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Congratulations to Dr Sarah Grochala, Senior Lecturer at Central and Course Leader for MA/MFA Writing for Stage and Broadcast Media, who has been awarded the 2024 Women’s Prize for Playwriting for her play Intelligence. 

Central Vice President Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock has received a Damehood in the 2024 New Year Honours list. 

On 12 January 2024, Central was pleased to welcome graduands from the Mulberry Production Arts Academy for their inaugural graduation, hosted the Embassy theatre. The ceremony marked one year since the programme was established as a partnership initiative between the Mulberry Schools Trust, the National Theatre and 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.