文学，电影和戏剧研究系的戏剧和戏剧由一群充满活力的剧作家和戏剧从业者领导，他们全都在戏剧行业和大学教学中专业工作。有五名全职员工，专门从事逐字剧院，表演，世界剧院，数字剧院，证词剧院和编剧等领域。研究型学生还将受益于我们科尔切斯特校区湖滨剧院的设施。这个剧院已经建立了很多年，是演戏的主要场所，并以致力于舞台创作而闻名。它的工作室可容纳30名观众，主馆可容纳200名观众。许多专业的巡回演出公司将其新剧本的制作带到我们的湖畔剧院，并且员工和学生还制作了许多新作品。
Theatre and Drama in the Department of Literature, Film and Theatre Studies is led by a vibrant group of playwrights and theatre practitioners who all work professionally in the theatre industry alongside their University teaching. There are five full time staff who specialise in areas such as verbatim theatre, performance, world theatre, digital theatre, theatre of testimony as well as playwrighting.<br>Research students also benefit from the facilities at the Lakeside Theatre at our Colchester Campus. This theatre has been established for many years as a major venue for good drama and is known for its commitment to new writing for the stage. It has a studio with an audience capacity of 30 and a main house capacity of 200. Many professional touring companies bring their productions of new plays to our Lakeside Theatre and there has been a wealth of new work produced by staff and students.<br><br>A number of our Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies graduates have gone on to undertake successful careers as writers. Other past research students are now established as scholars, university lecturers, teachers, publishers, publishers editors, journalists, arts administrators, theatre artistic directors, drama advisers, and translators.