This course is a practical vocational 1 year postgraduate of study for emerging artists intending to work professionally either in the UK or in their own country of origin; all aspects of the programme are focused on enabling the student to develop his or her professional practice as an individual artist, and to establish a network of professional contacts to promote the further development of their career on or before graduation; this programme is delivered in collaboration with Globe Education, Shakespeare�s Globe, and the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh with support and collaboration from Playwrights� Studio, Scotland and The National Theatre of Scotland; it is structured around 2 complementary pathways, one for actors and one for directors; two contrasting genre-based strands, of new writing and classical text; 1 unifying strand of professional practice.