module Graduation Supplement

Graduates in Directing and Management Module complete their course of studies by directing a performance. Upon a contest held by a board at the end of June, the best proposal for a performance by a theatre directing graduate is selected and included in the repertoire of the NBU Study Theatre.

The conditions for a diploma performance to be included in the repertoire of the NBU Study Theatre are the following:

• a project submission to the Central Fund for Strategic Development (CFSD) or the Study Programmes Fund at the School of Graduate Studies; filling out the forms uploaded on the website in compliance with the strategic goals of NBU and the programme; expenses cover props and do not include royalties; the forms are submitted to the graduate mentor with a copy to Assoc. Prof. Petrova and Assoc. Prof. Ivanova for approval, the department board.

• The funds for copyright purchase have to be included in the budget of CFSD project. The copyright has to be settled in advance with the director of the performance and NBU.

• The performance has to be approved by an internal board at an annual competition in June, as part of a summer semester, or after the graduate is ready to stage a performance.

• To prepare and stage a performance, the graduate through his mentor can submit a project to the Study Programmes Fund at the School of Graduate Studies for up to BGN 500 funding to cover costs for costumes and decor.

• After the performance takes part in the competition, the Department Board of the Theatre Art and Society Programme decides on the NBU fund and a total amount of funding to be applied for.

• The performance has to be staged between 5 - 10 times at the NBU Theatre, the first five performances in front of an audience being on the stage of the NBU Theatre.

• Pre-signing of consents/agreements with copyright assignment teams to broadcast the performance online.

Department :

Theater