On Course: ALRA MA in Directing

Course Director Chris Hill (Technical Theatre BA Guildhall, MA in Directing at Birkbeck) has a background in both Opera scenography and dance and worked at West Yorkshire Playhouse before drawing on all his interests and talents in the design of this course. He is proud of its cultural diversity and its bespoke qualities that will allow the director's creative voice to flourish. The theatre world is increasingly seeing the blurring of dramatic forms where new play texts use digital technology in innovative ways. ALRA North embraces this wholeheartedly with much emphasis on recorded film, television and radio work. Chris Hill is very excited about the alternative approach to text based direction and he strongly advocates a ‘pragmatic awareness of technical theatre which feeds the creative whole’ and helps make ALRA graduates so employable.