Whether you're set to star on the stage or screen, or are keen to work behind the scenes, there's a performing arts course for you at Newcastle College. We offer exciting opportunities for aspiring performers, directors and technicians in every area of the arts and entertainment industry, with access to professional recording and rehearsal space.
All of our courses are based in the Performance Academy, a world-class training facility based in the heart of Newcastle. It offers a huge choice of performance spaces, from studios and rehearsal rooms to our 200-seat Peter Sarah Theatre and gig space The Venue, which hosts large-scale performances every year.
We're passionate about performing arts and will support you towards succeeding in your dream career every step of the way. You'll collaborate with like-minded students and industry-experienced tutors, to devise and deliver amazing performances, and get up close and personal with industry guests, from performers and producers to record labels and local venues.
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Performance and Production at Newcastle College
What can I do with a qualification in Performing and Production Arts?
Daily tasks:
- Plays pre-recorded music at nightclubs, discotheques, and private functions.
- Conducts interviews and prepares reports for news broadcasts, current affairs programmes and documentaries.
- Introduces and presents radio and television programmes, reads news bulletins and makes announcements.
- Trains animals to perform entertaining routines and may perform with them.
- Performs singing, comedy, acrobatic, illusion and conjuring routines.
- Assumes character created by a playwright or author and communicates this to an audience.
- Studies script, play or book and prepares and rehearses interpretation.
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Daily tasks:
- Demonstrates and directs dance moves, monitors and analyses technique and performance, and determines how improvements can be made.
- Participates in dance performance.
- Attends rehearsals to develop and practice dance routines for performance.
- Builds and maintains stamina, physical strength, agility and general health through fitness exercises and healthy eating.
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What can I do with a qualification in Performing and Production Arts?
Actors, Entertainers and Presenters
Daily tasks:
- Plays pre-recorded music at nightclubs, discotheques, and private functions.
- Conducts interviews and prepares reports for news broadcasts, current affairs programmes and documentaries.
- Introduces and presents radio and television programmes, reads news bulletins and makes announcements.
- Trains animals to perform entertaining routines and may perform with them.
- Performs singing, comedy, acrobatic, illusion and conjuring routines.
- Assumes character created by a playwright or author and communicates this to an audience.
- Studies script, play or book and prepares and rehearses interpretation.
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Dancers and Choreographers
Daily tasks:
- Demonstrates and directs dance moves, monitors and analyses technique and performance, and determines how improvements can be made.
- Participates in dance performance.
- Attends rehearsals to develop and practice dance routines for performance.
- Builds and maintains stamina, physical strength, agility and general health through fitness exercises and healthy eating.
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Meet our students and tutors
Ellie Sturrock
BA (Hons) Musical Theatre (Top-Up)"The facilities for the Musical Theatre course are top of the range! Compared to a lot of other drama schools or conservatoires, where the theatre halls or dance studios aren't up-to-date at all, the ones at Newcastle College University Centre are all fully modernised and larger than usual. It also helps having teachers who are willing to improvise with you and play around with your individual creative process - it's both inspiring and enjoyable to learn from them!"
Joshua Barrass
BA (Hons) Music Performance"My degree course is very practical and can be tailored to whatever individual students want to achieve. The units are all quite broad, so you get more opportunities to specialise and create whatever music you want. For me, the chance to explore and express my own musical interests make the degree course far more enjoyable, since all my assignments are much more open to interpretation."
Nicola Cutter
Skills Bootcamp in An Introduction to Technical Skills for Live Events"I haven’t done any study since 2000. Four kids later, I’m coming back to education now. For being just a 12-week course, we got such an incredible range of experiences, including 3 or 4 theatre visits, as well as the opportunity to work on the set-up for Beyonce’s gig at the Stadium of Light, which was amazing."
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Summer Graduation Ceremony 1 - Business, Policing and Sport students
Thursday 10th July 2025
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Thursday 10th July 2025
12:45pm - 4:15pm
Summer Graduation Ceremony 3 - Aviation, Energy, Engineering and Rail and Civil students
Thursday 10th July 2025
4:30pm - 8:00pm
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