News, Updates and Announcements from Central
News, updates and announcements from Central
On Thursday 12 and Friday 13 September, The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and Shakespeare’s Globe co-hosted two days of events to comabat racism in theatre practice.
Congratulations to Central’s Knowledge Exchange Fellow Dr Naomi Paxton, who has been awarded the prestigious TaPRA Early Career Research Prize.
On Monday 12 August, Central was delighted to welcome the winners of its Prop Doughnut Competition to the School for a special prop making workshop.
Congratulations to Central’s Senior Lecturer in Voice, Daron Oram, who has been named one of 54 new National Teaching Fellows for 2019.
On 13 August 2019, The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama hosted its annual Central in Edinburgh party at the Scottish Arts Club. This event celebrates the involvement of its staff, students and alumni in productions running at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and this year the School also took the opportunity to confer Honorary Fellowship on William Burdett-Coutts.
MA Acting Students Perform in ‘The Cherry Orchard’ and ‘Bones’
On 31 July, Costume Construction student Yiran Duan led a special making session at Central to share her practice in the traditional Bai methods of stich resistant tie-dying.
From July 18 – 20 2019, Central hosted Professor Anne Bogart for her Leverhulme Conference entitled “Training for the Future: Actor Training and Director Pedagogy for the 21st Century”. The conference concluded Professor Bogart’s year-long Visiting Professorship at Central and considered contemporary actor training since Stanislavsky, interrogating whether the notion of a comprehensive, methodological system still exists.
Throughout the Spring term, 2nd year students on Central’s Drama, Applied Theatre and Education course worked with over 4,200 participants across the UK and beyond as a part of their Collaborative Outreach projects.
Nominations for the 71st annual Primetime Emmy Awards, which celebrate excellence within the television industry, have been announced and Central is delighted to congratulate our many alumni recognised this year.
From 1 – 4 July, Central hosted the 2019 Brink Festival, “At The Risk Of…” featuring nine events disrupting preconceptions of performance, and performed by emerging practitioners from around the world.
Congratulations to Central student Khai Ramli, who has been selected for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe’s Emerging Producers Development Programme.