News

Central is excited to announce that it has once again been selected to take part in this year’s Big Give Christmas Challenge.  Between 30 November – 3 December, the School will be raising funds for Scholarships and Bursaries to support the next generation of Central students. With thanks to the Reed Foundation, all donations made to Central’s Scholarship and Bursary fund via the Big Give will be doubled, enabling the School to help twice as many students.   

Congratulations to The Theatre Times and the entire team behind this year’s International Online Theatre Festival, which has been named the second-place winner of the Culture Online International Award for “Best Online Project”.  

Central’s Dr Ella Parry-Davies and the Kanlungan Filipino Consortium have announced the launch of a new report and accompanying creative zine which reveal the impact of the ongoing COVID-19 crisis on invisible, undocumented workers on the frontline. 

On Saturday 6 November at 2.00pm Dr Naomi Paxton, Central’s Knowledge Exchange Fellow, will give a free, public talk at the Victoria & Albert Museum’s Lecture Theatre entitled ‘Will you, won’t you, will you, won’t you join the Suffrage dance?  Alice’s adventures in Edwardian activist theatre’. 

Congratulations to this year’s StART Enterprise Slam Award Winners, who were announced via a YouTube livestream hosted by Lyrix Organix on 4 October. The StART Enterprise Slam is an interactive alternative to Central’s annual Enterprise Award and forms part of the StART Entrepreneurship Project, a collaboration between Central, Royal Northern College of Music and University of the Arts London. 

Congratulations to Dr Kate Elswit, Central’s Reader in Theatre and Performance, and to the entire team behind research project "Dunham’s Data" (international co-investigator Dr Harmony Bench and postdoctoral research assistants Dr Tia-Monique Uzor and Dr Antonio Jimenez-Mavillard) on receiving the ATHE-ASTR’s Award for Excellence in Digital Scholarship.   

We sat down with the New York Based writing team Joanne Sydney Lessner and Joshua Rosenblum to discuss their production of 'Garbo & Me', which makes its world-premiere at Central (performed by a cast of MA Music Theatre students) between 2 - 4 November.

In advance of the launch of Black History 365, we sat down with Dr Javeria Khadija Shah to discuss her work, the premiere of documentary film 'My name is.' and how audiences can engage with this work in the coming year.

A roundup celebrating a selection of Central graduate’s news and successes, covering alumni award wins and nominations, and their numerous contributions in all areas of stage and digital theatre, television and film, as well as in the wider community.

To mark Black History Month, Central staff and students led by Dr Javeria Khadija Shah, Kim Myers, Rianna Simons and the School’s Inclusion Committee have worked to programme a series of events, activities and discussions.  Alongside these activities, a list of resources is provided which includes free external events with which staff and students can engage. 

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the world’s largest arts festival, is back for 2021 with a hybrid of both in person and online shows and events, and Central is delighted to celebrate the involvement of its students, staff and alumni in this year's festivities.

Throughout August, Central Research Fellow Dr Dani Ploeger will exhibit Disobedient Devices at the Nairobi National Museum in Kenya. Dr Ploeger has been working together with artists Greenman Muleh Mbillo and Joan Otieno since 2017 on their research project of the same name, funded by the Global Challenges Research Fund. The outcomes of their research will form the basis of the exhibit.