Join our prospective student mailing list

It was announced on Monday 6 January 2025 that the Theatre School has suspended recruitment to all undergraduate programmes: BA Professional Acting, BA Stage Management and Film & TV Productions, FdA/BA Costume for Theatre, TV & Film. This decision does not effect the delivery of our postgraduate courses, short courses or youth activity. The full statement is available to read at oldvic.ac.uk/news.

If you are interested in applying and want to keep up to date with the latest information about our courses, forthcoming open days and news from Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, then please fill in the form and sign up to our prospective student mailing list below.

Data Statement

The personal information you supply may be used to help us respond to your enquiries, and for quality assurance and market research purposes. Unless required by law, your data will not be shared with or sold to any organisation outside the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, apart from those that help us to provide this service.

Your personal information will be kept in a secure database for no more than seven years. You have the right to request a copy of the information that we hold about you. You may also ask us to correct or remove any information you think is inaccurate. Please get in touch by emailing student-recruitment@oldvic.ac.uk to request this information or ask for a correction.

Should you change your mind at any point, that’s no problem. You can get in touch with us at student-recruitment@oldvic.ac.uk to request that the personal information you supplied is no longer used in this way and/or if you would like us to delete your information from our records.

For more information on how the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School uses your personal data, please read our privacy policy. If you believe that the School is not fully complying with data protection requirements, you have the right to make a complaint to the Information Commissioner’s Office.

I absolutely love working backstage. It was something I had never done before arriving at BOVTS and I'm so grateful for the opportunity. Madi Barncoat, BA Costume Student