The National Student Drama Festival (or NSDF) was founded in 1956 by the Sunday Times arts columnist - the festival's first artistic director - Kenneth Pearson, the Sunday Times theatre critic Harold Hobson, and NUS president Frank Copplestone. The Sunday Times Editor, H.V. Hodgson and Dr Glynne Wickham, the Winchester- and Oxford-educated great-grandson of Gladstone and head of the only Drama department in the United Kingdom in 1956 at the University of Bristol, were also early supporters.
The festival currently takes place on a yearly basis in Scarborough, Yorkshire, England near the end of March. Among the theatres used to showcase the productions is the Stephen Joseph Theatre, along with a number of other venues at the Spa Complex, Scarborough College, Scarborough Sports and Tennis Centre and the University of Hull Scarborough Campus.
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