Careers
According to a recent
survey we conducted, more than 70% of our alumni go on to work in
the creative industries or education.
Our graduates have worked
in some of the most prestigious theatres and theatre companies in
the world, including the Royal Court Theatre, the National Theatre,
the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal Opera House and Paris’s
Bouffes du Nord.
Many students go on to
work in creative industries outside the theatre. Hull drama
graduates have worked for the BBC, Channel 4, Sky and other
television companies, in radio, for events companies, for creative
and corporate enterprises and for public relations and promotions
companies. Many other students establish independent theatre
companies – often using the opportunities offered by final-year
production modules as a launching platform. Companies to have come
out of the department recently include Rash Dash,
Middle Child and Park Bench Poets.
Some of our students go
on to further study and professional training. Recent graduates
have been offered places at drama schools including the American
Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York, the Bristol Old Vic, the
London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and the Central School of
Speech and Drama. Others have gone on to undertake MA courses in
subjects as diverse as Text into Performance, Documentary
Television and Arts Journalism, PGCE and applied drama courses or
stay on and choose on of our our own tailored MA courses.
Some of our famous alumni
Anthony Minghella (1975), film-maker
Dame Jenni Murray (1971), presenter of BBC
Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour
Malcolm Sinclair (1971), actor and President
of Equity
Gordon Farquhar (1986), BBC radio sports
correspondent
Stuart Cosgrove (1974), Head of Programmes
(Nations and Regions), Channel 4
David Pritchard (1976), Head of Production,
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Marianne Elliott (1989), Associate Director,
National Theatre
Gillian Choa (1980), Head of Design, Hong Kong
Academy
Rosie Millard (1987), arts journalist
Indu Rubasingham (1992), theatre director
David Benedict (1980), London theatre
critic
Gary Yershon (1975), musical director
David Hanson (1978), MP and shadow
minister
David Brindley (2003), producer of Channel 4’s
One Born Every Minute
James Graham (2003), writer
Mark Charnock (1988) and Sian Reese-Williams
(2003), actors in Yorkshire Television’s Emmerdale
Tom Brooke (2000), actor
John Macmillan (2004), actor
Paul Arditti , (1976) Sound
Designer
Martin Lowe
(1986)Musical Director
Bob Carlton (1971)Writer and
Director Return to the Forbidden Planet
Robert Delamere (1986)
Director
Stewart Harcourt, (1986)
Screenwriter
Mark Bailey (1979)Theatre
Designer
Patsy Newey (1974)BBC
Executive Producer
Christopher Simpson, (1996)
actor
Sam Troughton (1998), actor
Hannah Chissick (1998), theatre director
Laurie Penry-Jones (1999), actor
Adrian Lukis (1982), actor
Sam Roukin (2002), actor
Patrick Lau (1978), television director
Simon Harrison (2002), actor
Zoe Boyle (2005), actor
Companies find our
graduates very employable because of the range of people,
managerial and administrative skills that they developed during
their three years with us. Since we give our students
responsibility and allow them to run most of the production
activity that takes place here (including their own drama festivals
and the annual Z Theatre Company’s tour to Edinburgh), it’s not
surprising that employers find Hull drama students to be creative
self-starters with well-honed practical skills who work well in a
team.
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