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We sat down with Dr Katharine Low to discuss the involvement that she and her students have had with the South African My Body My Space Festival, an annual festival of public performance and exhibitions that, for 2021, has moved into the virtual realm becoming the first arts festival to take place entirely on a dedicated WhatsApp line.

From Monday 22 - Friday 26, Central is partnering with the NHS to present the Student Knowledge Exchange Festival, a week-long celebration of the Student Knowledge Exchange project between the Central and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.  Across five days, staff and students will share their insights, learning, and achievements from these projects. 

Throughout Spring term the student, staff and alumni teams that collaborate to deliver Central’s Outreach programme to young people across the country have continued their work digitally, despite the national lockdown. 

Central is excited to announce the launch of series three of its Discover Central Podcast. The podcast takes an inside look at Central and introduces listeners to members of the School’s student, staff and alumni community.   

We sat down with students Karim Oliver Ghazzal and Becky Coote to discuss their involvement in this year's independently organised restART event and how they collaborated with their fellow Central students to deliver the fourth annual TEDxRoyalCentralSchool virtually, amidst a global pandemic. 

Recent BA (Hons) Theatre Practice graduates, Bethany Duke and Madeleine Young, were named finalists for The Evening Standard Future Theatre Fund.

Congratulations to Central’s Dr Katharine Low, Senior Lecturer in Community Performance and Applied Theatre, who has been awarded funding from the British Academy as a part of her involvement in two research projects. 

In February the Central Students’ Union, together with students from across the School, collaborated to create and present the first ever SU Fest. The festival showcased the collaborative work of 70+ Undergraduate and Postgraduate Central students from across the School’s courses.  It was the culmination of months of planning and collaboration, during lockdown, which brought Central’s students together to create new pieces of theatre.   

The Board of Governors of The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama  is  delighted to announce that  Josette Bushell-Mingo  OBE has  been appointed  as the  incoming  Principal of the School.  

Join Central’s students on Saturday, 13 February as they return with the fourth TEDxRoyalCentralSchool event, restART, this year streaming online to audiences in their own homes, wherever they are in the world. 

Central is pleased to announce, thanks to the generosity of an anonymous donor, a new series of major Scholarships to encourage applications from British students who identify as Black and Global Majority.  The Scholarships will help ensure that the diverse voices of our communities are represented amongst those benefitting from our training for the performing arts and are therefore represented in the stories being told on screen and stage. 

Central is pleased to announce its support of a new pilot scheme which has been launched to provide mentoring support to British East and South East Asian theatremakers.