The Art And Craft of Directing

“Directing is the best job in the world”

Three terms. Weekly online specialist training course

For directors, writers and original content creators.

With John Osborne Hughes

• Term One - Tuesdays, 3rd October - 12th December 2023, 6.30 - 9pm UK
  (No class on 31st October for half term)
• Term Two - Tuesdays, 16th January - 26th March 2024, 6.30 - 9pm UK
  (No class on 27th February for half term)
• Term Three - Tuesdays, 23rd April - 2nd July 2024, 6.30 - 9pm UK
  (No class on 28th June for half term)

The course is designed to provide you with the fundamental knowledge and skills to kick start your journey into the wonderful world of directing, for both stage and screen.

The job of a director is make all the key creative decisions and to bring together the elements of the production into a cohesive totality. Whilst the writer is the author of the play or screenplay, the director is the author of the production as a whole.

The director is also responsible for managing rehearsals and working with the actors to help then create the characters and polish their performances.

Rather than just focussing on directing skills, the course is designed to produce auteurs; artists that develop their unique artistic vision and create and write their own material.

Working with the support of the group, each student will be guided to write and direct a 4 to 10 minute drama scene or, for the more ambitious, a short film.

For a minimal extra cost, the projects can then be filmed and edited for use as a showreel, utilising the relationship we have with graduates from the Brit School film production course.