News, Updates and Announcements from Central
News, updates and announcements from Central
Central's Dr Nicola Abraham receives 2023-24 Employer Appreciation Award from Leicester College for their Applied Theatre project. This project has transformed a performing arts module at the College to focus on arts and health and is in addition to our ongoing partnership through Central’s Outreach Programme.
The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama is pleased to announce that it has received £5.6 million in investment from Research England’s Expanding Excellence in England Fund (E3) to establish a Centre for Performance, Technology, and Equity.
Central is pleased to announce its season of public productions and events for the Spring 2024 term.
On Thursday 4 January, The Stage published this year’s edition of ‘The Stage 100’. We are delighted to see that a number of our alumni and Honorary Fellows have been recognised and celebrated in this list for their remarkable efforts and achievements.
The Central community is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of our graduate, Honorary Fellow and friend Richard Pilbrow.
Congratulations to Central’s Class of 2023, who graduated on Friday 1 December in a ceremony held at London’s Royal Festival Hall.
On 15 November, Central’s Dr Naomi Paxton (Knowledge Exchange Associate Fellow) will take part in a collaborative performance event – Pockets of Power! - as a part of the 2023 Being Human Festival. The Being Human Festival is the UK’s national festival of the humanities led by the School of Advanced Study, University of London, in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the British Academy.
Congratulations to Central BA Design for Performance students Peiyao Wang (Class of 2023) and Yimei Zhao (Class of 2023), and graduate Yijing Chen (Class of 2022), who have all been named recipients of the prestigious Linbury Prize for Stage Design.
Central's Professor Kate Elswit (Professor of Performance and Technology) and collaborator Harmony Bench (The Ohio State University) are leading a dance data project on choreographer Alvin Ailey, commissioned by the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Central is pleased to announce that award-winning playwright Mark Ravenhill will join Central as a part time member of staff for the autumn 2023, teaching on its BA (Hons) Writing for Performance course.
Central is pleased to announce a full programme of public productions across the Autumn Season 2023.
On 31 July 2023, Professor Kate Elswit (Professor of Performance and Technology) was presented with the Gertrude Lippincott Award for best English-language article in dance in 2022.