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The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama is pleased to share that two new members of its Academic team will take up their posts in the Summer 2018 term.

On Thursday, 7 June 2018, comedian Jo Brand led festivities at the topping out ceremony for Central’s new North Block Development.  The topping out served as an opportunity to recognise the achievements of the Design Team and the Contractors and provided a moment to celebrate as the building project nears its completion.

The first ever usage of Augmented Reality (AR) software at Central has been presented publicly as a community engagement project on the North Block building development at Central.

Central alumni feature heavily in this year’s winners of the American Theatre Wing’s 72nd Annual Antoinette Perry “Tony” Awards®.

Central's Professor of European Theatre, Professor Peter Boenisch, recently appeared in conversation with former Artistic Director of Berlin Volksbühne theatre, Chris Dercon at international conference Systemic Crisis in European Theatre.

Kate Elswit (PI, University of London, The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama) and Harmony Bench (CI, The Ohio State University) have been awarded over £566,000 by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) for a three-year research project.

Nominations for the American Theatre Wing’s 72nd Annual Antoinette Perry “Tony” Awards® have been announced, and we are delighted to see that a number of Central alumni have been nominated, or have worked on productions that have been nominated.

On Friday 9 March, The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, together with the Central Students’ Union, were delighted to welcome The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, to the Embassy Theatre for the launch of his new strategy to tackle violence against women and girls.

Central is delighted to announce that staff and former students have been named in University of London’s ‘Leading Women’ campaign for 2018.

Professor Sally Mackey and 'Performing Places Bexley' have been awarded nearly £200,000 of a major new grant given to Bexley Council. The project will focus on the town of Bexleyheath, creating an imaginative fiction with and for the townspeople including extensive outreach workshops in schools and community groups. It will take place in the summers of 2018 and 2019.

Congratulations to Honorary Fellows Joseph Seelig and Helen Lannaghan, Festival Directors of the London International Mime Festival (LIMF), on being named recipients of The Peter Brook Special Achievement Award.

From December 2017 to January 2018 London’s arebyte gallery presented fronterlebnis, an exhibition by Central’s Research Fellow Dr Dani Ploeger.