Central School Of Speech And Drama
The Royal Central School of Speech & Drama is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom specialised in speech and drama, and a constituent college of the University of London. It was founded by Elsie Fogerty in 1906 to offer a new form of training in speech and drama for young actors and other students. The school offers 100 undergraduate, postgraduate, research degrees, and short courses in acting, actor training, applied theatre, theatre crafts & making, design, drama therapy, movement, musical theatre, performance, producing, puppetry, research, scenography, stage management, teacher training, technical arts, voice, and writing. With over 55 academic staff, together with visiting artists and lecturers, Central contains the largest grouping of drama/theatre/performance specialists in the UK. The school has been a constituent college of the University of London since 2005.
On 9 October 2008 the school announced that 2005 Nobel Laureate in Literature and Central alumnus, Harold Pinter (1930–2008), had agreed to become its president and to receive an honorary fellowship in the school's graduation ceremony on 10 December 2008, but Pinter had to receive it in absentia, because of ill health, and he died two weeks later. Michael Grandage, a Central graduate and artistic director of the Donmar Warehouse, has now been appointed President.
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