MA Stage Directing
Leave with a director's book for a one-act
Conferred under the Polish Law on Higher Education with European ECTS Diploma Supplement.
ApplyAcademic Overview
Rehearsal craft for small rooms: text, company care, design conversations, and the technical rehearsal. Warsaw's small stages are the scale. You are not promised a festival slot. The project is a director's book another stage manager could follow. MA Stage Directing is taught as one award, not a list of unrelated modules. The published length is 18 months, and the credit total is 36. Students move from Text in the room through Text in the room; Company care; Design conversation; Casting; Technical rehearsal; Director's book, and finish on Director's book. Each course has a question, a method, and a submission. In this field, students apply the method of the subject to a defined problem and defend the result. Reading is a core text, a case or dataset, and a critique. The artefact a marker expects is a submission that shows the method, the evidence, and the limit of the claim. The award is built so that a graduate can do the following in practice: Mark a text for action Write a rehearsal schedule Brief a designer in one page Teaching assumes the student can read a source, attempt a problem before the seminar, and revise after feedback. Attendance at live seminars is part of the design. The capstone or final course must use the methods of the earlier courses; a project that ignores them does not pass. The pages for each course name the topics that are examined. Those topics are the syllabus. A brochure line is not a substitute for them.
The degree is awarded directly by IU International University of Applied Sciences, seated in Warsaw, Poland. Studies are conducted in full alignment with Polish and European academic standards.
Curriculum & Core Modules
The curriculum comprises 36 ECTS credits structured across progressive academic modules:
Text in the room
Company care
Design conversation
Casting
Technical rehearsal
Director's book
Teaching & Assessment Methodology
Online Pathway
Asynchronous learning via the university LMS, digital library access, faculty-led virtual seminars, and proctored online assessments.
Warsaw Campus Pathway
In-person lectures, tutorial seminars, and laboratory sessions at Prosta 20, Warsaw, with full campus facility access.
Career Trajectories
- Assistant director
- Fringe company director
- Rehearsal director
- Literary assistant
- Youth theatre director
European Campus & Academic Facilities
Seated at Prosta 20 in Warsaw, IU International University of Applied Sciences offers state-of-the-art academic lecture halls, digital research repositories, and vibrant collegiate spaces for both on-campus and international distance scholars.
Main academic building at Prosta 20, Warsaw.
Collegiate courtyard and research study spaces.
Academic facilities and faculty laboratory suites.
Degree Recognition, NAWA & EDINAC Accreditation
Degrees from IU International University of Applied Sciences are awarded under the statutory framework of the Republic of Poland and the European Bologna Process (ECTS). Qualification transparency and international academic mobility are supported within the framework of NAWA (Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange) and European ENIC-NARIC networks. Furthermore, the university holds Tier 1 Full International Accreditation from EDINAC (Ref: EIAC/QA/PL/2000-IU) with immutable cryptographic diploma verification on edinac.org.