76 Full-time PhD programmes in Drama

Embark on a journey that delves into cross-cultural, interdisciplinary explorations of performance, broadly defined. We offer a Theater and Performance Studies degree at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

Theatre from Louisiana State University is committed to provide students with the necessary tools to compete in a rapidly diversifying job market.

The Interdisciplinary PhD in Theatre and Drama program at Northwestern University is a cross-school program featuring faculty and coursework that span the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Visual and Performing Arts. 

The Ph.D. Drama - Theatre History, Theatre Criticism program at University of Washington provides comprehensive training in theatre and performance scholarship, embracing a wide definition of performance while maintaining rigorous training within a discipline core.

Drama at Kent is known for its dynamic and inclusive research community. Whether you are interested in acting, directing, physical theatre, accessibility and disability, history, dance, psychology, philosophy, gender, comedy, popular performance, or politics, we have the academic expertise to support your research. 

We develop scholar-artists engaged with performance in theatres, media, and the world. This Theatre research degree at University of Georgia encourages the integration of scholarship with the practice of dramatic art. Graduates teach at colleges across the US and abroad.

The MA and PhD programs in Theatre and Performance Studies at York University  emphasize our collective interest in theatre, performance, and cultural politics.

While studying for an MPhil or PhD in Drama at University of Lincoln, students have the chance to undertake independent research in an area of their choice, supervised and supported by a team of academics. A range of training opportunities enables the development of key research skills.

The Graduate Group in Performance Studies at University of California, Berkeley provides an interdisciplinary and individually crafted curriculum directed at advanced studies in the literatures, performances, cultural contexts, and theories of performance throughout the world. 

In achieving both artistic ambition and academic astuteness, prospective postgraduate theatre research students will join a thriving research environment. We offer a Theatre degree at University of Chichester.

This Drama and Film Studies degree programme is offered by the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Pretoria.

Professional Doctorate in Performing Arts at University of East London is intended for practitioners across a range of performance-based disciplines who wish to make their practice the basis for doctoral study; indicatively theatre directing, acting, dance, music or technical practice such as sound and lighting.

The Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Toronto offers graduate programs leading to the Doctor of Philosophy degree. The centre’s own core courses focus on the program fields of Dramatic Theory, Dramaturgy, and Theatre History.

One of the core values held by the University of New York in Prague is excellence in research. Offered at their partner, New York College Athens, in coordination with the University of Bolton, students will be able to earn their Ph.D. in Theatre and Performance.

Undertaking PhD in Drama and Performance from University of Essex study gives you the opportunity to engage with an area of drama, theatre, or performance in depth and at an advanced level. East 15 Acting School, with its growing research profile and internationally recognised research quality is an obvious home for such research.

The Theatre and Dance programme offered by University of Hawaii at Manoa develops advanced research expertise in performance, theatre, dance, and cultural studies.