Honorary Fellows and Honorary PhD

Honorary Fellows

Dame Jennifer Abramsky DBE

Chair of the UK's National Heritage Fund and Chair of the Trustees of the University of London

Joss Ackland CBE

Actor and Alumnus of Central School of Speech & Drama

Yvonne Brewster OBE

Funder of Talawa Theatre company

Jo Brand

Stand-up comedian

Diana Cooper

Former Drama and Movement Therapy (Sesame), Central School of Speech & Drama

Declan Donnellan

Artistic Director, Cheek by Jowl

Penny Francis, MBE

World-leading puppetry practioner

Heiner Goebbels

Composer and director, President of the Theatre Academic Hessen.

Nickolas Grace

Actor and Alumnus of Central School of Speech & Drama

Michael Grandage

Artistic Director, Donmar Warehouse

George Hall

Former Head of Stage, Central School of Speech & Drama

Ronald Harwood CBE

Award-winning Playwright and Novelist

Jocelyn Herbert

Seminal stage designer

Jude Kelly OBE

Award-winning Director and Chair of Culture and Education for the 2012 Olympics

Simon McBurney

Co-founder and Artistic Director of Complicite theatre company

Dame Helen Mirren DBE

Award-winning Actress

Harold Pinter, CH, CBE

Playwright, screenwriter, actor, director, political activist and poet. President of Central, 2008.

Dame Joan Plowright DBE

The Lady Olivier, Award-winning Actress

Professor Sir Ken Robinson

Senior Adviser to the President, The J Paul Getty Trust

Professor Richard Schechner

Professor in Performance Studies at New York University

Catherine Tate

Award-winning Actress and alumna of Central School of Speech & Drama

Richard Wilson OBE

Award-winning Actor

Honorary PhD

Cicely Berry 

Voice Director Royal Shakespeare Company