Spring 2018 Productions & Events at Central

PRODUCTIONS, EVENTS & NEWS SPRING 2018

WELCOME...

We hope you will find much to enjoy in this new season of productions and other events at Central. So too there is a wealth of news about alumni achievements and a plethora of awards. It won’t be long before we can welcome you into our new building … due for completion at the end of September. Of the £16.7million cost we have just £300,000 still to find. Many of those who have donated are highlighted in this brochure. We hope others will feel inspired to join in support of this exciting new development!

PROFESSOR GAVIN HENDERSON CBE, PRINCIPAL

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HOW TO FIND US

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BOOKING FOR PUBLIC PRODUCTIONS

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PUBLIC PRODUCTIONS

11 SHOWCASES & SCREENINGS 12 EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS 14 RESEARCH@CENTRAL 17 ONE-DAY WORKSHOPS 18 SHORT COURSES 20 CENTRAL NEWS 28 ALUMNI NEWS 39 SUPPORTING CENTRAL |1

HOW TO FIND US The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama Eton Avenue, Swiss Cottage, London NW3 3HY +44 (0)20 7722 8183 / boxoffice@cssd.ac.uk www.cssd.ac.uk Tube Central is opposite Swiss Cottage station (Jubilee Line, exit 2), or approximately eight minutes walk from Finchley Road station (Metropolitan Line).

Rail Finchley Road & Frognal (Overground) is approximately a ten minute walk.

Bus The following routes stop nearby: C11, 13, 31, 46, 82, 113, 187, 268.

Parking Central is within a Controlled Parking Zone (CPZ) and parking is extremely limited.

There is no parking available at the School.

There are two blue badge disabled parking bays directly outside. For more disabled parking see www.bluebadgelondon.org.uk. Alternatively, visitors with disabilities are welcome to call +44 (0)20 7722 8183 prior to their visit as it may be possible to arrange on-site parking.

BOOKING FOR PUBLIC PRODUCTIONS BOX OFFICE +44 (0)20 7722 8183 boxoffice@cssd.ac.uk www.cssd.ac.uk/events Open on-site: Monday – Friday, 10.00am – 4.30pm Saturday, 12.00pm – 2.30pm Additional opening on performance nights 6.00pm – 7.30pm Tickets: £10/ £5 concessions Complimentary tickets: industry and associated professionals Tickets should be collected 15 minutes prior to the start of the performance. Latecomers may not be admitted until there is a suitable break.

Please note seating is limited in the Webber Douglas Studio.

All public productions listings are correct at the time of going to print. Please refer to Central’s website www.cssd.ac.uk/events for updates.

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PUBLIC PRODUCTIONS

CHARLIE PEACE HIS AMAZING LIFE AND ASTOUNDING LEGEND

BY MICHAEL EATON Director Martin Berry Composer and Musical Director Paul Barker Musical Director David Merriman Choreographer Steve Elias 13 – 15 February, 2.00pm and 7.00pm Webber Douglas Studio Performed by MA Music Theatre Before Jack the Ripper, there was Charlie Peace: the most infamous villain in Victorian England.

Michael Eaton's inventive and colourful play sees Charlie through the eyes of a raucous vaudeville entertainment, including original music by Paul Barker and newly unearthed historical material.

Recounting and re-examining how a philanderer, murderer and master of disguise came to fascinate and enthrall the public before and after death – this is a truly villainous Victorian vaudeville.

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THE SOUND AND THE FURY A DEVISED ADAPTATION FROM THE NOVEL BY WILLIAM FAULKNER Director Sasha Milavic Davies Wednesday 21 – Saturday 24 February Pleasance Theatre, London Devised and performed by BA (Hons) Acting CDT, working alongside students from the BA (Hons) Theatre Practice This classic novel set in Mississippi in the first quarter of the 20th century traces the decline of the once aristocratic Compson family. The tale is narrated by the three Compson brothers: an idiot, an academic and an embezzler and the family servant, Dilsey Gibson. This is a story for our times about frustrated identity and the power struggle between men and women. William Faulkner’s richly textured writing weaves together luscious fragments of imagery and compelling characters, inspiring this subtle and beautiful theatrical portrait of a decaying family.

‘The physicality of the chorus, exquisitely choreographed by Sasha Milavic Davies, is achingly expressive’ – The Telegraph on The Suppliant Women ‘...these young actors are breathtaking...’ – Broadway Baby for Amnesty Award winning SOLD Booking: Pleasance Box Office 020 7609 1800 / info@pleasance.co.uk www.pleasance.co.uk

© Faulkner Literary Rights LLC. All rights reserved. Used with permission, Lee Caplin, Executor. Image © Getty Images.

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Image © Sinéad Rush

NIGHT JUST BEFORE THE FORESTS (LA NUIT JUSTE AVANT LES FORÊTS)

BY BERNARD-MARIE KOLTÈS TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH BY SINÉAD RUSHE Director Sinéad Rushe Sound Designer Niels Lanz Wednesday 28 February – Saturday 3 March, 7.30pm Friday 2 – Saturday 3 March, 2.30pm Webber Douglas Studio Performed by BA (Hons) Acting CDT, working alongside students from the BA (Hons) Theatre Practice Bernard-Marie Koltès (1948-1989) was the greatest French playwright of his generation, and Night is one of his most captivating and unsettling texts. The story of an isolated young

immigrant in a hostile city, Koltès said he wrote it like a musical composition, whose motifs and variations evoke a profound sense of restless yearning and disorientation. This path breaking production in a new translation reimagines the original monologue as a polyphonic work for five performers of different nationalities and genders, a chorus of fragmented parts that resonate with each other in harmony and dissonance.

Please note that this performance will contain some restricted views.

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A CHORUS LINE MUSIC BY MARVIN HAMLISCH | LYRICS BY EDWARD KLEBAN BOOK BY JAMES KIRKWOOD JR. AND NICHOLAS DANTE Director Ed Hughes Musical Director Wendy Gadian Choreographer Lynne Thomas Costume Designer Sarah Mercadé Set Designer Sara Perks Monday 5 – Saturday 10 March, 7.30pm and Friday 9 – Saturday 10 March, 2.30pm Embassy Theatre Performed by BA (Hons) Acting Musical Theatre, working alongside students from the BA (Hons) Theatre Practice A Chorus Line examines one day in the lives of a group of performers, as they audition for a job in the chorus line of a Broadway musical. The musical opened Off Broadway at The Public Theatre in New York, and within the year (1975) it had transferred to the Schubert Theatre where it ran for 6,137 performances, making it the longest-running production in Broadway history, until it was overtaken by Cats in 1997.

The production, directed and choreographed by Michael Bennett, was an unprecedented box office and critical success and won nine Tony Awards, in addition to the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

By arrangement with MusicScope & Stage Musicals Ltd of New York.

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WHEN THE RAIN STOPS FALLING

BY ANDREW BOVELL Director Eric Loren Monday 12 March, 7.30pm Wednesday 14 March, 2.30pm Thursday 15 March, 7.30pm Friday 16 March, 2.30pm Saturday 17 March, 7.30pm Webber Douglas Studio Performed by BA (Hons) Acting, working alongside students from BA (Hons) Theatre Practice Andrew Bovell's multi award-winning play When The Rain Stops Falling is a heartrending drama about family, betrayal and forgiveness, spanning four generations and two hemispheres. Its characters are weighed down by fragments of their past that metastasize across generations to resurface with unsettling inevitability. As intimate as it is apocalyptic. A piece-by-piece puzzle from the claustrophobia of a London flat in 1959 to the windswept coast of southern Australia, and into the heart of the Australian desert in 2039. 'superb... fiendishly ingenious... utterly compelling' Guardian 'a work of gripping mystery and emotional depth... something very special' Daily Telegraph 'extraordinary... grabs you by its imagination, its heartrending originality, its tragic vision' Sunday Telegraph By arrangement with Nick Hern Books.

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REVOLT. SHE SAID. REVOLT AGAIN.

BY ALICE BIRCH Director Hannah Hauer-King Tuesday 13 March, 7.30pm Wednesday 14 March, 7.30pm Thursday 15 March, 2.30pm Friday 16 March, 7.30pm Saturday 17 March, 2.30pm Webber Douglas Studio Performed by BA (Hons) Acting, working alongside students from BA (Hons) Theatre Practice In her opening commentary on Revolt. She Said.

Revolt Again. playwright Alice Birch vigorously asserts that ‘most importantly, this play should not be well behaved’.

It certainly isn’t – Revolt is not a piece that tries to take care of us or provide answers. Over 70 rollercoaster minutes, we are propelled through five acts: the first consists of initially recognisable scenarios - work places, dates, supermarkets – all becoming increasingly surreal or grotesque.

The moment we feel we are beginning to grasp 'the point’, we are catapulted into a new act and world. The fleeting naturalism of Act 2 evolves into a quasi-Shakespearian bloodbath. Act 3 revels in unmitigated chaos, returning to motifs and images explored earlier in the play. In final contrast, Act 4 offers the simplicity of the here and now, interrogating the current state of the world we inhabit as women.

Birch leaves us asking - can we truly dismantle the legacy of patriarchy and re-claim our own idea of femininity - are we truly ‘ready’? © Alice Birch

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THE ROVER

BY APHRA BEHN Directed by Ben Naylor and Anna Healey Tuesday 17 – Friday 20 April, 7.30pm Wednesday 18 and Friday 20 April, 2.30pm Webber Douglas Studio Performed by MA Acting Classical students ‘All women together, ought to let flowers fall upon the grave of Aphra Behn, for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds.’ Virginia Woolf A divided England, casting up its exiles on European shores: four young English lions, Naples, carnival, and the European objects of their affections.

The English language’s first professional female playwright’s masterpiece in a contemporary adaptation by the team behind Central’s productions of The Suicide, Mary Stuart and The Devils.

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THE THREE SISTERS

BY ANTON CHEKHOV TRANSLATED BY MIKE ALFREDS Director Mike Alfreds Set and Costume Designer Max Dorey Wednesday 18 - Saturday 21 April, 7.00pm Thursday 19 and Saturday 21 April, 2.00pm Embassy Theatre Performed by MA Acting Contemporary Chekhov’s tragi-comedy The Three Sisters, is set at the turn of the last century in an unspecified provincial town, possibly Perm in the Urals, some thousand miles east of Moscow. Over a period of about four years the play deals with the complicated relationships between a household and some soldiers from an artillery brigade based in the town. In the characters’ search for a purpose in life and a place to belong, they are constantly buffeted by the changing circumstances of their existence. Chekhov was also a doctor and he applies his blend of sharp-eyed irony and compassion to their delusions and sufferings as they eat and drink, fall in love, quarrel, try to work, get into debt and move from room to room...

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SHOWCASES & SCREENINGS For industry and associated professionals only. Enquiries /booking: industry.liaison@cssd.ac.uk.

ACTING Friday 26 January, 1.00pm and 3.00pm

ACTING CDT Monday 26 March, 1.00pm and 3.00pm

ACTING MUSICAL THEATRE Monday 16 April, 1.00pm and 3.00pm Fortune Theatre Russell Street London WC2B 5HH

MA MUSIC THEATRE Thursday 22 March, 1.00pm and 3.00pm Webber Douglas Studio

MA ACTING CLASSICAL AND CONTEMPORARY Friday 18 May, 1.00pm and 3.00pm, venue tbc

MA ACTING FOR SCREEN Wednesday 23 May, 7.00pm, Central Wednesday 27 June, 6.30pm, venue tbc Thursday 28, Friday 29 June, 7.00pm, Central

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EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS | NEW WRITING NIGHT | Tuesday 13 – Friday 16 February, 7.30pm New Studio, Central This is Central’s annual New Writing Night showcasing work of MA/MFA Writing for Stage and Broadcast Media students. Sit back, relax, and enjoy some never-before-seen theatre and a free glass of wine on entry.

All proceeds collected on the night go towards helping the MA/MFA Writing students produce further shows. Book your seat ahead of time as spaces are limited.

Free event.

Booking: www.cssd.ac.uk/events

| POINTS OF DEPARTURE | Monday 12 – Friday 16 March Central Bankside MA/MFA Advanced Theatre Practice students explore new methods and processes of performance making and production.

They commence with a journey, undertaking a shared pyscho-geographic experience and travel through unknown performance territories, creating work and experimenting with collaborative practice within curated companies.

Information/booking: laura.kennard@cssd.ac.uk

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| INTERNATIONAL | | PUPPETRY DAY | Wednesday 21 March Puppetry Studio, Central Join us for a series of performances and exhibitions to celebrate International Puppetry Day. Free event.

Information: www.cssd.ac.uk/events

| NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE| Friday 23 – Saturday 24 March New Studio, Central A two-day event exploring the power of arts festivals, connecting with local and global audiences and realising our creative potential.

It is hosted by LIFT in partnership with Central’s MA/MFA Creative Producing students with inspiring and practical insights from pioneers of the cultural and media sectors.

Information/booking: www.liftfestival.com/ events/nothing-is-impossible/

| CRUSH | MFA Scenography Showcase

| DESIGN & CRAFTS | | EXHIBITION 2018 |

Wednesday 25 - Saturday 28 April Rose Lipman Building 43 De Beauvoir Rd, London N1 5SQ

Showcase of work by third year BA (Hons) Theatre Practice Students

CRUSH showcases the final projects of MFA Scenography students, Lingge Ma, Talia Sanz Vera, and Francesc Serra Vila. Grounded in the live intersection of body, space, materials and dramaturgy, this four-day event will feature performances and collaborative workshops.

Thursday 4 – Friday 5 May, OPEN TO PUBLIC No booking required

Information: www.CRUSH-showcase. weebly.com

Wednesday 3 May, PRIVATE VIEW By invitation only

Around Central’s Embassy Theatre stage Celebrating the work and accomplishments of the graduating design and crafts students before an audience of industry professionals and close friends.

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RESEARCH@CENTRAL All events take place at Central and are free. Booking: www.cssd.ac.uk/events.

| INTERSECTIONS 2018: | | UNMENTIONABLES – ‘NO- | | GO’ AREAS IN PERFORMANCE | | PRACTICES AND RESEARCH |

| BETWEEN ACTORS AND | | OBJECTS: CONTEMPORARY | | PUPPETRY TRAINING AND | | PERFORMANCE |

Speakers: Dr Anna Birch, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and Dr Nina Power, University of Roehampton

Speakers: Professor Mario Piragibe and DRAK Puppet Theatre

Thursday 18 – Friday 19 January Central’s annual postgraduate research conference peeks at the unmentionables of performance practices and research. Its aim, this year, is to seek out the limitations, the edges and the boundaries of our disciplines, be they self-imposed or externally enforced.

Where do artists and theorists still encounter and create resistance? Where have the lines been drawn in our disciplines and where do we draw the line?

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Tuesday 23 January, 6.00pm Puppetry (as well as material performance), as it has been practiced in recent years, portrays an array of potential modes which demand a new approach towards the functions and meanings for performing artists dedicated to animated theatre. The evening will include two presentations addressing these new understandings of the puppet: firstly, by Professor Mario Piragibe (University of Uberlandia, Brazil) on puppetry training and secondly by the world-famous DRAK Puppet Theatre from Prague on the relationship between the actor and the puppet. These presentations seek to contextualise the role of the performer in relation to central challenges and contradictions, including multidisciplinary training, the roles of tradition and physical skills and the concepts of body and subject for the contemporary arts.

| Q+A WITH NIELS LANZ, | | SOUND DESIGNER, BALLETT | | FRANKFURT AND THE | | FORSYTHE COMPANY |

| STANISLAVSKY AND | | STRASBERG: THE SYSTEM | | AND THE METHOD |

Chaired by Sinéad Rushe

Wednesday 7 February, 6.30pm

Wednesday 31 January, 6.30pm

International Stanislavsky Prize 2017 Laureate, Professor Sergei Tcherkasski speaks about contemporary Russian actor training and the international development of Stanislavsky’s tradition. His methodological analysis is based on a thorough historical overview of the System and the Method, and will be accompanied by a screening of rare archival photos of productions of the Moscow Art Theatre’s First Studio, the American Laboratory Theatre, the Group Theatre and the Actors Studio. This talk is given as part of Professor Tcherkasski's new research project 'Contemporary British Actor Training Through a Russian Theatre Practitioner’s Eyes' (supported by the British Council), and will be followed by a short discussion.

This is an opportunity to discuss the work and process of sound designer, Niels Lanz, who worked as sound and video designer for The Forsythe Company for twenty-five years, winning a New York Bessie Award for his ground-breaking composition on Three Atmospheric Studies. Prior to this, he worked in the sound department of Ballett Frankfurt as a company member, collaborating with William Forsythe on Eidos:Telos, Endless House, Kammer/Kammer and Decreation.

He has also created electronic music for dance and, since 2012, has worked as a freelance sound designer. He is currently collaborating with Sinéad Rushe and undergraduate Acting CDT and Theatre Practice students at Central on a new polyphonic, sound-based production of Night Just Before The Forests by BernardMarie Koltès.

Speaker: Professor Sergei Tcherkaaski

Professor Sergei Tcherkasski PhD, DSc (Theatre Arts) is a theatre director and Head of the Acting Studio at Russian State Institute of Performing Arts (former St Petersburg Theatre Arts Academy, founded in 1779).

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| THE BANDMANNS: | | BIOPOLITICAL AND ACTOR- | | NETWORK PERSPECTIVES ON | | A THEATRE FAMILY | Speaker: Professor Christopher Balme Wednesday 21 February, 6.30pm Between 1900 and 1922 Maurice E Bandmann (1872-1922) established a global theatrical network which extended across most of the British Empire, but also included South America and Japan. This lecture will situate Bandmann’s activities in the context of his family network.

He was the child of two itinerant and prominent actors, Daniel E Bandmann and Millicent Bandmann-Palmer, while his older sister Lily Bandmann also became an actor and spent her professional life touring the British provinces with her husband William Maclaren. All three were prominent examples of the actor-manager model. Theatrical families were often informal unions, peripatetic and sometimes dysfunctional, ending often in separation, divorce and highly publicised litigation. The lecture will explore how Maurice shifted to a new, ‘modern’ managerial model, compared to that practised by his parents, and sister, thereby freeing himself of the limitations of the family network.

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Additional events include an inaugural professorial lecture by Professor David Harradine and a Queer@Central seminar

by Professor David Román.

Please see www.cssd.ac.uk/events for up-to-date information.

ONE-DAY WORKSHOPS Each course has a maximum of 10 participants to ensure individual feedback and are led by a fully qualified trainer. It may not be possible to offer all courses publicised if numbers do not justify them. Please note that places are not confirmed until we are in receipt of an online application and the full fee.

All courses take place at Cervantes Theatre, 229 Union St, London SE1 0LR. Fee: £350 for each course.

THE CREATIVE VOICE Wednesday 31 January, 10.00am – 5.00pm A workshop providing participants with a greater understanding of articulation, clarity, vocal power, pitch, pace and tone.

Explore the fundamentals of voice and vocal technique. Discover how to increase vocal power and projection and build resonance, gravitas and tone into your vocal delivery. Understand how we support the voice through breath support and positive alignment. Increase your understanding of vocal anatomy – how do we form words and sounds, how can we alter our articulators to improve diction and vocal clarity, and employ vocal training techniques to increase vocal strength and health. The workshop culminates in individual workshopping to ensure vocal improvement and sustainable outcomes.

Booking: https://www.cssd.ac.uk/course/ creative-voice

THE CREATIVE PRESENTER Thursday 22 February, 10.00am – 5.00pm Discover how to incorporate voice, performance practice and actor training techniques into pitches and presentations.

Explore theatrical devices and dramatic techniques to increase the impact and resonance of your presentation style. Discover tools to read your audience and flex your approach accordingly. Employ dramatic devices to bring

content to life and build an emotional connection to your audience. Learn how to incorporate storytelling techniques into prepared content and how to frame your message and get it heard. The workshop culminates in individual workshopping to ensure your presentation style is rehearsed and new techniques embedded.

Booking: https://www.cssd.ac.uk/course/ creative-presenter

THE CREATIVE COMMUNICATOR Thursday 22 February, 10.00am – 5.00pm A workshop focusing on discovering the art of building impact, influence and rapport in communication and one-to-one conversations.

How to build rapport with a stakeholder? How to manage status? How to influence up and down? How to initiate and lead the agenda?

Discover how to flex your approach to achieve your desired outcome. Discover voice and performance techniques that increase the impact and gravitas of your communication style. Learn tools to give feedback and deal with communicating in the moment, as well as how to engage and inspire a team, and active listening techniques and creative approaches to ensure you deliver your message with impact and authenticity. The workshop culminates in scenario-based training.

Booking: https://www.cssd.ac.uk/course/ creative-communicator

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SHORT COURSES THE CREATIVE FACILITATOR Tuesday 6 March, 10.00am – 5.00pm Participants will learn innovative, dramatic tools and techniques to lead facilitation and deliver training sessions with creativity and impact.

Drawn from our accredited training in Voice, Actor Training, Applied Theatre and Education, participants will discover creative techniques and innovative approaches to ensemble work, creative teaching and group facilitation. Discover techniques to energise and focus a group, how to use drama to bring difficult content to life, and tools and techniques to unlock creativity, enthuse and engage a group. Explore how to weave dramatic approaches into your own material. Take part in fast-paced, experiential exercises and leave with a toolbox of techniques to lead facilitation and training with confidence and creativity.

Booking: https://www.cssd.ac.uk/course/ creative-facilitator

STEP UP Tuesday 27 March, 10.00am – 5.00pm An experiential learning journey sharing knowledge and best practice in voice, communication, presentation, creativity and leadership.

Step Up is a women-only voice and communication course designed to help participants speak confidently about promotions, pay rises and appraisals. The course is hosted in a safe, creative environment and delivered by a qualified trainer.

Booking: https://www.cssd.ac.uk/course/step

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Focusing on key techniques and skills used by actors, these courses are in small groups so that tutors are able to nurture and develop creativity. Classes are open access and mixed ability and take place at Central Swiss Cottage.

EVENING COURSES Mondays & Wednesdays, 7.00pm – 9.30pm, these courses run on a termly basis Fee: £499 per term Minimum age for entry is 18+ To apply: www.cssd.ac.uk/short-coursesapplications Central offers a variety of evening courses including Acting – An Introduction, Shakespeare, Audition Techniques, Text 1, Text 2, Voice for Performance, and Directing – An Introduction.

SATURDAY YOUTH THEATRE Saturdays 11.00am – 1.00pm Fee: £250 per term Age: 6 - 17 (students are grouped by age) To apply: www.cssd.ac.uk/content/saturdayyouth-theatre-applications Saturday Youth Theatre offers drama classes that are challenging, educational and enjoyable.

You do not need any previous experience to take part, just enthusiasm and commitment.

Classes explore a range of drama and acting techniques and different theatrical forms, including improvisation, voice, movement, devising and working with text, culminating in sharing a themed work to family, friends and carers. Recent themes have included Shakespeare, plays from the Royal Court Theatre and celebrating difference.

DIPLOMAS Central offers part-time, non-accredited, practical diplomas for those wishing to undertake an introduction to acting or performance training. Entry is by audition.

To apply: short.courses@cssd.ac.uk

GAP YEAR September – August on Saturdays, with two x one week intensives Fee: £2,600, bursaries are available The Gap Year Diploma is designed for those taking a year out from formal education who are interested in preparing to apply for an acting course at higher education level. The course develops acting skills, career skills, and audition techniques with the opportunity to perform extracts from plays in a studio-based production.

ACTING January – August Fee: £3,326, bursaries are available The Acting Diploma develops skills as an actor and is designed to be a springboard for those wishing to explore the potential of full-time actor or performance training. There are specific classes in text analysis, voice, movement, devising and character development and the opportunity to perform in one of Central’s fullyequipped theatres.

SUMMER SHORT COURSES Focusing on key techniques and skills used by actors, these courses take place in July and August from 10.00am – 4.30pm and vary from two days to three weeks. All courses, with the exception of Preparing for Higher Education, Actors Audition Pieces and Youth Theatre, are for those aged over 18 years.

To apply: short.courses@cssd.ac.uk Currently courses offered include: > Acting for Beginners > Acting for Camera for Beginners > Acting with Text > Actors’ Audition Pieces (aged 17+) > Directed Scenes > Introduction to Clear Spoken English > Musical Theatre > Preparing for Higher Education: Studying Drama (aged 15+) > Stage Combat > Summer Theatre Company > Summer Shakespeare > Voice Fundamentals > Youth Theatre for Actors aged 11 – 17 > Youth Theatre for Actors aged 6 – 11.

MUSICAL THEATRE January – August Fee: £3,326, bursaries are available The Musical Theatre Diploma develops skills as performers with specific classes in singing, dance, acting fundamentals, voice and movement.

Students have the opportunity to perform in one of Central’s fully-equipped theatres.

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CENTRAL NEWS A selection of highlights from the past few months.

For further news see www.cssd.ac.uk/news-from-central

| GEOFFREY COLMAN IN| | CONVERSATION WITH STEVEN | | BERKOFF AT THE NATIONAL| | THEATRE | In October, Central’s Head of Acting Geoffrey Colman joined Webber Douglas alumnus, playwright, actor and director Steven Berkoff on the Lyttelton Theatre stage of the National Theatre to discuss his career in honour of his 80th birthday.

After studying drama and mime in London and Paris, Steven Berkoff entered a series of repertory companies and in 1968 formed the London Theatre Group. His plays and adaptations have been performed in many countries and in many languages. Among the many adaptations Berkoff has created for the stage, directed and toured, are Kafka's Metamorphosis and The Trial, Agamemnon After Aeschylus, and Poe's The Fall Of The House Of Usher. He has directed and toured productions of Shakespeare's Coriolanus also playing the title role, Richard II, Hamlet and Macbeth, as well as Oscar Wilde's Salome.

Following the event, Steven Berkoff signed copies of his book Greek And Decadence.

| HONORARY FELLOWS RECEIVE | | THE PETER BROOK SPECIAL | | ACHIEVEMENT AWARD | 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. The award recognised LIMF’s extraordinary body of work and its ‘spectacular programme of visual performances over the past 40 years’.

LIMF was founded in 1977 by Joseph Seelig and Nola Rae, at the Cockpit Theatre. Helen Lannaghan joined Joseph as Co-Director in 1986. It is the capital’s longest established international theatre season. Taking place each January, its programme spans the spectrum of contemporary visual performance embracing live art, physical and circus theatre, mask, puppetry, movement and object theatre.

Cutting-edge and essentially wordless, LIMF shows are internationally accessible, celebrating different cultural landscapes. Almost all are UK or London premieres.

LIMF productions have been nominated for three Olivier Awards, and the festival has been honoured by the International Theatre Institute and with a Total Theatre Award. It is a current member of Arts Council England’s National Portfolio.

Of the award, Joseph Seelig and Helen Lannaghan said: ‘We’re thrilled and proud to be honoured with this award, given in the name of such a great man of theatre. It’s wonderful recognition for us personally, but also important recognition of the sometimes marginalised,

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Helen Lannaghan, Peter Brook and Joesph Seelig © Anna Artuhur

contemporary physical and visual theatre performance forms - new circus, puppetry, object theatre, live art - that LIMF has promoted for forty years. We couldn’t be more delighted!’

The Peter Brook Special Achievement Award was presented in a ceremony at the National Theatre Studio on 31 October.

LIMF 2018 runs Wednesday 10 January – Saturday 4 February. For further details, see www.mimelondon.com.

| PROFESSOR MARIA DELGADO | | APPOINTED TO THE RESEARCH| | ENGLAND COUNCIL | Central is pleased to congratulate its Director of Research, Professor Maria Delgado, on her appointment to the Research England Council.

In November, the Board of UK Research and Innovation confirmed the first members of the Research England Council. The 11 members, of whom Professor Delgado is one, will work with Research England Executive Chair David Sweeney to deliver the Council’s aim to create and sustain the conditions for a healthy and dynamic research and knowledge exchange system in English universities.

Of her appointment, Professor Maria Delgado said: ‘I am really delighted to have been appointed to be part of Research England’s Council as the Research and KE functions of HEFCE move to this new body. The opportunity to be part of the wider structures of UKRI and what it represents for the strategic development of research and innovation in the UK is very exciting.’

Research England Executive Chair David Sweeney, said: ‘I am delighted to welcome the members to our first ever Council for Research England.

I look forward to working with each member as we seek to establish and develop our work.

Research England has a unique position within the dual funding system for research, and as the English funder within a UK-wide organisation.

Success will depend on strong partnerships, and the diversity of experience on the Council will support our work with key partners including the devolved funding bodies, and will ensure that Research England plays its role in the success of UK Research and Innovation.’

Professor Sir Mark Walport, UK Research and Innovation Chief Executive Designate, commented: ‘I am delighted to welcome the eleven excellent members appointed by UKRI to the newly formed Research England Council. They bring the diversity of personal backgrounds, experience and expertise that will

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PIPA Campaign

be key to providing the best stimulus, support and challenge to Research England. The nine Councils of UKRI will play a critical role in our strategy development and governance and I am looking forward to working closely with them.’

Research England is being established as a new Council alongside the other existing Councils (the seven Research Councils and Innovate UK).

All members will take up their positions from 1 April 2018. The Council will meet in shadow form prior to April. More information can be found on the Research England website re.ukri.org.

| PARENTS IN PERFORMING ARTS | | CAMPAIGN LAUNCHES BEST | | PRACTICE CHARTER | In November, Parents in Performing Arts (PIPA) announced the launch of the PIPA Best Practice Charter, setting out conditions to help theatre organisations become more carer-friendly for workers after 81% of self-employed people and 57% of employed people reported that they have turned down work as a result of a caring responsibility.

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The Best Practice Charter was the result of a year long research study in collaboration with Central – and with Central’s Lecturer in Theatre and Performance Dr Tom Cornford acting as Lead Researcher – and 15 leading UK theatre organisations. The research revealed that four out of five freelancers had turned down work because of caring responsibilities. 966 theatre sector workers responded to the survey.

As part of the research, theatre organisations trialled a number of ways to improve working practices, including truncated rehearsal schedules, stage management job sharing and crèche provisions for auditions.

Theatre organisations across the UK are being encouraged to sign up to the charter, which will be trialled and tested by 25 theatres for the first year, to help ensure that places of work – and access to work – become as inclusive as possible to carers and parents. The guidelines cover casting, staff recruitment, monitoring and changes to working conditions and practices: organisations who meet Best Practice Charter conditions will be awarded a PIPA kite mark.

PIPA is currently exploring working practices in the music and dance sectors.

Ayse Tashkiran

Of his involvement in the project, Dr Tom Cornford said: ‘This was a fascinating project that depended upon close collaboration between researchers, industry bodies and theatres of all sizes from across the country. It has showed that substantial changes in the working practices of theatre organisations can be achieved, even in the relatively short term, and that the ambition to make careers in theatre more accessible to people with caring responsibilities can generate lasting change in the sector.’

| AYSE TASHKIRAN APPOINTED | | ASSOCIATE ARTIST OF | | THE ROYAL SHAKESPEARE | | COMPANY | Ayse Tashkiran, Senior Lecturer and Co-Course Leader of Central’s MA/MFA Movement: Directing and Teaching, is one of six new Associate Artists to have been announced in November by the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Artistic Director Gregory Doran.

Ayse’s appointment was made in recognition of her movement work with the RSC, having

previously undertaken movement direction on a number of productions for the company. Recent productions include Dido, Queen Of Carthage by Christopher Marlowe and directed by Kimberley Sykes, and Dr Faustus by Christopher Marlowe and directed by Maria Aberg.

Of the announcement, Ayse Tashkiran said: ‘I'm delighted and honoured to become an Associate Artist at the RSC, where I have been privileged to work on movement with inspiring actors, directors and writers amongst many others.

There are fine lineages of movement at the RSC and Central, and I am very proud to play a part in both. Equally, this is an occasion to celebrate the wider field of movement for actors as it continues to grow from strength to strength.’

Associate and Honorary Associate Artists are appointed by the RSC’s Artistic Director in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the life and reputation of the company.

The title is offered as a thank you and an acknowledgement of an artist’s achievements within the company. Ayse has been joined in her appointment to the role of Associate Artist

by Angus Jackson, Maria Aberg, Christopher Luscombe, Polly Findlay, and Mike Poulton, as well as by actor David Troughton who has been made an Honorary Associate Artist. Central joins Ayse in extending its congratulations to all of those whose work has been acknowledged and honoured in this way.

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Graduation Ceremony 2017.

Photo by Ede & Ravenscroft.

| CONGRATULATIONS TO THE | | CENTRAL CLASS OF 2017 | On Monday 11 December, Central hosted its annual Graduation Ceremony at the Royal Festival Hall. Alongside a class of new graduates, the School awarded Honorary Fellowships to Jatinder Verma, Deborah Warner, and the former Chair of its Board of Governors, Paul Taiano. In addition, Professorship Emerita was awarded to Gilli Bush-Bailey.

Of their awards, the Honorands said: ‘I am delighted and humbled in equal measure to be receiving an Honorary Fellowship from The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.

Humbled by the illustrious company I will be keeping and delighted at the recognition of my work with Tara Arts, where connecting worlds is both a statement of fact and a motor for creativity in our diverse world.’ Jatinder Verma ‘I am delighted to have been nominated to receive an Honorary Fellowship of The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. I trained at Central from 1977 – 1979 straight from school, and so it was my doorway to London, the theatre and a world. The health and future of our profession in large part depends on the vitality of institutions such as Central, and I am happy that with this Fellowship my ties to Central are further strengthened.’ Deborah Warner

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‘I am very honoured to have been nominated for Fellowship of The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and proud to have served on the Board of Governors for the past twenty years.

I have particularly enjoyed my twelve years as Chairman of the Board. We have accomplished a great many things during these past two decades, and I look forward to a continued close relationship with Central and to seeing what exciting developments the future holds, both for the School and also for today’s graduands.’

Paul Taiano ‘It is a huge honour to be made Professor Emerita of Women’s Performance Histories at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and to keep my connection with a vibrant community that contributes so much to both the industry and the academy. Research@Central is unique, and I am proud to continue to be part of it.’ Gilli Bush-Bailey The Honorands joined with Central in congratulating the newly graduated Class of 2017 and in wishing them success in their future careers. Wherever their future takes them after graduation, they will always remain an important part of the Central network, and Central is committed to ensuring that their links with the School do not end at graduation, but are carried throughout their lives. For more information on the support and benefits available to Central alumni, please see www.cssd.ac.uk/alumni.

| PROFESSOR SALLY MACKEY | | RECEIVES MAJOR NEW | | GRANT| FOR PERFORMING | | PLACES BEXLEY | Professor Sally Mackey’s successful AHRC grants for her work on Performing Place in several research projects include work in the borough of Oldham (with alumni James Atherton, DE96, and Becky Proudfoot, DE10, among many others) and a project in Camden with adults with mental illness (with alumna Vishni Velada-Bilson, T94, and visiting lecturer Sam Adams). PhD candidate Adelina Ong has been a key part of these projects also.

As winner of the David Bradby Memorial Prize for international research, awarded for her previous Performing Place research projects, Sally gave her keynote speech at the TaPRA conference in Salford University in September 2017 entitled Performing places: anatopia, time and the new global.

Following these earlier research projects, Sally has been awarded nearly £200,000 of a major new grant with Bexley Council for: Performing Places Bexley. 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. Sally and Adelina will be working with alumna Suha Al-Khayyat (DE99) from Little Fish Theatre Company, Ross Bolwell-Williams (DE08) from Emergency Exit Arts and many others.

In their press release announcing the collaboration, The London Borough of Bexley noted that Bexley was set to benefit from a range of community initiatives following the successful funding bid for four projects.

These will help the borough gain more up-todate information on the make-up of the local population and would support community events and initiatives designed to foster good relations between existing and new residents.

Leader of Bexley Council, Cllr Teresa O’Neil OBE, welcomed the success of the bid: ‘This is good news for the borough and shows how seriously we take our responsibility to ensure that Bexley is a place at ease with itself, with an engaged population and integrated communities, where everyone feels they belong and can get on in life. This funding will help us access more up-to-date information to understand how the borough is changing, adapt our services to meet changing demands and fund activities to bring different communities together.’

Professor Sally Mackey is Professor of Applied Theatre and Performance, and Associate Director (Research and Projects) at Central.

Photo © James Atherton.

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| DR KATE ELSWIT AWARDED | | OSCAR G. BROCKETT PRIZE | | FOR DANCE RESEARCH | Congratulations to Dr Kate Elswit, Central’s Reader in Theatre and Performance, who was awarded the Oscar G. Brockett Prize for Dance Research in October for her book Watching Weimar Dance.

The award, given by the Dance Studies Association, recognises the best book in dance published during the previous three calendar years.

The citation from the awards committee noted: ‘Kate Elswit’s Watching Weimar Dance offers a compelling addition to an emergent literature on spectatorship and dance. As part of her original contribution, Elswit develops the notion of 'archives of watching', theorising watching itself as a form of motion, and in her words, 'a peripheral dance between the physical and abstract', to show how historically-situated viewing practices shape dance performances, and how those performances in turn impact upon spectator subjectivities…Watching Weimar Dance demonstrates eloquent and engaging dance research that is thoroughly deserving of the 2017 Oscar G. Brockett Prize for Dance Research.’

Published by Palgrave Higher Education, Watching Weimar Dance will be available for purchase from 5 February 2018.

| DR DANI PLOEGER’S | | FRONTERLEBNIS EXHIBITION | | AT AREBYTE | From December 2017 to January 2018 London’s Arebyte Gallery presented fronterlebnis, an exhibition by Central’s Research Fellow Dr Dani Ploeger.

In 2017, Ploeger made several journeys across Europe to examine the co-existence of conventional weapons and digital culture in

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everyday life. Fronterlebnis – the title refers to Ernst Jünger’s proto-fascist concept of the ‘front experience’ – brings together work in different media that emerged from an encounter with soldiers on the frontline in the Donbass War in Ukraine.

Over the past two years, Dani has engaged with the recent (re-)militarisation of civilian spaces across Europe in the context of omnipresent digital culture. Heavily armed police officers and soldiers are conspicuously deployed on the streets of Western European metropoles, while a growing number of volunteer militias equipped with Soviet-era weapons are training for – and participating in – conventional war scenarios in Central Europe. Meanwhile, experiences of the public spaces in which these developments take place are highly determined by advanced (mobile) consumer technologies. Starting from his own ambiguous relationship to firearms, which is driven by a paradoxical combination of childhood fascinations and critical theory, Ploeger’s solo show frontlerlebnis examines the ways in which mobile phones, action cameras and other gadgets now co-exist with seemingly old-fashioned weapon technologies and their associated symbolic cults of masculinity, strength and heroism.

The four works of fronterlebnis process two journeys through Ukraine, during which Dani was embedded with soldiers on the frontline in the Donbass War, and explored shopping malls, weapon stores, monuments and flea markets.

Arebyte Gallery is a London-based art organisation which supports the development of contemporary artists working across emerging artforms. Through its gallery space and affordable studio complex, Arebyte creates thriving environments for artists to expand on their practices, explore collaborative working and meet new audiences.

Fronterlebnis was supported by Central and Arts Council England.

Concert photo by Peter Hallward.

| SINEAD RUSHE’S CONCERT | | RECEIVES THE GRADAM | | COMHARCHEOIL TG4 | | 2018 AWARD FOR MUSICAL | | COLLABORATION | Concert, a new dance theatre production directed by Central’s Senior Lecturer in Acting and Movement Sinéad Rushe, performed by Colin Dunne and sound designed by Mel Mercier is the recipient of Gradam Comharcheoil TG4 2018 Award for Musical Collaboration. The televised gala concert and award ceremony will take place in The Waterfront, Belfast on Sunday, 4 February 2018.

This is the 21st year of Gradam Ceoil TG4 in Ireland, awards that celebrate and give due recognition to the recordings, broadcasts, live performances of the recipients and all that embellish Irish traditional music and song.

An independent selection committee of seven members nominate awards in six categories: Gradam Ceoil TG4, Ceoltóir Óg TG4, Amhránaí TG4, Comharcheol /Cumadóireacht TG4, Gradam Saoil TG4 and Gradam Comaoine TG4.

Of Concert, Sinéad Rushe said: ‘Concert explores the melancholic, idiosyncratic music of the iconic Dublin fiddler, Tommie Potts, who produced only one album in his lifetime, The Liffey Banks, released by Claddagh Records in 1972. Through the use of mobile, flying and hand-held speakers, a cassette tape player and a record-player, this co-creation and collaboration with Colin Dunne and Mel Mercier continues my ongoing investigation of sound for live performance. We are delighted for this experimental, decidedly untraditional exploration of traditional music to receive recognition.’

Concert premiered at the Centre National de la Danse in Paris and the Dublin Dance Festival in May 2017, produced by Maura O'Keeffe. It will tour internationally in 2018.

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ALUMNI NEWS We would like to extend a huge thank you to the many alumni that keep us up-todate with their career news, highlights of which are included here.

Some news is selected to be promoted inside the School on our plasma screens, to inspire the next generation of Centralites, and some is shared with the alumni community on our alumni social media groups. A comprehensive list of alumni news is also uploaded to our ‘Alumni – Latest News’ listings page www.cssd.ac.uk/content/alumni-latest-news.

If you are a member of Central’s alumni and have provided the Alumni Office with your email address, you will continue to receive regular snapshots of Central’s news by email each term. For those of you who want to share your breaking news with the entire alumni community, please post onto the Alumni Facebook Group or LinkedIn Site, and also email alumni@cssd.ac.uk so that it can be uploaded to the ‘Alumni – Latest News’.

Read more www.cssd.ac.uk/alumni Update us on your career news online www.cssd.ac.uk/update-your-details Join the Alumni Community on Facebook ‘CSSD Alumni News – Official Site’ Join the Alumni Community on LinkedIn ‘Central’s Alumni Office’ Contact the Alumni Office Shaun Northover and Meg Ryan alumni@cssd.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7449 1636 Alumni Office The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama Eton Avenue London NW3 3HY, UK

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| AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS | Congratulations to all alumni who have recently won or been nominated for awards.

The BAFTA Film Award nominations include Kristin Scott Thomas (BEd (Hons) Speech and Drama 1980), who has been nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Darkest Hour, which is also nominated for Best Film and Outstanding British Film. Also nominated for Best Film is Dunkirk, which included performance from Michael Fox (BA (Hons) Acting CDT 2013) and special effects from Simon Paraskevas (BA (Hons) Theatre Practice 2014), and nominated for Outstanding British Film was Lady Macbeth, which starred Naomi Ackie (BA (Hons) Acting CDT 2012), The Death Of Stalin, which starred Jason Isaacs (Stage 1988), and included performance from Emilio Iannucci (BA (Hons) Acting CDT 2015) and Paul Chahidi (Stage 1994), and Paddington 2, which starred Hugh Bonneville (Webber Douglas). In the category of Best Short Film was Wren Boys, co-written by John Fitzpatrick (BA (Hons) Acting 2008), and in the category of Best Animation was Disney Pixar’s Coco, in which Gael García Bernal (Stage 2000) voiced the character Hector.

At the 2017 London Evening Standard Theatre Awards, Andrew Garfield (BA (Hons) Acting 2004) won Best Actor for his performance in Angels In America at the National Theatre. The Oscar-nominated actor returned to the West End in May to play Prior Walter in their major revival of Tony Kushner’s epic, which will transfer to Broadway next year.

Winning Best Play was Jez Butterworth’s The Ferryman produced by Sonia Friedman (Tech 1985) for the Royal Court and the Gielgud Theatres. Also nominated in this category was another of her productions, James Graham’s Ink, and nominated for the Evening Standard Radio 2 Audience Award for Best

Naomi Ackie playing Anna in Lady Macbeth. Image courtesy of Altitude Films.

Musical was her production of Dreamgirls, which was won by Bat Out Of Hell, which included video design from Finn Ross (BA (Hons) Theatre Practice 2003). Also shortlisted this year was The Stage Debut Awardwinner Katherine Soper (MA Writing for Stage and Broadcast Media 2014), nominated for the Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright for her play Wish List at the Royal Exchange Manchester and Royal Court Theatre.

Over 20 Central graduates have been named as nominees for the annual Offies Awards 2018, examples of these include: Sian Thomas (Stage 1974) and Serena Jennings (BA (Hons) Acting 2015), nominated for Best Female in A Play; Dominic Rowan (BA (Hons) Acting 1994), Christopher Tester (BA (Hons) Acting 2008), Andy Secombe (Stage 1974) and Kim Hardy (BA (Hons) Acting 2006), nominated for Best Male in A Play; Kieran Knowles (BA (Hons) Theatre Practice 2016), nominated for Most Promising New Playwright, and David McSeveney (BA (Hons) Theatre Practice 2002) and Joana Dias (BA (Hons) Theatre Practice

2012), nominated for Best Sound Designer and Best Costume Designer respectively. For the full list of nominated alumni see www.cssd.ac.uk/ about-central/news.

Central graduates featured heavily in this year's nominations for the annual What's On Stage Awards, with three being specifically nominated for their performances: Andrew Garfield (BA (Hons) Acting 2004) and Martin Freeman (Stage 1995) were nominated for Best Actor in A Play for their starring roles in Angels In America and Labour Of Love respectively; and Nathan Stewart-Jarrett (BA (Hons) Acting 2006) was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Angels In America. In addition to these, over 25 shows that included Central alumni, either in performance or creative positions, were nominated for awards, and just a few examples of these include: Cilla The Musical, starring Kara Lily Hayworth (BA (Hons) Acting Musical Theatre 2010), nominated for Best New Musical; Hair directed by Jonathan O’Boyle (BA (Hons) Acting 2004), and including performance from Jammy Kasongo (BA (Hons)

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Acting Musical Theatre 2015), nominated for Best Musical Revival, and Hamlet, including performance from Elliot Barnes-Worrell (BA (Hons) Acting 2012), Angus Wright (Stage 1990) and Daniel Rabin (BA (Hons) Acting 1996), and sound design from Tom Gibbons (BA (Hons) Theatre Practice 2008), nominated for Best Play Revival. For the full list of nominated alumni, see www.cssd.ac.uk/about-central/news.

Amongst those listed in The Stage 100, were; (2) Sir Cameron Mackintosh (Tech 1965), (3) Sonia Friedman (Tech 1985), (34) Daniel Bates (Tech 1985), listed with Robert Hastie, (58) Michael Grandage (Stage 1984), (78) David Jubb (MA Advanced Theatre Practice 1998), (88) Anna Ehnold-Danailov (MA Advanced Theatre Practice 2008), listed with Cassie Raine, (89) Paule Constable (Honorary Fellow), and (93) Kully Thiarai (Honorary Fellow).

Naomi Ackie (BA (Hons) Acting CDT 2012) won Most Promising Newcomer at the 2017 British Independent Film Awards for her performance as Anna in Lady Macbeth, for which she was also nominated for Best Supporting Actress. Lady Macbeth was also nominated for Best British Independent Film alongside The Death Of Stalin, which starred Jason Isaacs (Stage 1988), and included performance from Emilio Iannucci (BA (Hons) Acting CDT 2015) and Paul Chahidi (Stage 1994). Also nominated in the category of Best British Short was Wren Boys, co-written by John Fitzpatrick (BA (Hons) Acting 2008).

Dame Judi Dench (Stage 1957) was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Actress, and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role for her portrayal of Queen Victoria in Victoria & Abdul.

She was also the recipient of this year’s Kirk Douglas Award for Excellence in Film presented at the Santa Barbara Film Festival.

Chiara La-Ferlita (MA Scenography 2017) has won a place on the young artist program in one of Italy’s premier opera houses. From January 2018, Chiara will be the set designer for ‘Fabbrica’, the scheme of the prestigious Teatro dell'opera di Roma. The scheme is the first Young Artist Program in Italy to give

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an opportunity to talented new directors, designers and performers from Italy and beyond, who have already completed their training, and are ready to embark on an international career.

Jemma Moore (MA Acting for Screen 2014) is the 2017 winner of the UK’s first ABC Discovers: Digital Talent Competition, which aims to find and champion British actors. She recently appeared in the feature film Wonder Woman.

Abi Morgan (Advanced Diploma Creative Theatre 1993) was named this year’s recipient of the Siân Phillips Award by BAFTA Cymru.

The award recognises Welsh people who have made a significant contribution to international television production and feature filmmaking.

Abi is a leading playwright and screenwriter, and has written for film, television and stage, her credits include the films The Iron Lady and Suffragette, and she has recently written a sixpart drama that will be aired on BBC next year called The Split.

Hector Murray (BA (Hons) Theatre Practice 2017) is the recipient of the ETC Lighting Award, having demonstrated strong, imaginative and creative lighting design.

Khadija Raza (BA (Hons) Theatre Practice 2017) was named as a winner of the 2017 Linbury Prize for Stage Design. Announced at a ceremony at the National Theatre, Khadija picked up her award for Dido, an opera she will design for the Unicorn Theatre in a joint commission between The Unicorn Theatre and English National Opera.

You can read about other alumni awards and nominations at www.cssd.ac.uk/alumnilatest-news.

Nogales International courtesy of Beyond The Wall.

| IN THE COMMUNITY | Central’s alumni produce a high standard of work across a multitude of disciplines in the arts, theatre and education sectors, and beyond. The following provides a snapshot of some of their work-to-date: Shaun Campbell (BA (Hons) Theatre Practice 2017) is a Technician Assistant at Hoxton Theatre.

Hannah Barker (MA Advanced Theatre Practice 2003) is now Creative Producer for Participation and Talent Development at Belgrade Theatre in Coventry, and is CoFounder and Co-Artistic Director of Analogue Theatre.

Ana Diaz Barriga and Jess Kaufman (both MA Advanced Theatre Practice 2015) created and produced Beyond the Wall, a binational festival in Nogales Arizona/Sonora, where the US/Mexico border wall runs through the center of the town. The festival featured 15-foot tall puppets built with community members from both sides playing at the border wall.

The project used large-scale puppetry and community engagement to turn the wall from an object of fear and division into an object of

play and unity. Beyond the Wall is the subject of a forthcoming documentary film from 24 Fotogramas.

Christopher Blois-Brooke (MA Applied Theatre 2016) is Founder and Director of Dialogue – The Community & Performance Network, which is a non-profit knowledge sharing network who run programmes to support organisations and individuals who use Community Performance in their work.

Leah Curtis (BA (Hons) Theatre Practice 2014) was recently appointed as a Dresser for the Royal Court Theatre.

Katy Danbury (MA Theatre Studies 2010) has been appointed Theatre Manager of Old Red Lion Theatre, and is also a Producer and Curator for London Horror Fest.

Kate Elmer (MA Writing for Screen and Broadcast Media 2015) was chosen to take part in BBC Comedy Room, a six-month development scheme for writers identified through their open submission room. She is one of eight writers to take part in this, and was selected based on a script she wrote for her MA. Liam Harris (BA (Hons) Drama, Applied Theatre and Education 2013) has recently been appointed as Head of Drama at Hurstpierpoint College in West Sussex.

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Margaret Shiels and Alena Brown film The Spy Who Knew Me, photo by Catherine Le Pape, courtesy of A.B.L.E. Ensemble.

Amy Keenan (MA Drama and Movement Therapy 2016) is a Dramatherapist, working both freelance and with Noah’s Ark Children’s Hospice.

with The Old Vic on their bicentenary year, and beyond. Sarah was selected as a writer for the scheme, and Hannah was selected as a director.

Natasha Harrison (MA Movement Studies 2016) is joining Joseph Mercier (MA Advanced Theatre Practice 2008, MPhil/PhD 2015) at Leeds Beckett University, where she will be teaching a module on their BA Performing Arts, called Making Dance Work, and a module called Collaboration for their BA Dance course. She will also be joining the Royal College of Music to teach their MA Opera students movement and, in addition, she is completing a project with Red Ladder and West Yorkshire Playhouse called, the Shed Crew, based in a warehouse in Leeds with a community chorus.

Anthony Orme (BA (Hons) Acting Musical Theatre 2015) is now Associate Producer at The Hope Theatre in Islington.

Ruby Hodgson (BA (Hons) Theatre Practice 2013) is now Assistant Curator for the Victoria and Albert Museum. Prior to this she was Collections Management Assistant there, and before that had worked at The English National Opera as Head Dresser.

Sarah Kosar (MA Writing for Stage and Broadcast Media 2011) and Hannah Banister (BA (Hons) Acting 2012) were selected to take part in this year’s Old Vic 12 scheme, which is now in its third year, and involves a company of talented developing writers, directors, producers, composers and designers working

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Sherese Parris (MA Acting 2016) is the Artistic Director of Brooklyn’s The Black Lady Theatre.

Jennifer Scott-Malden (MA Actor Training and Coaching 2016) is a Freelance Actor Trainer with projects currently at Arts Educational, Bird College and Performance Preparation Academy.

Erin Elizabeth Morris (BA (Hons) Drama, Applied Theatre and Education 2017) is currently working in Hong Kong, where she teaches Drama and English.

Heather Simpkin (MA Actor Training and Coaching 2008) founded Bear in the Air Productions Ltd to write and produce new theatre works. They are also now developing a film production team to film comedy sketches.

Scarlett Sterne (BA (Hons) Drama, Applied Theatre and Education 2017) is now a Young Peoples Officer at the Theatre Royal in Plymouth.

Ginny Tam (MA Applied Theatre 2017) was recently appointed as Deputy Manager for the Hong Kong Drama/Theatre and Education Forum, and will be involved in developing strategies that better support the growth of applied theatre in Hong Kong.

Hetal Varia (MA Voice Studies 2016) is currently providing one-to-one voice coaching in India across a number of professions and sectors, whilst also working with international and national theatre and performance practitioners and drama schools there.

Jack Whitewood (BA (Hons) Theatre Practice 2012) is Artistic Director at the Ventnor Exchange and Ventnor Fringe. He is also Trustee/Executive Board member for British Arts Festivals Association (BAFA), and Trustee of New Carnival Company.

Alistair Wilkinson (BA (Hons) Drama, Applied Theatre and Education 2016) is the Artistic Director of WoLab, a working laboratory for artists to create. He is currently seeking submissions from actors, writers and directors for an event, PlayList, which will take place at The King’s Head Theatre in March, and last year he directed Man Cub, a queer adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book.

Kathryn Yohe (MA Applied Theatre 2017) is Co-Founder and Artistic Director of a nonprofit organization, A.B.L.E. (Artists Breaking Limits & Expectations) in Chicago, which provides artistic experiences through which individuals with developmental differences can develop and share their voices through the performing arts. The organisation recently premiered their second feature film starring an ensemble of 20 actors with Downs Syndrome in September, and is currently rehearsing an adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac in partnership with Chicago Shakespeare Theater. Kathryn received the 2017 Central Start Up Award to grow A.B.L.E.'s programming for adults and seniors with disabilities.

Brian Zeilinger (MFA Creative Producing 2017) has been appointed as a Producer for the National Youth Theatre.

| EVENTS | CENTRAL PARTY IN NEW YORK Our annual Central Party in New York will take place on Monday 21 May, from 6.00-8.00pm at The Coffee House Club. We very much look forward to catching up with our alumni there.

All alumni are invited, and if you would like to attend please RSVP by emailing alumni@ cssd.ac.uk.

CELEBRATING 10 YEARS OF COLLABORATIVE and DEVISED THEATRE To celebrate the 10 year anniversary of this course, Course Leader, Catherine Alexander will host a party to celebrate the staff, students and alumni of the course on the afternoon of Monday 2 July at Central. If you studied or taught on this course and would like to attend, RSVP by emailing alumni@cssd.ac.uk.

CENTRAL PARTY IN EDINBURGH We will be returning to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year to host our annual Central Party in Edinburgh on Wednesday 15 August from 5.00 -7.00pm at The Scottish Arts Club, located on Rutland Square. All Central students and alumni are invited, so if you are at the festival, please join us in raising a glass in celebration.

RSVP by emailing alumni@cssd.ac.uk.

We will also be helping to promote student and alumni shows at the Fringe on Central’s social media channels, so if you are taking a show to the Fringe, let us know!

CLASS OF 1992 REUNION We look forward to welcoming the class of 1993 back to Central on Saturday 27 October, 2.00 -5.00pm for a 25 year reunion. If you were in this class or studying at Central in 1993 and would like to attend, RSVP by emailing alumni@ cssd.ac.uk.

AD HOC REUNIONS We are always delighted when alumni contact us about organising a reunion for their class. If you would like our support for your own alumni reunion at Central, please contact the Alumni Office at alumni@cssd.ac.uk.

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Joe Idris-Roberts (Pinocchio), James Charlton (Jiminy Cricket Puppeteer), Audrey Brisson (Jiminy Cricket) in Pinocchio. Image Manuel Harlan, courtesy of the National Theatre.

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Tim in Film Stars Don’t Die In Liverpool, which starred Vanessa Redgrave (Stage 1957).

Central graduates continue to make their mark in theatre, television, radio and film in the UK, and beyond. Below are some recent highlights in addition to those listed in the Awards and Nominations section.

Gina Beck (BA (Hons) Acting 2004) recently joined the cast of Royal Shakespeare Company’s touring production of Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical, in which she plays Miss Honey. In the London cast of this production is Steffan LloydEvans (BA (Hons) Acting Musical Theatre 2011) playing The Escapologist. Choreography for both productions was by Peter Darling (Stage 1988).

David Avery (MA Acting for Screen 2008) will be starring as series regular Xanthius in BBC's/ Netflix epic war drama Troy: Fall of a City, an eight-part miniseries from The Night Manager’s David Farr, which will air on BBC One in 2018.

Jennifer K. Bates (MA Advanced Theatre Practice 2015) is Director and Producer of The Deaf & Hearing Ensemble. Their current production People Of The Eye, which includes technical management from Rachel Sampley and lighting from Oliver Savidge (both MA Advanced Theatre Practice 2015), was recently performed at the Battersea Arts Centre, and is now touring the UK. Tom Brittney (BA (Hons) Acting 2012) played

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Audrey Brisson (BA (Hons) Acting Musical Theatre 2009) stars as Jiminy Cricket in John Tiffany’s Pinocchio which runs at The National Theatre from 11 January to 10 April, and includes puppetry direction and co-design from alumnus Toby Olié (BA (Hons) Theatre Practice 2006), company voice work from Charmain Hoare (1975), and assistant stage management from Louise Quartermain (BA (Hons) Theatre Practice 2013).

Jamie Cameron (MA Acting 2013) played Young Ebenezer/George in The Old Vic’s production of Charles Dicken’s A Christmas Carol, which ran from 20 November to 20 January, and included

Christopher Eccleston (Stage 1986) is to make his debut at the Royal Shakespeare Company playing the title role in Macbeth, running from 20 March to 18 September.

He will also star as Oswald in a modern-day adaptation of King Lear, co-produced by BBC2 and Amazon, and also starring Emma Thompson, Jim Broadbent and Andrew Scott.

David Emmings (BA (Hons) Acting 2009) performed in The Young Vic’s production Wings, which ran from 14 September to 4 November, and included movement from Anna Morrissey (MA Movement Studies 2005), and sound design from Gareth Fry (BA (Hons) Theatre Studies 1996), who also provided sound design for their production Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, which will be broadcast in cinemas nationwide by National Theatre Live on 22 February.

Damola Adelaja (Tommy) and Esther Smith (Kat) in Parliament Square by James Fritz. Image courtesy of the Bush Theatre, © Helen Murray.

performance from Oliver Evans (BA (Hons) Acting Musical Theatre 2010), and voice dialect coaching from Cathleen McCarron (MA Voice Studies 2010).

Georgia Christou (BA (Hons) Acting 2008) wrote Yous Two, which is playing at The Hampstead Theatre from 18 January to 24 February, and is directed by Chelsea Walker (MA Advanced Theatre Practice 2011).

Matthew Churcher (BA (Hons) Acting CDT 2014) performed in Jane Eyre, a co-production between Bristol Old Vic and The National Theatre, in both the critically acclaimed UK Tour from April 2017, and at The National from 26 September to 21 October.

Lucy Cullingford (MA Movement Studies 2005) provided movement direction for Chichester Theatre’s production of King Lear, which starred Ian McKellan and ran from 22 September to 28 October. She also provided movement direction for One Hundred And One Dalmatians by Dodie Smith at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, which included sound design from Emma Laxton (BA (Hons) Theatre Studies 1998).

Carrie Fisher (Stage 1977) reprised her role as Leia Organa in the latest installment of Star Wars: The Last Jedi, which was released in December, and also included performance from Danny Sapani (Stage 1992). The film was dedicated in her memory following her passing last year.

Daniel Fraser (BA (Hons) Acting Musical Theatre 2010) played Jill, Faith Omole (BA (Hons) Acting Musical Theatre 2013) played Jack, and Cherrelle Skeete (BA (Hons) Acting CDT 2011) played the Fairy Godmother in Lyric Hammersmith’s Jack & The Beanstalk, which ran from 18 November to 8 January. The production included lighting design from Tim Deiling (BA (Hons) Theatre Practice 2009) and sound design from Nick Manning (Tech 1994).

Martin Freeman (Stage 1995) starred in Labour Of Love, which was co-produced by Michael Grandage (Stage 1984) and ran at Noël Coward Theatre from 27 September to 2 December. He also stars in the upcoming Marvel Blockbuster, Black Panther, which will be in cinemas from February.

James Fritz’s (MA Writing for Stage and Broadcast Media 2011) Bruntwood Awardwinning play Parliament Square, about a young mother in despair, was performed at The Bush Theatre from 30 November to 6 January, and included lighting design from Jack Knowles (BA (Hons) Theatre Practice 2008).

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Clement Garritty (MA Scenography 2011) is Artistic Director of horror-literate theatre company Kill the Beast, creator of The Boy Who Kicked Pigs and He Had Hairy Hands.

He presented a new version of HG Wells’ The Invisible Man at The Queen’s Theatre in Hornchurch, which ran from 28 October to 18 November.

Paul Groothuis (Tech 1981) provides sound design, and Lucy Carter (Tech 1993) provides lighting design, for Sheffield Theatre’s production Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, which opened in the West End’s Apollo Theatre to rave reviews on 22 November, and runs until 21 April.

Luisa Guerreiro (MA Music Theatre 2005) was Executive Producer for The Crystal Egg Live, a new immersive, multi-sensory experience inspired by H.G Well’s The Crystal Egg, which ran from 6 to 13 January at The Vaults.

Alex Hassell (BA (Hons) Acting 2002) starred as Johannes Brandt in BBC’s The Miniaturist, based on the bestselling novel written by Jessie Burton (MA Acting 2005).

Jacob Phillips Head (MA Acting 2017) and Ivy Corbin (MA Acting 2011) both performed in Southwark Playhouse’s production of Brecht’s Mother Courage And Her Children, which ran from 2 November to 9 December.

Ash Hunter (BA (Hons) Acting 2011) is playing Alternate Alexander Hamilton in the West End’s production of the award-winning sensation, Hamilton, which is produced by Sir Cameron Mackintosh (Tech 1965), and opened at Victoria Palace Theatre on 6 December and runs until 30 June.

Hamza Jeetooa (MA Acting for Screen 2010) directed short film, National Anthem, which was selected for the BAFTA recognised, Underwire Festival. The film was written and performed

by Natalie Perera (MA Acting 2011), and was produced by Isabel Steuble-Johnson (MA Acting Screen 2010). It also included performances from Tom Colley, Frankie Haynes, Jennie Gruner (all MA Acting for Screen 2010), and Cael King (MA Acting 2011).

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Cast of The Miniaturist including Alex Hassell. Image courtesy of The Forge, BBC and Laurence Cendrowicz.

Keziah Joseph (BA (Hons) Acting CDT 2016) plays Mowgli, and TJ Homes (MA Advanced Theatre Practice 2001) plays Hiran, in Jessica Swale’s (MA Advanced Theatre Practice 2006) adaptation of The Jungle Book, which is touring the UK until 12 May. Cora Kirk (BA (Hons) Acting 2017) played Lucy in The Yorkshire Playhouse’s production of C.S Lewis’ The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe, which ran from 9 to 24 January.

Emma Laxton (BA (Hons) Theatre Studies 1998) provides sound design for Donmar Warehouse’s production of The York Realist, running from 8 February to 24 March.

Tim Lee (MA Advanced Theatre Practice 2008) was Associate Director and Dramaturg on There But For The Grace of God (Go I). The project was developed with Camden People's Theatre and ARC Stockton, and ran from 5 to 9 December at Camden People’s Theatre.

Molly Lynch (MA Music Theatre 2014) is currently playing Betty Schaefer in the UK tour of Sunset Boulevard. Also, part of the lighting

Cora Kirk as Lucy, Michael Jean-Marain as Peter, Alan Francis, Patricia Allison as Susan. Photography by Brinkhoff Mögenburg, courtesy of West Yorkshire Playhouse.

team on the production is Roisin Dullard (BA (Hons) Theatre Practice 2016), and the Chief Electrician is Phil Brejza (BA (Hons) Theatre Practice 2015).

Taylor Rettke (MA Music Theatre 2017) played Max Kellerman in the UK Tour of A Night Of Dirty Dancing, a spectacular featuring all the hits from Dirty Dancing.

Georgie Oulton (BA (Hons) Acting 2017) cofounded Handmaid Theatre, a theatre company which aims to tell stories with women at the forefront. Their debut production, a revival of Amelia Bullmore’s critically acclaimed play, Di And Viv And Rose, will premiere at The Tea House Theatre in Vauxhall on 28 January.

Pia Rickman (MA Actor Training and Coaching 2015) was an Acting Coach for feature film, The Unknown Soldier, which was released in Finland in October, and will shortly be released worldwide.

Siobhan McSweeney (BA (Hons) Acting 2004) plays Sister Michael, the Headmistress of Our Lady Immaculate College, in Channel 4’s Derry Girls, a new six-part comedy.

Karl Queensborough (BA (Hons) Acting CDT 2015) performed in the ensemble of The Old Vic’s Girl From The North Country. He now stars in The Little Match Girl, directed by Emma Rice, which opened at Bristol Old Vic from 30 November, running until 14 January, before embarking on a national tour which will conclude at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, where it will run from 27 March to 21 April.

Alfrun Rose (BA (Hons) Acting 2016) will appear in two feature films being released this year; Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald and The Favorite, which stars Joe Alwyn (BA (Hons) Acting 2015). Last year she played Liv Nygaard in an episode of Amazon’s The Fortitude.

Carol Royle (Stage 1976) plays Genie Klein in the UK and Ireland touring production of Beautiful – The Carole King Musical, which opened in September and includes Jessica Joslin (BA (Hons) Acting Musical Theatre 2016) in the ensemble, and David O’Mahony (MA Musical Theatre 2006) in swing.

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Jennifer Saunders as Duchess of Berwick in Lady Windermere’s Fan. Image © Marc Brenner.

Jay Sajjid (MA Acting for Screen 2016) performs in the role of Wali/Doctor in the West End’s The Kite Runner, based on Khaled Hosseini's bestselling novel, which will embark on a UK tour from February to June this year, and includes movement direction from Kitty Winter (MA Movement Studies 2005).

Jennifer Saunders and Dawn French (Teaching 1980) returned to screens this Christmas in a one-off special, 300 Years Of French And Saunders, in celebration of their award-winning sketch show and over three decades working together.

Jennifer also stars in the role of Duchess of Berwick in Kathy Burke’s Lady Windermere’s Fan, which opened at the Vaudeville Theatre on 12 January and runs until 7 April, and also includes performance from Matthew Darcy (MA Acting 2012).

Bijan Sheibani (MA Advanced Theatre Practice 2001) directs the Young Vic’s upcoming production, The Brothers Size, which will run from 19 January to 14 February.

Gareth Snook (Teaching 1980) played Mercier in Emma Rice’s debut musical, Romantics Anonymous, running at Shakespeare’s Globe’s Sam Wanamaker Playhouse from 27 October to 6 January.

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Zoë Wanamaker in Girlfriends by Rollem Productions for ITV. Photo by Ben Blackall.

Zoë Wanamaker (Stage 1970) stars in ITV’s new six-part drama Girlfriends, which premiered on 3 January. She is also playing Meg in a 60th anniversary production of Central alumnus Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party, which opened at the Harold Pinter Theatre on 9 January running until 14 April, and is produced

by Sonia Friedman (Tech 1985).

There are many more examples of alumni achievements that we have been informed of which you can read about on the ‘Alumni – Latest News’ listings page at www.cssd. ac.uk /alumni-latest-news.

To tell us about alumni work that you are involved in, please email the Alumni Office at alumni@cssd.ac.uk or see www.cssd. ac.uk/update-your-details to complete the online form.

Please also remember to share your news with the rest of the Central Alumni Community on the Facebook Group ‘CSSD Alumni News – Official Site’, or the alumni LinkedIn Group ‘Central’s Alumni Office’.

SUPPORTING CENTRAL INTRODUCTION Central is a charitable institution. We receive funding from the Higher Education Funding Council for England, as well as private donations from individuals, corporations, and trusts and foundations. These different forms of support enable the School to build and grow in line with the needs of our students, the industry, and academic research.

Significantly, Central is open to all potential students regardless of their background and is committed to providing access to over £100,000 of scholarships and bursaries per year. We seek to retain those who struggle financially and to enable all students to reach their full potential, making financial aid a key area of development.

We are grateful to all of our donors and welcome new supporters who help Central achieve its mission to develop practitioners and researchers who shape the future of theatre and performance across the UK and beyond.

BUILDING THE FUTURE: CENTRAL’S NEW NORTH BLOCK DEVELOPMENT Central’s continued success has led to a pressing need for the creation of additional space for teaching on its existing campus at Swiss Cottage. The North Block will be a new building on campus that will provide a major increase in rehearsal and performance space for students, as well as creating a new asset for the local community. The new building is scheduled to open in Autumn 2018, and we are currently in the process of raising the final £2m of this £16.7m project, with several opportunities available for potential supporters.

To find out more about the new building and about how you can help build Central’s future, please contact Jo Cottrell on +44 (0)20 7559 3975 / email jo.cottrell@cssd.ac.uk

BECOME A CORPORATE SUPPORTER As a community of innovative individuals with a passion for theatre and performing arts, Central has the creativity to bring tangible benefits to corporate partners. By supporting Central your organisation can make a direct and major impact on the lives of our students and the quality of their specialist training.

You will be partnering with a world-renowned brand with a 100+ year legacy of excellence in the performing arts, and at the same time investing in the training and learning opportunities for many of our students.

If you want to join our community and become involved as a corporate supporter, please contact Meg Ryan on +44 (0)20 7449 1636 / email meg.ryan@cssd.ac.uk

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PIVOT CLUB ‘If you are passionate about theatre, be passionate about its future.’ Michael Grandage CBE, President, The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama Central is indebted to the increasing number of individuals who have chosen to support the talent of the future by joining the Pivot Club, our membership scheme whose original membership included Sir Laurence Olivier and Dame Peggy Ashcroft. There are three levels of membership, with all gifts making a direct impact on Central’s ability to support students, professional practitioners and researchers alike, through the funding of scholarships, investment in teaching, and research. All funds raised help to shape the future of theatre and performance in the UK and abroad.

Pivot Club membership levels are: > Pivot Friend £75 per annum (£6 per month on Direct Debit) > Pivot Circle £300 per annum (£24 per month on Direct Debit) > Pivot Stalls £1200 per annum (£95 per month on Direct Debit).

To find out more please contact Meg Ryan on +44 (0)20 7449 1636 / meg.ryan@cssd.ac.uk, or see www.cssd.ac.uk/ support-us

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LEGACY AND IN MEMORY GIVING Central is overwhelmed by the number of individuals who have either chosen to leave a gift in their Will, or who have made a gift in memory of a loved one.

Leaving a gift in your Will may help fund scholarships, act as investment in long-term capital projects, or simply provide much-needed funds to enhance the School’s charitable objectives. (Legacies and bequests are exempt from inheritance tax, meaning that as a registered charity any gift bequeathed to Central will be tax deductible.) In Memory gifts can be used to support Central more generally, or can be specifically directed towards a cause in tribute to the particular interests of the deceased.

For further information about Legacy and In Memory Giving, please contact Meg Ryan on +44 (0)20 7449 1636 / meg.ryan@cssd.ac.uk.

SUPPORTER EVENING EVENTS Central’s current supporters, and those interested in finding out about its fundraising activities, are invited to join us for the Principal’s Spring Receptions to see A Chorus Line on Tuesday 6 and Thursday 8 March at 6.15pm.

If you would like to attend or find out more information, please contact Meg Ryan on +44 (0)20 7449 1636 / meg. ryan@cssd.ac.uk.

OUR SUPPORTERS Central is grateful to all its supporters. We would particularly like to thank the following individuals, foundations and companies who have recently made donations of £1000 or more to support our work: > The Estate of Margaretta Bundy

> Mrs Milner

> Gareth Neame Foundation

> The Estate of Dulcie Denison

> Nicholas Murphy

> Garfield Weston Foundation

> The Estate of Dr Walter Ross

> John Peach

> Guildford Academic Associates

> The Estate of Nellie Watson

> Charles Perrin CBE

> Hays Travel Foundation

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> Christian Poltera

> HSM Charitable Trust

> Gary Bond Memorial Award

> Roger Reed

> The John Thaw Foundation

> The Clive Brook Prize

> Clare Rich

> The Leverhulme Trust

> The Jane Cowell Memorial Fund

> Alex Shinder

> The Mackintosh Foundation

> The Walter Douglas Johnstone Memorial Fund

> Claudia Spies

> The Neaveth Fund (University of London)

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> Paul Taiano OBE

> ETC

> John Willis

> The Hall School

> The late Julia Wilson-Dickson

> Sky

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> The Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation

> Stewart Annand > Kitty Corrigan

> Patricia Storace

> The Roger and Ingrid Pilkington Charitable Trust > The Savile Club > Shoresh Charitable Trust > Sir Siegmund Warburg’s Voluntary Settlement > Sophie’s Silver Lining Fund

> Wendy Craig

> The Andy Stewart Charitable Trust

> Pippa Dale

> The Ashley Family Foundation

> The William Walton Trust

> Victoria Dickie

> The Atkin Charitable Foundation

> Winship Foundation

> The Beatrice Lillie International College of Comedy and Musical Theatre

> University of London Trusts

> John Drummond > Michael Estorick > Clare Fox > Andrew Galloway > Brian Goodban

> The Behrens Foundation

> Ros and Alan Haigh

> The British Schools and Universities Foundation

> Dame Pippa Harris DBE

> The Coln Trust

> Gavin Henderson CBE

> Commercial Education Trust

> John Kinder

> The Ernest Cook Trust

> Chris and Birthe King > Julian Markson

> The Fergal O'Mahony Memorial Fund

> Anne Mensah

> The Foyle Foundation

> The Stanley Picker Trust

> The Wolfson Foundation

A complete list of our supporters can be found on Central’s website www.cssd.ac.uk. We also thank all those supporters who choose to remain anonymous, and those individuals who generously give their time and expertise to support our students throughout their training and beyond.

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