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PRODUCTIONS, EVENTS & NEWS SUMMER 2019 WELCOME...

Welcome to the summer season and end of year productions at Central – including a newly commissioned work from our Honorary Fellow Tanika Gupta, to be presented in the new Courtyard Theatre – part of our recently completed North Block development.

This is always a period of mixed emotions; we celebrate the work of students completing their studies at Central, on the threshold of their professional careers, but sad it is to say farewell. We hope you will join us in wishing them well, and indeed follow their progress henceforth.

PROFESSOR GAVIN HENDERSON CBE, PRINCIPAL

CONTENTS

2 HOW TO FIND US 2 BOOKING FOR PUBLIC PRODUCTIONS 3 PUBLIC PRODUCTIONS 9 SCREENINGS 11 EVENTS & EXHIBITIONS 14 RESEARCH@CENTRAL 18 CENTRAL FOR BUSINESS 20 SHORT COURSES 22 CENTRAL NEWS 28 ALUMNI NEWS 39 SUPPORTING CENTRAL

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HOW TO FIND US BOOKING FOR PUBLIC PRODUCTIONS The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama Eton Avenue BOX OFFICE INTO THE WOODS NW3 3HY T: +44 (0)20 7722 8183 T: +44 (0)20 7722 8183 MUSIC & LYRICS BY STEPHEN SONDHEIM E: [email protected] E: [email protected] BOOK BY JAMES LAPINE www.cssd.ac.uk www.cssd.ac.uk/events Director Adam Lenson | Musical Director Nick Barstow Tube Central is opposite Swiss Cottage station Open on-site: Movement Director Christina Fulcher | Set & Costume Designer Libby Todd (Jubilee Line, exit 2), or approximately eight Monday – Friday, 10.00am – 4.30pm Lighting Designer Sam Waddington | Sound Designer Gareth Tucker Saturday, 12.00pm – 2.30pm minutes walk from Finchley Road station Singing Coach Maria Huesca Additional opening on performance nights (Metropolitan Line). Wednesday 29, Thursday 30, Friday 31 May, 2.00pm & 7.00pm 6.00pm – 7.30pm Embassy Theatre, Central Rail Finchley Road & Frognal (Overground) is Tickets: £10/ £5 concessions Performed by MA Music Theatre students approximately a ten minute walk. Complimentary tickets: industry and associated professionals ‘Careful the tale you tell Bus The following routes stop nearby: C11, 13, That is the spell 31, 46, 82, 113, 187, 268. Tickets should be collected 15 minutes prior to Children will listen.’ the start of the performance. Latecomers may Parking Central is within a Controlled Parking not be admitted until there is a suitable break. A baker and his wife are desperate for a child. But to get what they want they’re going to need to Zone (CPZ) and parking is extremely limited. Please note seating is limited in the Webber go on a perilous journey. Along the way they’ll meet Jack and his Beanstalk, Cinderella, Rapunzel, There is no parking available at the School. Douglas Studio. Little Red Riding Hood and a host of other characters, all wishing for something in their lives to There are two blue badge disabled parking bays change. But even after their wishes are granted, the consequences of their actions come back to All public productions listings are correct directly outside. For more disabled parking see haunt them and they are forced to ask if life was ever as simple as they once thought. at the time of going to print. Please refer to www.bluebadgelondon.org.uk. Central’s website www.cssd.ac.uk/events Distorting, combining and remixing a series of well-known fairy tales, Into The Woods is a Alternatively, visitors with disabilities are for updates. dazzling, witty and thought-provoking musical from Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine that welcome to call +44 (0)20 7722 8183 prior to reminds us that the stories we tell are fallible and that we have to be careful how we tell them. their visit as it may be possible to arrange MAILING LISTS on-site parking. To be included on Central’s Box Office mailing list, please email boxoffice@ cssd.ac.uk. For industry and associated professionals, please contact industry. [email protected].

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Originally directed on Broadway by James Lapine. Orchestration by Jonathan Tunick. This amateur production is presented by arrangement with Music Theatre International (Europe). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI Europe ww.mtishows.co.uk. Original Broadway production by Heidi Landesman, Rocco Landesman, Rick Steiner, M. Anthony Fisher, 2 | Frederic H. Mayerson, Jujamcyn Theaters. Originally produced by the Old Globe Theater, San Diego, CA. 3 PUBLIC PRODUCTIONS

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Director Eric Loren Wednesday 12 – Saturday 15 June, 7.30pm, Friday 14 – Saturday 15 June, 2.30pm Embassy Theatre, Central Performed by BA (Hons) Acting, working alongside students from the BA (Hons) Theatre Practice

The planets are swinging around at all times, and their movements affect us all in different ways. All planets go retrograde, but Mercury’s journey seems to impact people much more than any other. Romance tends to go haywire. Couples tend to create miscommunications that in turn can cause a domino effect of errors. This means holding off on signing contracts and forming partnerships and alliances, especially getting married! Theseus disgruntledly agrees (mostly due to Hippolyta’s consternation and her astrologer’s A PERMANENT STATE OF panicked foreboding) to wait four days until these planetary effects have resolved, but unbeknownst to them, the spirit world is already going haywire. EMERGENCY First performed in around 1596, Shakespeare’s comic fantasy of four lovers who find themselves bewitched by fairies is a sly reckoning with love, jealousy and marriage. For centuries it has been BY JOSHUA VAL MARTIN | MUSIC BY TOBY INGRAM one of Shakespeare’s most beloved plays. Co-Directors Sue Dunderdale & Joshua Val Martin Movement Director Juri Nael | Musical Director Matthew Spalding Wednesday 19 – Saturday 22 June, 7.30pm, Friday 21 – Saturday 22 June, 2.30pm Webber Douglas Studio, Central Performed by BA (Hons) Acting Musical Theatre, working alongside students from the BA (Hons) Theatre Practice We want to tell you a story A story that isn’t real This is not real life This is how real life Feels for... US People in Our twenties, People on the verge of a future that feels like teetering on a cliff edge. We’d love to take a bold brave leap forward but into what? A PERMANENT STATE OF EMERGENCY is what we’re in A STATE not of our making but one we have to endure or cure. Is running away the solution? We can try. Or, stay and fight, against ourselves? Or YOU the ones that left us in this pile of ……..? A Permanent State Of Emergency is a new musical, specifically written for BA (Hons) Acting Musical Theatre 2019 students.

4 5 PUBLIC PRODUCTIONS BONES BY TANIKA GUPTA Director Martin Wylde | Designer Sammy Dowson Wednesday 24 - Saturday 27 July, 7.00pm Friday 26 & Saturday 27 July, 2.00pm The Courtyard Theatre, Central Commissioned for and performed by MA Acting Contemporary

WELCOME TO THEBES BY MOIRA BUFFINI Directors Ollie Dimsdale & Ferdy Roberts from Filter Theatre Company Wednesday 26 – Saturday 29 June, 7.30pm Friday 28 – Saturday 29 June, 2.30pm The idea behind this play comes from the recent exposure by local historian Catherine Embassy Theatre, Central Cortess of the discovery of babies bones and skeletons found in the grounds of a mother and Performed by BA (Hons) Acting CDT, working alongside students from the baby home in Tuam – County Galway – Ireland. The home was built on the terrain of an old BA (Hons) Theatre Practice workhouse and ran from 1921-1961. Set in the present day, but inspired by ancient myth, Welcome To Thebes is a My play is loosely based on these recent and historical events but is not a docu-drama of passionate exploration of an encounter between the world’s richest and the Tuam’s buried babies, though it draws inspiration from the story. Told through the eyes world’s poorest countries in the aftermath of a brutal war. of Grace and her grandchildren, Bones is a play about loss, the punishment of unmarried mothers and the legacy of demonsiation of women by Church and State, where the human Final year Acting CDT students collaborate with Filter Theatre to imagine a and reproductive rights of women are undermined. high-stakes gladiatorial arena in which competing ideologies do battle with one another. Tanika Gupta, May 2019 By special arrangement with Samuel French Ltd a Concord Theatricals Company. There will be scenes of an upsetting nature. Photo by Ferdy Roberts.

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MA ACTING FOR SCREEN SCREENING OF THREE SHORT FILMS Wednesday 5 June, 7.00pm, Central THE CHERRY ORCHARD Booking: [email protected] BY ANTON CHEKHOV COSPLAY HOMESICK ENGLISH LANGUAGE VERSION BY SIMON STEPHENS Written and directed by Jon Spatz in Written and directed by Justine Priestley Director Janet Suzman association with Signature Pictures In an old family home that is being sold, six Designer Simon Wells A group of Cosplayers are being interviewed childhood friends unite to toast the house Wednesday 24 – Saturday 27 July, 7.30pm ahead of a huge new event billed as the they grew up in. When one friend is struck Thursday 25 & Saturday 27, 2.30pm first Global Cosplay Convention. We journey down with food poisoning and the others slip Embassy Theatre, Central thought the worlds of the characters and into their old patterns, the group is forced to discover why they do Cosplay, their feelings of evaluate their friendships and fond memories. Performed by MA Acting Classical empowerment when in full costume. The key The langorous estancias of the Andes foothills where they grow cherries question which emerges is what is more real – ACTS OF KINDNESS and make Malbec wines. Here too, as in Tsarist Russia and modern South the roles we must fulfil in our everyday lives or Written and directed by Amanda Brennan Africa, the old ways of life are being ousted to make way for the new. the fiction that best represents us? Six strangers find themselves in a bunker Award-winning actor and director Janet Suzman directs Chekhov's last and waiting for an all clear in this apocalyptic world greatest play, in a version proving it to be robustly universal. not too far from now. We witness a clash of morals and values as the characters struggle to accept the reality that life could end at any minute. Is one last act of kindness possible?

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MA ACTING FOR SCREEN SCREENING OF FOUR SHORT FILMS PERFORMANCE ARTS Wednesday 3 July, 6.30pm STUDENTS AT CAMDEN The Court House Hotel PEOPLE’S THEATRE 19 – 21 Great Marlborough Street, London W1F 7HL Mentored & curated by Diana Damian Thursday 4 – Friday 5 July, 7.00pm, Central A MESSAGE FROM THE SEA Martin & Alessandra Cianetti Tuesday 18 & Wednesday 19 June Booking: [email protected] Inspired by the Charles Dickens & Wilkie Collins Story Camden People’s Theatre Director Darren East 58-60 Hampstead Road, London NW1 2PY ALURA YOU’LL NEVER WALK AGAIN Designed by the company under the Join a collective of interdisciplinary artists, direction of Tim Sykes Directed by Simone Bruce Written by John Theobald & Jacquie Pepall curators and producers from the BA (Hons) Produced by Amanda Brennan Directed by Jacquie Pepall Friday 31 May, 3.00pm & 7.30pm Theatre Practice Performance Arts course in Saturday 1 June, 12.00pm & 3.00pm a takeover of Camden People’s Theatre for A daytime entertainer on a TV phone sex channel Produced by Amanda Brennan live performances, conversations and other faces a dilemma that corrupts the fantasy she Disaster strikes when Jessie misguidedly invites Little Angel Studios encounters. There will be additional support advocates. This forces her to confront her moral Ben ‘s old friends to his first drag shows. Sebbon Street, London N1 2EH from visiting artists, collectives and producers. reality. Performed by Chocolate Teapot Theatre – ASYLUM BA (Hons) Theatre Practice Puppetry Further information/booking: www.cssd.ac.uk MAPPED Written by Liam O'Hara Captain Jorgan’s found a message in a bottle – a Written by Rachel Tillotson & Steph Lloyd Jones Directed by Pratyusha Gupta message for Charlie. Join them on a steampunk Directed by Rachel Tillotson Produced by Amanda Brennan & Alexa Waugh voyage to discover the truth. This swashbuckling Produced by Amanda Brennan & Dan Smith A short drama looking at the current UK Asylum journey is unlike any other you will ever take! What would you say to a deceased loved one if System through the eyes of a young asylum Inspired by a story by Charles Dickens, step into you got the chance to see them again? This is the worker, Tasnim. Her nerve is tested when a colourful new world of discovery with some of question that Pontem Technology poses to its exposure to the asylum system forces her to puppetry’s freshest voices. Are you ready for a clients. When a budding mapper recreates dead question her choice of career. puppetry adventure? loved ones for money he discovers that his new role also requires him to give the unforseeable. Tickets: £5 Should he? Booking: littleangeltheatre.com School Bookings: +44 (0)20 7226 1787

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UNDER 5S TOUR BRINK FESTIVAL Director Jade Lewis Wednesday 26 June – Thursday 4 July Monday 24 – Friday 28 June Webber Douglas Studio and around Central On tour in Cornwall Presented by MA/MFA Performance Practice Devised and performed by BA (Hons) Drama, as Research Applied Theatre and Education BRINK celebrates one year of independent This immersive, accessible, participatory postgraduate research, as part of the MA/MFA storytelling experience for Under 5s and their Performance Practice as Research at Central. families will be created and performed by first BRINK hosts a myriad of works that challenge year students on the Drama, Applied Theatre and provoke current ideas and questions and Education course. around theatre, performance and visual art. The festival promises exciting new work from emerging performance innovators living, exploring and creating at the brink of their BEXLEY PROJECT disciplines. Director Ben Buratta Musical Director Neil Carter Free event / advanced booking necessary. Designer Ruta Irbite Booking / further information: www.brinkfestival.co.uk or Monday 24 – Friday 28 June [email protected] The Old Library Walnut Tree Road, Erith DA8 1RS www.theexchangeerith.com SCENOGRAPHY OPEN Performed by BA (Hons) Drama, Applied Theatre and Education STUDIO EXHIBITION Imagine flying all the way to another planet… Tuesday 2, Wednesday 3 & Thursday 4 July GREAT RECKONINGS PRESTO! only to find out when you arrive that everything 11.00am – 7.00pm is going wrong! Can the young people of Bexley Friday 21 June, 7.00pm (preview) Director Leo Skilbeck Dench Studio, Central Set & Costume Designer Kaajel Patel find the solutions? Saturday 22 June, 3.00pm, 5.00pm, 7.00pm MA/MFA Scenography students present their Camden People’s Theatre Monday 24 – Friday 28 June This is an exciting new collaboration that sees final projects in-progress, culminating with a Drama, Applied Theatre and Education students 58-60 Hampstead Road, London NW1 2PY On tour in Oldham Closing Event on Thursday 4 July at 6.00pm. working in partnership with Professor Sally Performed and produced by Performance Devised and performed by BA (Hons) Drama, Mackey’s Performing Places Bexley and London Free entry / no booking required Arts and Design for the Stage students Applied Theatre and Education Borough of Bexley. Taking over the site of the Join us on a journey into our deepest anxieties. PRESTO! is an ensemble show exploring Old Library in Erith, local primary schools will In this immersive experience we tackle queerness through music for young audiences. take part in this immersive production that will notions of ecology, weather, climate and our Once upon a time there were lots of musical see them visiting a parallel planet, Par Bexia, struggle to address the challenges we face. notes which all sounded different depending that is in big trouble. The young people will In this confrontational design-led event we on who played them and how they were explore this new territory, picking up clues as take a long look at ourselves, our fragility, our played. Then the orchestra came along and they go along, in order to save the planet from vulnerabilities, our bodies and present a space said there had to be just 12 notes and everyone chaos. to reimagine our future. had to play in tune or else! But where did the This devised, site-specific production uses A great reckoning is upon us. other notes go, the ones in between? PRESTO! is audience participation and music to explore the Now is the time to shout or run… show for young audiences who want to dance themes of difference, migration and place. to their own rhythm, play out of tune and make Booking: www.cptheatre.co.uk some noise!

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All events take place at Central. Booking: www.cssd.ac.uk/whats-on-in-research

Audiences: Creative Strategies and Practices in Contemporary European Theatre (Dr Margherita Laera, University of Kent and Professor Peter Boenisch, Central). Anestis Azas is, together with Prodromos Tsinikoris, Artistic Director of the Experimental Stage 1 of the Greek National Theatre in Athens.

CENTRAL RESEARCH@WORK Dr Naomi Paxton and Dr Tom Cornford Wednesday 8 May, 6.30pm In this series, Central researchers will talk about their latest explorations of theatre and ANESTIS AZAS: THEATRE IN performance, sharing their new material and/ GREECE – THE REMAINS OF A or writing, and discussing questions of research methods. These short ‘work in progress’ CRISIS presentations will offer opportunities for THE ROLE OF THERAPEUTIC CENTRAL RESEARCH@WORK Anestis Azas response, discussion and a sharing of ideas THEATRE IN RAISING Wednesday 24 April, 6.30pm about these ongoing research projects. Dr Diana Damian Martin and Dr Gareth White AWARENESS ABOUT OPIOID Wednesday 5 June, 6.30pm 'Working across Europe over the past couple Dr Naomi Paxton: Reaching out in both of years, one of the first questions I am being directions – doing suffrage theatre in the ADDICTION Dr Diana Damian Martin: Balconies: Eastern 21st-century Europe and the poetics of discontinuity asked, no matter where I go, concerns the Dr Nisha Sajnani influence of the financial crisis on Greek This talk will explore the devising and Wednesday 15 May, 6.30pm This presentation revolves around a series of theatre. I will therefore depart in my lecture development process, and how the use of images of balconies by artist Dan Perjovschi The focus of the Theatre & Health Lab at New from this question, and from there depart on contextual frameworks and inter-theatrical exploring how these images present the York University (NYU) is to advance research on an introduction to my own work in the genre research methodologies can inform the re- balcony as collapsing categories of movement the psychological, physical and social benefits of documentary theatre, as well as our work at staging and reimagining of Edwardian suffragist and stillness, East and West, occupation and of theatre-making and performance. In this the Experimental Stage of the Greek National plays for specialist and non-specialist audiences. resistance, and asks: how does the balcony Theatre.' research presentation, Dr Sajnani will present intervene into cultural narratives of Eastern Dr Tom Cornford: Theatre Workshop: The Pre- an example of a recent collaborative study on Europe and its political discontinuities? The talk by Anestis Azas will be followed by a History of Theatre-Making the use of therapeutic theatre, an approach to conversation with Dr Marissia Fragkou, Senior drama therapy with a stated intent to promote Dr Gareth White: In the midst of a re-staged This paper will explore Theatre Workshop as a Lecturer in Performing Arts, Canterbury Christ the wellness of actors and/or audiences, in a revolution: compliance and contradiction in precursor to the emergence, in the 1990s, of the Church University. state-wide effort to reduce opioid addiction. Counting Sheep category of ‘theatre-makers’. On Saturday 27 April, 1.00pm, there will also Dr Nisha Sajnani is the Director of the Program Mark and Marichka Marczycks’ Counting Sheep be a work-in-progress showing of a one-week in Drama Therapy and the Theatre & Health Lab invites us to join the Maidan Square rebellion in student workshop lead by Anestis Azas, on at NYU. She is also a member of the Faculty in Kiev, five years after the event, in a participatory the topic of multilingual theatre-making, as the NYU Educational Theatre and Rehabilitation performance of celebration and lament and a part of the AHRC-funded research project Sciences PhD programmes. cry for recognition of an ongoing conflict. Performing Multilingualism for Monolingual

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DECOLONISING HUMAN EXHIBITS: DANCE, RE- TRAINING FOR THE FUTURE: ENACTMENT AND HISTORICAL NEW DIRECTIONS IN FICTION ACTOR TRAINING AND Dr Prarthana Purkayastha DIRECTOR PEDAGOGY FOR Wednesday 12 June, 6.30pm THE 21ST-CENTURY – AN This performance lecture focuses on INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE decolonising exhibition practices and colonial archives. It offers a brief survey of literature on Professor Anne Bogart 19th-century colonial exhibitions and world’s Thursday 18 – Saturday 20 July fairs as a cultural practice and the complicity Training for the Future concludes Anne Bogart’s of academic disciplines, such as anthropology shared affective spaces that never disavow Leverhulme Visiting Professorship at Central and ethnology, in promoting violent forms of THE EDWARD GORDON CRAIG their theatricality. Having trained under Wilfried and will consider contemporary actor training pedagogy. LECTURE 2019: JOHANNES Minks at Hamburg, Schütz started his career since Stanislavsky, and asks if the notion of a This talk delineates the structural limitations of SCHÜTZ in the 1970s at Schillertheater Berlin and comprehensive methodological system still re-enactments, a current trend in contemporary Kammerspiele Munich. exists. Examining what it means to train or be Johannes Schütz Euro-American dance, and argues that historical trained, the conference will comprise lectures, Tuesday 2 July, 6.30pm He became a regular collaborator of German fiction as a corporeal methodology might be a directors Frank-Patrick Steckel, Jürgen Gosch workshops and discussions that consider the viable decolonising strategy for dance studies. Central and the Society for Theatre Research and Karin Beier, while throughout his career breadth and lineage of contemporary theatre are pleased to announce that the 2019 Edward training methodologies. We are delighted that Dr Prarthana Purkayastha is Senior Lecturer in also regularly venturing into dance and opera. Gordon Craig Lecture will be delivered by Anne Bogart will give both a keynote address Dance at Royal Holloway, University of London. Working far beyond Germany (including German stage and costume designer Johannes and practical training workshops. Her dance research examines the intersections English National Opera, Royal Court, and Schütz (b. 1950, Frankfurt). of race, gender and nationhood. London, Théâtre Royale La Monnaie The initial day of the conference (18 July) Brussels, and the Sydney Theatre Company, The radical clarity of Schütz’s plain, non- will be dedicated to sessions with, and for, Australia), Schütz has designed more than 250 illusionist stage cubes is unique. They engulf postgraduate students, by Anne Bogart productions to date. performers and spectators in situational, together with Central’s Professor David Harradine, Drs Diana Damian-Martin, Duška Radosavljević and Tom Cornford.

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Each course has a maximum of 10 participants to ensure individual feedback and are PRESENTING WITH Each taster session lasts 90 minutes and led by a fully qualified trainer. It may not be possible to offer all courses publicised if CONFIDENCE you can choose to attend all four sessions or numbers do not justify them. Please note that places are not confirmed until we are select the sessions most appropriate to your in receipt of an online application form and the full fee. Wednesday 19 June, 10.00am – 5.00pm organisation. Central There will be the opportunity to see our All courses take place at Central. The fee for each course is £450, except for the Explore how to incorporate voice, facilities and meet the team, as well as Free Taster Day. performance practice and actor training networking opportunities with other learning techniques into presentations. and development professionals. This course can give you the tools to stay calm Booking: www.cssd.ac.uk/event/central- THE CREATIVE FACILITATOR gain a greater understanding of articulation, and engaged when the spotlight is on you, business-taster-day clarity and effective use of pitch, pause and and ensure your message resonates with Wednesday 22 May, 10.00am – 5.00pm pace. All of this is underpinned by techniques your audience. We will use exercises drawn Central to project the voice safely and care for your from actor training focusing on body, breath PRESENTING TO ENGAGE: THE voice to avoid strain and damage. After work and voice to enable you to calm your nerves Develop a toolkit of innovative techniques POWER OF STORYTELLING on using the voice to bring text to life, you will and own your space. We will explore dramatic to lead facilitation and deliver training receive tailored feedback and tips to ensure devices to bring your content to life, and Wednesday 3 July, 10.00am – 5.00pm sessions with creativity and impact. vocal improvement. consider how to frame your message and get Central Participants will learn dramatic approaches to it heard. The day’s work will culminate with Booking: www.cssd.ac.uk/course/creative- ensemble work, creative teaching and group individual workshopping and tailored feedback. Harness the power of storytelling and voice facilitation. These will include exercises on incorporate it into your working life. Booking: www.cssd.ac.uk/course/ how to energise and focus a group, how to presenting-confidence This course will examine the recognisable use drama to bring challenging content to life, patterns in stories and how these can bring and how to encourage and inspire creativity THE CONFIDENT meaning and engagement. Using exercises in others. There will be plenty of hands-on COMMUNICATOR from performance training, we will practice experience as the group participates in and FREE TASTER DAY using the classic story structure to present practises leading exercises for themselves, Wednesday 12 June, 10.00am – 5.00pm Wednesday 26 June, 9.30am – 5.30pm information, as well as exploring other receiving individual attention and feedback on Central Central common narrative structures. Strategies for their work. ‘hooking in’ and persuading your audience will Discover the art of building impact, Who is the Free Taster Day for? Learning and also be explored. The afternoon session will Booking: www.cssd.ac.uk/course/creative- influence and rapport in group development professionals who are interested end with individual work on presenting your facilitator communication and one-to-one in creating bespoke, practical training story with clarity and impact, with personalised conversations programmes for their organisation. feedback for increasing your skills and Using performance techniques to examine confidence. Experience Central’s business training first- BE HEARD: THE CREATIVE status and influence, explore how you can flex hand at our Free Taster Day. your approach to achieve desired outcomes. Booking: www.cssd.ac.uk/course/ VOICE presenting-engage-power-storytelling Active listening, solution-driven negotiation and We are offering learning and development Wednesday 5 June, 10.00am – 5.00pm delivering difficult messages will all be explored professionals the opportunity to sample Central through practical work, as well as using a selection of practical business training creative approaches to ensure you deliver your workshops including: Work alongside our expert Voice and message authentically and effectively. In the Communications Trainer to discover the afternoon, you will have the chance to practice > Confident Communication fundamentals of voice and vocal technique. the skills you have learnt in scenario-based > The Power of Storytelling > Health and Wellbeing in the Workplace You will explore the production of voice, from training and receive individual feedback. > Presenting with Confidence. body language and posture, to breathing Booking: www.cssd.ac.uk/course/confident- techniques, to building resonance and gravitas communicator through tone. Using practical exercises you will

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SHORT COURSES DIPLOMAS PERFORMANCE MAKING January – July Focusing on key techniques and skills used by actors, these courses are in small Central offers part-time, non-accredited, Fee: £400, bursaries available groups so that tutors are able to nurture and develop creativity. Classes are open practical diplomas for those wishing to access and mixed ability and take place at Central. undertake an introduction to acting or Delivered in partnership with Access All Areas, performance training. Entry is by audition. a learning disabled and autistic adults theatre For more information see www.cssd.ac.uk/ company, the Performance Making Diploma diplomas. teaches professional performance skills. Students create their own performances in different styles and explore ways of making a GAP YEAR career as a performer. September – August on Saturdays, with two x one week intensives C.A.S.T. Fee: £2,700, bursaries available January – December The Gap Year Diploma is designed for those Fee: £2,900 taking a year out from formal education who are interested in preparing to apply for an The Creative Arts Supervision Training acting course at higher education level. The Diploma offers experienced Arts therapists, course develops acting skills, career skills and psychotherapists, counsellors, play therapists audition techniques with the opportunity to and dance movement therapists a training in perform extracts from plays in a studio-based creative, clinical supervision. production. SUMMER SHORT ACTING EVENING COURSES SATURDAY YOUTH THEATRE COURSES January – August Mondays & Wednesdays or Tuesdays & Saturdays 11.00am – 1.00pm Fee: £3,500, bursaries available Focusing on key techniques and skills used Thursdays, 7.00pm – 9.30pm, these courses Fee: £275 per term by actors, these courses take place in July and run on a termly basis The Acting Diploma develops skills as an Age: 6-17 (students are grouped by age) August from 10.00am – 4.30pm and vary from Fee: £290 - £575 per term actor and is designed to be a springboard To apply: www.cssd.ac.uk/saturday- for those wishing to explore the potential two days to three weeks. All courses unless Minimum age for entry is 18+ youth-theatre of full-time actor or performance training. stated are for those aged over 18 years. To To apply: www.cssd.ac.uk/evening-courses apply: [email protected]. Saturday Youth Theatre offers drama There are specific classes in text analysis, voice, movement, devising and character Central offers a variety of evening courses for classes that are challenging, educational and Currently courses offered include: actors, non-actors and beginners including: enjoyable. You do not need any previous development and the opportunity to perform n experience to take part, just enthusiasm and in one of Central’s fully-equipped theatres. Acting for Beginners n Acting – An Introduction commitment. n Acting with Text n Acting – Shakespeare n Actors’ Audition Pieces (aged 17+) n Acting – For Camera Classes explore a range of drama and acting MUSICAL THEATRE techniques and different theatrical forms, n Acting for Camera n Audition Techniques January – August including improvisation, voice, movement, n n Acting – Working with Text Fee: £3,500, bursaries available Musical Theatre devising and working with text, culminating n Acting the Play n Preparing for Higher Education: Studying in sharing a themed work to family, friends The Musical Theatre Diploma develops skills n Writing the Play Drama (aged 15+) and carers. Recent themes have included as performers with specific classes in singing, n Voice for Performance n Shakespeare, plays from the Royal Court dance, acting fundamentals, voice and Stage Combat n Directing – An Introduction Theatre and celebrating difference. movement. Students have the opportunity n Summer Theatre Company n Playwriting. to perform in one of Central’s fully-equipped n Voice Fundamentals theatres. n Youth Theatre for Actors (age 6-17 years).

20 21 CENTRAL NEWS CENTRAL NEWS double-height studios including a movement A selection of highlights from the past few months. studio with sprung floors, a sound studio For further news see www.cssd.ac.uk/news-from-central. with facilities to prepare students for work in broadcast, film and digital media, two fully equipped rehearsal studios, a new workshop space, a full range of ancillary spaces including new dressing and teaching rooms, and a new galleried Courtyard Theatre. All production and performances spaces have been equipped with LED lighting systems and digital sound capabilities. These eagerly awaited Professor Carolyn Cooper Nike Jonah new facilities give Central a great opportunity to ensure that students have the very best access to cutting-edge, modern amenities that will throughout this academic year. Bringing further enhance their training. together staff from across all areas of Central's community, the aim for each of Nike’s dinners is to gather together people with a willingness and PROFESSOR CAROLYN COOPER enthusiasm to push diversity conversations into AND NIKE JONAH LEAD AN action. Joining staff at the dinners were other EVENING OF EVENTS like-minded people from across the arts with HRH PRINCESS ALEXANDRA of the design and project teams for the new their own great insights and stories to share. building and friends and supporters of the On the evening of 12 March, Central welcomed Alongside Nike Jonah and Professor Carolyn OPENS THE NEW NORTH School at a private reception held in the new academics, artists, industry friends and partners Cooper, Central was delighted to welcome BLOCK BUILDING Courtyard Theatre. She was presented with and members of its wider staff community for dancer and choreographer Gerrard Martin, and flowers by Student Union President, Holly an evening of events focusing on fellowship and composer and playwright Michael Scott. On 27 February 2019, Central was visited by Barraclough, on behalf of the student body providing a space for a proper conversation and its Royal Patron, HRH Princess Alexandra to For her first dinner in November, Nike before unveiling a brass plaque commemorating the recharging of energies and imaginations. welcomed Dr Funmi Adewole, Vc2020 Lecturer/ mark the official opening of the new North her visit and the building’s official opening. Block building. This provided the Princess with The evening, curated by Decolonising the Associate professor of Dance at DeMontford an opportunity to meet staff and students and Of the event, Central’s Principal, Professor Gavin Archive and Central Research, opened with University and former chair of Association of observe a variety of student work. Henderson, said: Professor Carolyn Cooper, Visiting Fellow and Dance of the African Diaspora, multidisciplinary Professor of Literary & Cultural Studies at the artist Mohammed Ali (aka Aerosol Arabic), “We are delighted that our Patron, HRH Princess Princess Alexandra was greeted by Central’s University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica whose work regularly interrogates arts and Alexandra, was with us to formally open our President and alumnus , with her lecture entitled Erotic Maroonage: Islam within contemporary Muslim society, new North Block development. She engaged together with the Chair of the Governing Body, Embodying Emancipation in Jamaican Dancehall Arts Council England Changemaker, producer with all sorts of student activity in the five new John Willis, and Principal, Professor Gavin Culture. The hyper-sexuality articulated and activist Kayza Rose, and Julie McNamara, major studios and performance spaces. ‘I must Henderson. She was escorted on a tour of the in the lyrics of Jamaican dancehall DJs is a theatre maker and Artistic Director of Vital come back for a show, and soon’ she said… and new facilities where she observed classes from conventionally dismissed as pure vulgarity, or Xposure. so she shall!” the Drama, Applied Theatre and Education and ‘slackness’ in the Jamaican vernacular. In her Movement: Directing and Teaching courses. Nike Jonah said: Princess Alexandra previously visited Central talk, Professor Cooper argued that it ought The Princess and guests were entertained by in 2013 for a ceremony to bestow Honorary to be re-theroised as a decidedly political "The salon facilitated a beautiful exchange performances from the Acting Musical Theatre Fellowships on Julian Rudd and Claire Bloom and discourse, a stage on which women and men and engagement with various departments course’s production of The Life, MA Music to celebrate the School’s receipt of Royal Title. act out rituals of release from historical roles of from across Central. This was inspiring, as Theatre course’s production of The Tunnel and oppression. many times these departments might not The North Block building, designed by an a short, critically-acclaimed film from the MA have cause to interact. I was impressed by the award-winning team at Tim Ronalds Architects, Following this lecture, Central’s Visiting Acting for Stage and Screen course. enthusiasm of the group to share their inputs has provided Central with a major increase Research Fellow Nike Jonah hosted the second and to contribute to the tapestry of what makes Following the tour, Princess Alexandra met with in rehearsal and performance space for its in her series of her salon style ‘family dinners’, Central unique. The salon was a success in staff and student representatives, members students. The new building houses five large, part of three that are to be held at the School cementing the comradery of the staff and,

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despite a few challenges, I feel that the winning in interviews, focus groups and responded to sentiment of solidarity and progress was surveys. The Board of Governors and Central’s achieved." senior management team are grateful to all those who contributed to this important review. Jessica Bowles, Principal Lecturer and Central’s Course Leader for the MA/MFA Creative Central has set a clear ambition for to obtain a Producing course, worked together with Nike to gold standard for race equality in performance organise and promote the salon, and said: arts training. The implementation of the recommendations of the report will give an "Academia is more than the cerebral, it is about opportunity to achieve transformational, lasting creating beautiful moments in history." change to develop the School into a beacon of Connie Bell, from Decolonising The Archive, excellence in race equality. Curator, Heritage Arts Practitioner and A series of initiatives has been announced, Playwright said: including an additional investment of £100,000 "The entire fellowship/event was a complete to drive progress, further embedding race success. The after party (Nike's salon) gave equality into all of Central’s activities. This testimony to how important it is to be a new investment programme includes funding visionary, to act on interdependence via for a new full-time Equality and Diversity collaboration and to keep a unifying bond even Advisor position. The funding will also support in the midst of challenges. And The Rest Of Me Floats additional diversity training across the School, projects to support a more inclusive curriculum, This formulae can be noted as one for success, the implementation of agreed actions and influence and true power, as it sends a message with Gendered Intelligence (UK’s largest arts further diversity recruitment plans. within and outside of the familiar circles OUTBOX THEATRE’S AND THE organisation working with trans youth) to that groups can work together and create deliver nine workshops for trans and non- Central’s Board of Governors has established a bridges for exchange of culture, ideas and REST OF ME FLOATS binary actors aged 16 - 25. These workshops new sub-committee, including staff and student opportunities. This bridge is what eventually were based around the themes of the show governors, which reports to the full Board And The Rest Of Me Floats is a performance all creates a passage for peace, promotes and were delivered in conjunction with leading on matters of diversity and inclusion. This is about the messy business of gender, made by wellbeing in communities and saves our world theatres The Royal Court, Birmingham Rep, chaired by an Independent Governor, Anne Outbox Theatre and conceived and directed from destruction." Leeds Playhouse, and Bristol Old Mensah, and is monitoring the implementation by Central’s Ben Burratta, a Lecturer in Applied Vic in order to introduce more trans people into of the Halpin Partnership recommendations An audio recording of Professor Cooper’s Theatre Practices. actor training and the theatre industry. and institutional diversity and inclusion goals lecture was captured by Decolonising the with the aim of achieving cultural change. Devised by performers from across the trans, Archive, who assisted in organising the And The Rest Of Me Floats was supported Ideas, suggestions and feedback from staff non-binary, and queer communities, the show fellowship and will be adding the event to their through funding from the National Lottery and students are also being sought on a new weaves together autobiographical performance, website. This allows for the discussion to act as Community Fund, Arts Council England, Prime equality, diversity and inclusion statement that movement, pop songs, stand-up, and dress-up a transformative tool, enriching practitioners Theatre and The Royal Central School of Speech will be displayed in all teaching and rehearsal in an anarchic celebration of gender expression and to inform their practice. and Drama’s Special Research Fund. spaces. and identity. This show was performed at The Rose Lipman Building in London in September A number of Faculty staff have been engaging 2017 and Birmingham Repertory Theatre in proactively with the equality, diversity and November 2017. It was then programmed by HALPIN PARTNERSHIP RACE inclusion agenda, and the School is delighted Bush Theatre as part of their 2019 season. The EQUALITY REVIEW OF CENTRAL to have been able to make funds available text is published by Oberon Books. for a number of course and student related In 2018, Central’s Board of Governors initiatives. These include projects focussing To date, over 3,500 people have seen the commissioned Halpin Partnership to conduct on hidden histories of Central and the show and 91,000 people have viewed the an external and independent review of the Embassy Theatre, support for staff to develop trailer online. The performance was filmed School’s principles, practices and processes in and disseminate scholarship around the by the V&A Museum and will form part of relation to race equality and inclusion. There decolonisation of the curriculum and a PhD their National Video Archive of Performance. was a high level of participation from staff, project with the Black Theatre Archive in Alongside the performances, Outbox partnered students and alumni who variously took part

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association with the National Theatre. Central Professor Andrew Thompson, Executive Chair “I'm delighted to join this fantastic cohort of continues to work with Open Door in relation of the AHRC, said: New Generation Thinkers. My research is to its acting audition processes and has signed all about exploring self-representation with CENTRAL JOINS KNOWLEDGE "The New Generation Thinkers scheme is up to Stage Sight, an industry-led diversity migrant domestic and care workers, who are EXCHANGE FRAMEWORK PILOT all about helping the next generation of and inclusion initiative within technical, often undervalued and whose battles against researchers to find new and wider audiences GROUP management, design and other off-stage areas exploitation can go unheard. I am collaborating for their research by giving them a platform to of theatre practice. with this community on a series of soundwalks, Central is pleased to announce that it has share their ideas and allowing them to have the and experimenting with sound is key to the been selected by Research England as one of Diversity brings richness, knowledge and space to challenge our thinking. project. So it's brilliant to work with BBC Radio, 21 Higher Education Institutions in England innovation. Central is committed to proactively “The New Generation Thinkers scheme is also an exciting platform for new kinds of listening to take part in the new Knowledge Exchange embracing diversity in all its work and believes one of the major ways the AHRC engages the that will help to share migrant workers' Framework (KEF) pilot group. that understanding and valuing differences public with the inspiring research taking place perspectives with a wider audience." will help to find more ways to be excellent in Central is the smallest specialist arts institution across the UK. More than ever we need the new everything it does. The New Generation Thinkers were selected involved in the pilot group which also includes the insights and knowledge that come from arts from hundreds of applications from University of Oxford, London School of Economics and humanities researchers to help us navigate researchers at the start of their careers. and Political Science and Imperial College London, through the complexities of our globalised They have all demonstrated a passion for as well as fellow arts institutions University of the DR ELLA PARRY-DAVIES world and address the moral and ethical communicating their work and a skill for Arts London and Arts University Bournemouth. challenges of today and tomorrow." IS NAMED A 2019 ‘NEW making complex areas of study engaging, The pilot exercise will feed into a raft of evidence, GENERATION THINKER’ Central’s Director of Research, Professor Maria accessible, and enlightening. including from a sector-wide written consultation, Delgado, said: on how the KEF will operate in England. The final ten were chosen after a four-month Congratulations to Central’s British Academy Representatives from the devolved funding selection process, including a series of one- Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr Ella Parry-Davies, who "This is a remarkable achievement for Ella and bodies in Scotland and Wales are also attending. has been named a 2019 New Generation for Central. It will ensure her research reaches day workshops at the BBC in Salford and Thinker. Dr Parry-Davies is one of ten New new audiences and offer her a new platform for London. They have undergone training and The 21 universities selected are drawn from all Generation Thinkers to be selected by BBC the exchange of ideas. We are delighted to be development with the AHRC and will spend a of the proposed KEF clusters, and represent Radio 3, BBC Arts and the Arts and Humanities supporting her on this important project." year being mentored by producers from Radio a diverse range of English Higher Education Research Council (AHRC). 3’s Free Thinking programme. Throughout this Institutions, with a good geographical cross- Dr Ella Parry-Davies, British Academy programme they will take part in Free Thinking section of institutions from across the country. The New Generation Thinkers were chosen Postdoctoral Fellow at Central, said: discussions and go on to write episodes of BBC The KEF aims to provide institutions with after a national call for the best research ideas Radio 3’s The Essay. with the potential to be shared through the new ways to understand, benchmark and media. They will now have the opportunity Dr Ella Parry-Davies The selected academics were publicly unveiled improve their performance, and to provide to make programmes for Radio 3 and other at a free event recorded as part of BBC Radio business and other users of HEI knowledge outlets, as well as contributing to wider media 3’s Free Thinking Festival at Sage Gateshead on with another source of potentially useful through the AHRC and taking part in the 30 March and the event was broadcast on BBC information. Research England will work with 2019 Being Human Festival. In addition, the Radio 3 on 25 April. As with all Free Thinking the pilot group to test the specific metrics and scheme partners with BBC Four, where some programmes, the broadcast will also be on the proposed narrative statements, as well as the cluster membership, and how results should of the selected academics will be given the BBC Radio 3 website, BBC Sounds and as a BBC be presented, during a series of workshops opportunity to present a programme for TV. Arts & Ideas podcast. Further programmes focused on the NGT’s research will be aired between February and May 2019. Alongside Dr Parry-Davies, the other Thinkers throughout 2019. The outcomes of these workshops will for 2019 hail from University, Birkbeck be published in a report evaluating the College, University College London, and At the Free Thinking Festival, the 2019 New pilot, alongside an analysis of consultation the Universities of Cambridge, Reading, Generation Thinkers were joined by the 2018 responses. Research England anticipates Huddersfield and St Andrews. All of the New Thinkers, who recorded episodes of BBC Radio publishing these documents in early summer Generation Thinkers will be using their airtime 3’s The Essay before live audiences at Sage 2019, with final decisions on how the KEF to showcase a vibrant mix of research from Gateshead. should progress in late summer 2019. across the arts and humanities with a view to capturing the public imagination. More information about the KEF pilot programme can be found on Research England’s website https://re.ukri.org. 26 27 ALUMNI NEWS ALUMNI NEWS

We would like to extend a huge thank you to the many alumni that keep us ALUMNI AWARDS, up-to-date with their career news, highlights of which are included here. NOMINATIONS & RECOGNITIONS Some news is selected to be promoted inside the School on our plasma screens, to inspire Congratulations to all alumni who the next generation of Centralites, and some have recently won or been nominated is shared with the alumni community on our for awards. alumni social media groups. A comprehensive list of news is also uploaded to our ‘Alumni – At this year’s BAFTA Film Awards The Favourite, Latest News’ listings page, which can be found at starring Joe Alwyn (BA (Hons) Acting 2015) in www.cssd.ac.uk/content/alumni-latest-news the role of Masham, and including appearance from Alfrun Rose (BA (Hons) Acting 2016) and If you have provided the Alumni Office with Willem Dalby (BA (Hons) Acting CDT 2016), as your email address, you will continue to receive well as Principal, Professor Gavin Henderson regular snapshots of Central’s news by email CBE, won Outstanding British Film; Fantastic each term. For those of you who want to share Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald, which your breaking news with the entire alumni included special effects assistance fromSimon community, please post onto the Alumni Paraskevas (BA (Hons) Theatre Practice 2014), Facebook Group or LinkedIn Site, and also email won Best Production Design, and Rami Malek, [email protected] so that it can be uploaded whom Polly Bennett (MA Movement Studies to the ‘Alumni – Latest News’. 2011) provided movement design in order Read more to prepare for his role as Freddie Mercury in www.cssd.ac.uk/alumni Bohemian Rhapsody, won Best Actor. Six The Musical including lighting design from Tim Deiling. Photo by Idil Sukan, courtesy of Kevin Wilson PR. Update us on your career news online At the Off West End Awards;Lindsey Campbell www.cssd.ac.uk/update-your-details (BA (Hons) Acting 2013) won Best Performance in a Supporting Role in a Play for The Open Join the Alumni Community on Facebook House at Print Room; Zoe Spurr (BA (Hons) and including sound design from Carolyn Sir (Tech 1965) won ‘CSSD Alumni News – Official Site’ Theatre Practice 2012) won Best Lighting Design Downing (BA (Hons) Theatre Practice 2002) and five awards, including Best Choreography, for Tiny Dynamite​ at the Old Red Lion, and David performance from Nancy Crane (Stage 1984), Best Costume and Best Lighting Design. In Join the Alumni Community on LinkedIn (MA Advanced Theatre Practice 1998) won won Best Revival. We also had a number of addition to this, The Madness Of King George III, ‘Central’s Alumni Office’ Jubb a special award for his work as Artistic Director alumni nominated this year including Cecilia which included performance from Sara Powell Contact the Alumni Office of . Noble (Stage 1988) and for (Stage 1992), voice and dialect coaching from Shaun Northover & Meg Ryan Best Actress, and Carolyn Downing (BA (Hons) Hazel Holder (MA Voice Studies) and sound At this year’s Olivier Awards, Home, I'm Darling [email protected] Theatre Practice 2002) for Best Sound Design. design from Tom Gibbons (BA (Hons) Theatre won Best New Comedy, the production Practice 2008), won Best Play Revival, and Six +44 (0)20 7449 1636 Among this year’s WhatsOnStage Awards included set design from Lucy Carter (Tech The Musical, including lighting design from Tim were: Central’s President and alumnus, Alumni Office 1993), sound design from Tom Gibbons (BA Deiling (BA (Hons) Theatre Practice 2009), Michael Grandage (Stage 1984), who The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (Hons) Theatre Practice 2008) and performance won Best Regional Production. For a full list of received The Equity Award for Services to Eton Avenue from both Kathryn Drysdale (BA (Hons) the Central graduates that won, or worked on Theatre in recognition of his work on stage London NW3 3HY, UK Acting 1999) and Barnaby Kay (Stage 1992); productions that won, see www.cssd.ac.uk/ and to fostering new theatre talent. Vanessa The Inheritance, produced by Sonia Friedman news/whatsonstage-award-winners (Tech 1985), starring Vanessa Redgrave (Stage Redgrave (Stage 1957) won Best Supporting 1957) and including movement support from Actress in a Play for her performance in The Alia Alzougbi (MA Applied Theatre 2005) won Polly Bennett (MA Movement Studies 2011), Inheritance, which was produced by Sonia an Olwen Wymark Award presented by The won Best New Play, and Summer And Smoke, Friedman (Tech 1985), and also went on to Writers’ Guild in recognition of theatre figures also produced by Sonia Friedman (Tech 1985), win Best New Play, and Hamilton, produced by that have supported new writing.

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Left: Photo taken from Seenaryo's Showbuild 2018, programmes featuring work from alumnae Lama Amine and Lara McIvor, courtesy of Seenaryo.

Right: Lama Amine facillitating a workshop for Seenaryo. Photo by Alia Haju, courtesy of Seenaryo.

Nina Ayres (BA (Hons) Theatre Studies 1997) Award for his performance in The Tragedy of was co-nominated for a Costume Designers King Richard the Second at . ALUMNI IN THE COMMUNITY Guild Award for Excellence in Period Television Sue Mythen (MA Movement Studies 2005) was for her work on US television series, Outlander. nominated for an Irish Times Theatre Award Central’s alumni produce a high standard of work across a multitude of disciplines Georgia Christou (BA (Hons) Acting 2008) for Best Movement for her work on Abbey in the arts, theatre and education sectors, and beyond. The following provides a was nominated for a BAFTA Craft Award Theatre’s The Lost O’Casey. snapshot of some of their work-to-date: in the category of Breakthrough Talent for Callie Nestleroth (MFA Advanced Theatre writing Channel 4’s Through The Gates, and Samuel Allan (BA (Hons) Theatre Practice and Jordan. Their artistic projects and holistic Practice 2018) has been chosen to be the Stage Rachel Parris (MA Acting for Screen 2007) was 2018) worked with Octavia Crawford Collins, approach to education support personal Directors and Choreographers Foundation nominated for a BAFTA Television Award in the Thomas Holloway, Eugenio Feito (all BA development, academic achievement and social (SDCF) Observer for new musical, Diana, category of Entertainment Performance for (Hons) Theatre Practice 2018), and current cohesion – and allow people’s voices to be heard. about Princess Diana, directed by Christopher British comedy, The Mash Report. student Hal Forman, to create ‘The Cauldron’, Silvia Baltodano (BA (Hons) Acting Musical Ashley. The show runs at La Jolla Playhouse an immersive cocktail experience in Dalston Theatre 2013) is Director of Luciérnaga (Stage 1977) won a London in California. SDCF’s Observership Program imagined by Matthew Courtland. Over the Producciones, a production company in Costa Critics Circle Award for Best British/Irish Actor provides early to mid-career directors and course of 6 weeks, they designed and built, Rica working on renowned international of the Year for his performance in The Happy choreographers paid opportunities to using mainly reclaimed pallet wood and found productions such as West Side Story and Prince, a biopic of the life of Oscar Wilde, which observe the work of master directors and materials, everything from tables, hydroponic Chicago. She is also the Academic Director of La in addition to starring in, he wrote and directed, choreographers as they create productions shelving units, wall flats and potion boxes. The Colmena, Art in Community, a multidisciplinary for which he also won Best First Feature at the on Broadway, Off-Broadway and at leading centre piece included a beer dispensing tree, training space for young artists. Satellite Awards. regional theatres across the country. operated with sensors that were triggered with Sonia Friedman (Tech 1985) was named (Stage 1989) was shortlisted ‘magical’ wands. Pavlos Christodoulou (MA Actor Training and Coaching 2018) is now a Creative Workshop Producer of the Year for a record-breaking for a National Television Award this year for Lama Amine (MA Movement Studies 2016) Leader for the University of Creative Arts, as fourth time at The Stage Awards 2019. Best TV Presenter, and The Graham Norton is now Operations Manager and Lara McIvor well as Workshop Facilitator for Battersea Arts Show was shortlisted for The Bruce Forsyth (MA Applied Theatre 2017) is Country Manager Martins Imhangbe (BA (Hons) Acting CDT Centre. In addition to this, he is an Associate Entertainment Award. in Jordan for Seenaryo, an arts and education 2013) has been shortlisted for an Ian Charleson Director for Phosphoros Theatre and Artistic organisation that works with refugees, and Director for Dirty Rascals Theatre. the communities that host them, in Lebanon

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Michael Clark (MA Drama and Movement develop international partnerships between the María Inés Olmedo (MA Advanced Theatre Sinead Rushe (MA Advanced Theatre Practice Therapy 2015) founded Canti Dramatherapy, UK and South Korea. Practice 2018) has founded Opera MIO, with 1998), Central’s Senior Lecturer in Acting offering both therapeutic and non-therapeutic a mission to re-imagine the opera experience. and Movement, has recently published her Ruut Luoto (MA Advanced Theatre Practice interventions for adults and children across the In addition to this, she is co-founder of CO book, Michael Chekhov’s Acting Technique: 2017) was recently appointed Turku City South East and London on a sessional basis. Productions, based in Mexico City, who with a A Practitioner’s Guide. Intended for actors, Theatre’s Director of Audience Development, passion and curiosity for the performing arts directors, teachers and researchers, this book Jessica Glaisher (BA (Hons) Theatre Practice responsible for theatre work on public projects have created productions in different genres offers a clear and thorough introduction to 2010) is now Deputy Head of Lighting for The and school cooperation. and formats such as immersive theatre, opera, the renowned acting technique developed by Young Vic. Daniel Mariñoc (MA Applied Theatre 2015) clown theatre, musical theatre, classical theatre Michael Chekhov. Caitlin Godwin (BA (Hons) Drama, Applied has been working with , facilitating adaptations, as well as traditional dramas and Ruth Silver (BA (Hons) Drama, Applied Theatre Theatre and Education 2018) is Artistic Director drama workshops around their recent comedies. and Education 2004) now runs KangaRooKids, of The Bull Youth Theatre, running weekly production of Arthur Miller’s The American Clock Al Parkinson (BA (Hons) Theatre Practice set up to instil confidence in children through sessions for local 13 to 21 year olds interested as part of an initiative to engage secondary 2003) is Director of Production at Leicester creative arts. They teach drama and music to in performance and theatre-making. In addition schools in areas of London with poor arts Curve Theatre, and also founded AP Event infants up to 4 year of age, as well as structured to this, she also facilitates workshops at provisions. In addition to this he is a Creative & Production Ltd, set up to provide bespoke primary school drama sessions for 4 to 11 Jackson Lane, supporting inner city community Practitioner for Emergency Exit Arts, and has solutions for live events which most recently year olds, school holiday camps and children's arts outreach through circus workshops and worked with Half Moon Young People’s Theatre have provided production and technical parties for 1 to 7 year olds. In addition to this, facilitating rehearsals for shows performed by for a number of years. management for a gala at the Curve she also works with the charity, Spread a Smile, neuro-diverse children and teenagers. Karen Maycock (BA (Hons) Theatre Practice Theatre in 2018, and the Birmingham 2022 providing entertainment for ill children and Sophie Howell (BA (Hons) Drama, Applied 2005) co-founded an event production Commonwealth Games. teenagers in hospitals. Theatre and Education 2014) has been company, Live Wire Productions Ltd. Founded Claudia Rebolledo Sánchez and Varshini Jack Tricker, Federico Beard Porcel, Andy Hill appointed Creative Learning Officer at the on a passion for entertainment, they take Pichemuthu (both MA Applied Theatre 2017) and John Scallon (all BA (Hons) Drama, Applied Royal Lyceum in Edinburgh, working to enable audiences on a journey, exposing their senses both founded and are Artistic Directors of Theatre and Education 2018) have launched young people between the ages of 5 to 18 to to an exploration of light, sound and visuals. Rootprints Theatre, a company set up to their company, Voicebox, which utilises get involved in drama, providing a broad range Tapping into their emotions and creating an develop and facilitate bespoke workshops to drama as an access point for young males of high quality theatre experiences in a positive intimacy between show and spectator, whilst communities in London. to engage with ‘what it mean to be a man’. and supportive environment. delivering an experience that is both immersive and enduring, and have worked with venues Hanna Junti (MFA Movement: Directing and including The Southbank Centre and the Teaching 2017) has started her PhD on the . work of movement directors in Estonian Contemporary Theatre whilst also providing Charity Miller (MA Drama and Movement movement direction for shows in Estonia and Therapy 2018) is now a Dramatherapist for Sweden later this year. Agape Theatre, a spiritual and community based organisation that produces and promotes Simon Kenny (BA (Hons) Theatre Practice original plays from predominantly African 2001), Rajha Shakiry (MA Scenography 2011), American playwrights, while reaching across Laura Price (MA Scenography 2018), Laura social, economic and racial boundary lines. Cuervo (MA Scenography 2016) and a number of current students have been selected by The Alice Olley (BA (Hons) Theatre Practice 2018) Society of British Theatre Design to exhibit their was a Scenic Artist for The Fashion Awards 2018 recent work in a show called 'Staging Places: UK at Royal Albert Hall and Secret Cinema’s Romeo Design for Performance 2015-2019' at Prague and Juliet, both working for Illusion Design and Quadrennial this year, the largest scenography Construct, founded by Rory Evans and Daniel event in the world. Hughes (both BA (Hons) Theatre Practice 2011), a specialist company dedicated to creating scenery Lisa Lapidge (MA Voice Studies 2016) received of the highest professional standard, for all funding from the British Council, ACE and ARKO sectors of the entertainment and retail industries. for an exchange with Momsori Voice Theatre to

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Their workshops aim to promote young males understanding of variable forms of masculinity, ALUMNI STAGE, SCREEN AND RADIO as well as empower young people to be EVENTS individual, confident and empathetic towards Central graduates continue to make their mark in theatre, TV, radio and film in the others. The company was one of five graduate CENTRAL PARTY IN NEW YORK UK, and beyond. Below are some recent highlights in addition to those listed in our theatre companies that received £5K in funding Our annual Central Party in New York will Alumni Awards and Nominations section. from Central’s Start Up and Enterprise Fund take place on Monday 20 May, from 6.00pm last year. For any enquiries please contact Jack – 8.00pm at The Player’s Club in Gramercy at [email protected] or follow them Park. We very much look forward to catching on Twitter @VoiceboxTweets or Facebook @ up with our alumni living, working or passing VoiceboxOrg for more information. through the New York area. We will also be Beth Warnock (BA (Hons) Drama, Applied joined by Selina Busby and a number of her Theatre and Education 2014) is now students, who will be there to discuss the range Community Engagement Manager at Barbican of Applied Theatre projects in New York that Centre. they’re involved in. RSVP by emailing alumni@ cssd.ac.uk Mark Wong (MA Voice Studies 2015) is now working at the Victorian College of the Arts CENTRAL PARTY IN EDINBURGH in Melbourne, Australia, as a Music Theatre Spoken Voice Teacher. We will be returning to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year to host our annual Central John Venier (BA (Hons) Theatre Practice 2017) Party in Edinburgh on Tuesday 13 August is a Construction Draftsperson for The Royal from 5.00pm – 7.00pm at The Scottish Arts Opera House, overseeing the production of Club, located on Rutland Square. All Central Left: Ike Bennett as Roman Donahue in Sky One's Curfew. Photo by Gareth Gatrell, ©Tiger Aspect Productions, courtesy of Moonage Pictures. scenic items within the workshop to ensure Right: Aretha Ayeh and cast in Leave To Remain. Photo by Helen Maybanks, courtesy of Lyic Hammersmith. students and alumni are invited, so if you are they are constructed to specification. at the festival, please join us in raising a glass Andrew Visnevski (Stage 1976) has been in celebration. RSVP by emailing alumni@cssd. Alisha Bailey (BA (Hons) Acting 2009) performs woman who lives quietly in the world, but invited to become Associate Teacher on the ac.uk at The Almeida Theatre in their production loudly in her mind. newly created, and unique to Greece, 3-year of The Twilight Zone, based on the critically Rebecca Brower (BA (Hons) Theatre Practice training programme for theatre directors at the acclaimed television series, and running from ARE YOU INVOLVED IN A SHOW AT THE 2011) provided set design and Anna Watson Drama School of the Greek National Theatre in 4 March to 1 June. She also stars in upcoming EDINBURGH FRINGE? (BA (Hons) Theatre Practice 2000) provided Athens. In addition to this he has also initiated movie, Backdraft II, a sequel to Ron Howard’s lighting design for Lyric Hammersmith’s the first International Summer School in We want to hear about any shows that 1991 firefighter drama Backdraft. production, Leave to Remain. The production Theatre in Kalamata in the South Peloponnese, alumni and students will be involved in at the (BA (Hons) Acting 2017) plays ran from 18 January to 16 February, and (KaDISS). Edinburgh Festival Fringe, as we can help to Ike Bennett promote them across our networks. Email us at Roman Donahue in Sky One’s new show, included performance from Aretha Ayeh (BA Curfew [email protected] to tell us about your show. , including a star studded cast about a (Hons) Acting Musical Theatre 2012). group of amateur drivers from across the world Ben Burratta (MA Actor Training and Coaching competing in a night-time street race. CLASS OF 1993 REUNION 2007), Central’s BA DATE lecturer, devised Justin Brett (Stage 1995) returned to and directed his theatre company, Outbox We look forward to welcoming the class of 1993 Showstopper the Improvised Musical for its new Theatre’s new play, And the Rest Of Me Floats, back to Central on Saturday 5 October from London residency on the West End, the first about the messy business of gender. The play 1.00pm for a 25-year reunion. If you were in since its Olivier-winning 2015 run, which he also included sound design from Dominic Kennedy this class and would like to attend, please RSVP performed in. (BA (Hons) Theatre Practice 2013), and saw by emailing [email protected] performers from across the trans, non-binary, Audrey Brisson (BA (Hons) Acting Musical and queer communities weaving together Theatre 2009) stars in the UK Tour of Amélie the autobiographical performance, movement, pop Musical, which runs from 11 April to 19 October songs, stand-up and dress-up in an anarchic and is based on the much loved five-time Oscar celebration of gender expression and identity. nominated film about an astonishing young

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Left: Lucas Button as Billy in Kes. Photo by Anthony Robling, courtesy of Leeds Playhouse.

Middle: Martin Freeman starring in Pinter Seven as part of the Pinter at the Pinter Season. Photo by Marc Brenner, courtesy of Joe Public.

Right:Killian Macardle appearing in The Comedy About A Bank Roberry, UK Tour. Photo by Robert Day, courtesy of Helen Snell Ltd.

Lucas Button (BA (Hons) Acting CDT 2016) Theatre Practice 2012) on Olivier Award- design from Rachel Sampley (MA Advanced Advanced Theatre Practice 2000), and after played the leading role, Billy Casper, in Kes, nominated Schism, which was produced by Theatre Practice 2015), and ran at Southwark premiering at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe running at Leeds Playhouse from 25 January to current student Hector Moyes. Playhouse from 14 February to 9 March. last year is now touring. In addition to this, she 16 February. has worked on design for touring productions, Andrew Ellis (BA (Hons) Theatre Practice 2005) Martin Freeman (Stage 1995) starred in Harold Pride and Prejudice* (*Sort Of) and A Thousand Roisin Carty (Advanced Dip Voice Studies 1995) provided lighting design for Sadler’s Wells’ Pinter’s A Slight Ache/The Dumb Waiter (Pinter Splendid Suns. was the Dialect Coach for Tim Burton’s recently production Them/Us, which ran from 5 to 9 Seven), running from 23 January to 23 February released adaptation of Disney’s Dumbo. March. as part of the Pinter at the Pinter Season, for Kadiff Kirwan (BA (Hons) Acting Musical which Tracy-Ann Oberman (Stage 1991) also Theatre 2011) appears in season two of Phoebe Ricardo Carvajal (MA Acting for Screen 2015) James Ellis (MA Acting 2010) recently starred in Party Time/Celebration (Pinter Six), Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag, and returns to play wrote, directed and produced Spanish film,2 performed at the Dubai Opera House in Othello, running from 20 December 2018 to 26 January Jason in ITV’s Timewasters. In addition to this, he Rambos, about a charismatic and known dealer running from 30 January to 2 February after a 2019. plays Mayor in feature filmPokémon Detective from the underground movement in Madrid critically acclaimed tour and London run of the Pikachu starring Ryan Reynolds. who inherits his father's mechanic workshop. production last year. It was directed by Richard Andrew Garfield (BA (Hons) Acting 2004) stars Twyman, and produced by English Touring in Under a Silver Lake, an American neo-noir Jack Knowles (BA (Hons) Theatre Practice 2008) Lizzie Clachan (MA Advanced Theatre Practice Theatre. mystery film written, produced and directed by provided lighting design for Shipwrecked at 1998) provided set design for both The Son, David Robert Mitchell. Almeida Theatre, which included performance at the , running from 20 February Rosie Elnile (BA (Hons) Theatre Practice 2014) from Fisayo Akinade (BA (Hons) Acting to 6 April, and Cyprus Avenue, at Royal Court, provided costume design for The Old Vic’s James Hume (BA (Hons) Drama, Applied Theatre CDT 2011), and he is now providing lighting which also included sound design from David production of Arthur Miller’s The American Clock, and Education 2011) is currently performing in design for National Theatre’s Top Girls, which McSeveney (BA (Hons) Theatre Practice 2002), running from 4 February to 30 March, and set the West End’s Les Miserable, produced by Sir includes staff direction fromSita Thomas (MA and ran from 14 April to 23 March. design for The Ridiculous Darkness at The Gate Cameron Mackintosh (Tech 1965). Movement Studies 2012), and runs from 26 Theatre running from 27 February to 23 March. Joe Dines (BA (Hons) Theatre Practice 2018 Emilio Iannucci (BA (Hons) Acting CDT 2015) March to 22 June. provided sound design for The Beast on the Manolis Emmanouel (MA Performance appeared in Traitors, showing on Channel 4 and Killian Macardle (BA (Hons) Acting Musical Moon at the , which included Studies 2001) has recently completed filming Netflix, and also starred in the recently released Theatre 2014) plays Officer Randal Shuck, and performance from Zarima McDermott for Michael Winterbottom's latest movie, Greed, film,Youth Condemn, alongside Matthew Damien Lynch (Webber Douglas) plays Robin (MA Acting 2017) in the leading role of Seta a satire about the world of the super-rich Coulton (BA (Hons) Acting CDT 2014). Freeboys, in the UK Tour of Mischief Theatre’s Tomasian. He was also assistant sound designer, produced by Film 4 which will be released in Ana Ines Jabares Pita (MA Scenography 2012) A Comedy About A Bank Robbery, which includes working alongside Tom Gibbons (BA (Hons) cinemas later this year. provided set design for What Girls are Made Of, understudy from Ross Virgo (MA Acting 2014). Theatre Practice 2008), for All About Eve at Noël Michael Fox (BA (Hons) Acting CDT 2013) which was directed by Orla O’Loughlin (MA David Howe (Tech 1993) also provides lighting Coward Theatre, and was associate sound performed in All in a Row, which included lighting design for this and the London production, designer alongside Pete Malkin (BA (Hons)

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which includes understudy from Kieran Mortell Sacha Plaige (MA Movement: Directing and (MA Acting 2012). Teaching 2018) was Assistant Movement Director on Katya Kabanova which ran at the Royal Opera INTRODUCTION Rhidian Marc (BA (Hons) Acting Musical Theatre House from 4 to 26 February. 2009) is currently performing in the West End’s Central is a charitable Wicked. Alejandro Postigo (MA Music Theatre 2010/ institution. We receive funding MPhil/PhD 2017) took his show The Copla Musical, from the Higher Education Ita O’Brien (MA Movement Studies 2007) was which he has developed as part of his PhD at Funding Council for England, as Intimacy Coordinator for Netflix’sSex Education, Central, to the Tristan Bates Theatre from 15 to well as private donations from which included appearances from James 20 April. The show has so far travelled to festivals individuals, corporations, and Purefoy (Stage 1988), Alice Hewkin (BA (Hons) in Europe and America, and was awarded the trusts and foundations. These Acting CDT 2014), Tom Colley (MA Acting for Musical Theatre Award at the Danail Chirpanski different forms of support Screen 2010) and Milly Thomas (BA (Hons) Festival in Bulgaria. enable the School to build and Acting 2014). grow in line with the needs of Finn Ross (BA (Hons) Theatre Practice 2003) Enyi Okoronkwo (MA Acting 2014) plays Damis our students, the industry, and provided video design for Frankenstein, which in National Theatre’s production of Tartuffe, academic research. ran at the Royal Opera House from 5 to 23 running until 30 April, and also including Nathan March and included Johanna Adams Farley Significantly, Central is open Armarkwei-Laryea (BA (Hons) Acting 2014) (Tech 1973) as Stage Manager, and Sarah to all potential students as a member of the ensemble and understudy BUILDING THE BECOME A Woodward (BA (Hons) Drama, Applied Theatre regardless of their background Damis, as well as performance from Hari and Education 2013) as Deputy Stage Manager. and is committed to providing FUTURE: CENTRAL’S CORPORATE Dhillon (Webber Douglas). In addition to this, he also worked on video access to over £400,000 of NEW NORTH BLOCK SUPPORTER Georgie Oulton (BA (Hons) Acting 2017) will design, alongside Gareth Fry (BA (Hons) scholarships and bursaries per DEVELOPMENT take, as part of her theatre company Theatre Theatre Studies 1996) who provided sound year. We seek to retain those As a community of innovative Handmade, her new show Two The Power Of design, for English National Opera’s production who struggle financially and individuals with a passion for theatre and performing Three to the Brighton Fringe this year, before of The Magic Flute, which ran at London to enable all students to reach In January 2019, Central was taking the show on tour to Bristol, London and Coliseum from 14 March to 11 April. their full potential, making delighted to open its new North arts, Central has the creativity New York. This follows a successful first year financial aid a key area of Block Building, providing a to bring tangible benefits Tanika Yearwood (BA (Hons) Theatre Practice touring the company’s production of Amelia development. major increase in rehearsal and to corporate partners. By 2017) performs in Shakespeare Globe’s Bullmore's Di & Viv & Rose to London's Tea performance space for students, supporting Central your production Emilia, which includes lighting design We are grateful to all our donors House Theatre, Somerset House and last year’s as well as creating a new asset organisation can make a direct from Zoe Spurr (BA (Hons) Theatre Practice and welcome new supporters Edinburgh Festival Fringe. for the local community. We and major impact on the lives 2012), and after a successful run there is now who help Central achieve its are currently in the process or of our students and the quality performing at the West End’s Vaudeville Theatre Josh Parr (BA (Hons) Drama, Applied Theatre mission to develop practitioners raising the final £40,000 of this of their specialist training. from 8 March to 15 June. and Education 2015) directed The Jumper Factory, and researchers who shape £16.7m project, with several You will be partnering with a which ran at The Young Vic from 27 February to the future of theatre and There are many, many more examples of opportunities available for world-renowned brand with a 9 March, and included lighting design from Jess performance across the UK and alumni achievements that we have been potential supporters. 100+ year legacy of excellence Glaisher (BA (Hons) Theatre Practice 2010). beyond. informed of which you can read about on our in the performing arts, and To find out more about the at the same time investing Declan Perring (BA (Hons) Acting 2013) wrote ‘Alumni – Latest News’ listings page at www. new North Block building in the training and learning new play, Sam. The Good Person, which has cssd.ac.uk /alumni-latest-news and learn how you can help opportunities for many of been published by Oberon Modern Plays and To tell us about alumni work that you are build Central’s future, please our students. had its first run at The Bunker Theatre from involved in, please email the Alumni Office at contact Sophie Hussey on 15 to 19 January. He has also been cast in the [email protected] or see www.cssd.ac.uk/ +44 (0)20 7559 3975 / email If you want to join our world premiere of Intra Muros. The play, by update-your-details to complete the online [email protected] community and become multi Molière award winning French playwright form. Please also remember to share your / www.cssd.ac.uk/content/ involved as a corporate Alexis Michalik, ran at The Park Theatre until 4 news with the rest of the Central Alumni centrals-new-north-block- supporter, please contact May, and was directed by Che Walker (Webber Community on the alumni Facebook Group development. Meg Ryan on +44 (0)20 7449 Douglas) and includes lighting design from David ‘CSSD Alumni News – Official Site’, or the 1636 / email meg.ryan@ Howe (Tech 1993). alumni LinkedIn Group ‘Central’s Alumni cssd.ac.uk. Office’

38 39 PIVOT CLUB SUPPORTER OUR SUPPORTERS EVENING EVENTS ‘If you are passionate about theatre, be passionate Central is grateful to all its supporters and particularly thanks the following about its future.’ Michael Grandage CBE, President, Circles, Stalls, Chairman’s and individuals, companies and foundations who have recently made donations of The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama President’s Club supporters £1,000 or more to support our work and our students. are invited to the Autumn Term reception on evening PIVOT CLUB SUPPORTERS Penny Brandt Jackson and We are also grateful to those who Central is indebted to of Thursday 28 November Thomas Campbell Jackson* have supported Central’s new LEGACY AND IN Kitty Corrigan the increasing number of (performance title tbc). Wendy Craig North Block. In particular, our Sonia Friedman Productions individuals who have chosen to MEMORY GIVING Dame CH DBE thanks go to: If you would like to reserve your Michael Grandage CBE Michael Irving support the talent of the future Central is overwhelmed by the place or enquire about joining The Mackintosh Foundation Anonymous Monty James by joining the Pivot Club, our number of individuals who the Pivot Club please contact Gareth Neame Foundation The Atkin Foundation Chris and Birthe King membership scheme whose have either chosen to leave a Meg Ryan on +44 0207 449 The Andy Stewart Charitable The Beatrice Lillie International original membership included gift in their Will, or who have 1636 / [email protected] Foundation Frances McCain* College of Comedy and Musical Sir Laurence Olivier and Dame made a gift in memory of a The Hilary and Stuart Williams In memory of Colin McCormack Theatre Peggy Ashcroft. There are loved one. Foundation for the Arts Christopher Neame The Foyle Foundation three levels of membership, Sir Tony Robinson KBE Gareth Neame Foundation Leaving a gift in your Will may with all gifts making a direct Anonymous Paul Watkinson Garfield Weston Foundation help fund scholarships, act Ros and Alan Haigh impact on Central’s ability to * supports our work through the British The Roger and Ingrid Pilkington as investment in long-term John Kinder support students, professional Schools and Universities Foundation, Inc. Trust capital projects, or simply Alison Love practitioners and researchers provide much-needed funds Sir Siegmund Warburg’s Voluntary Richard Pilbrow* alike. All funds raised help to to enhance the School’s Settlement Clare Rich TRUSTS AND FOUNDATIONS shape the future of theatre and charitable objectives. Legacies Winship Foundation Donna and Ben Rosen* The Andrew Lloyd Webber performance in the UK and and bequests are exempt from The Wolfson Foundation Murray Rosenthal and Philip Foundation abroad. inheritance tax, meaning that Hagemann as a registered charity any gift The Behrens Foundation The Estate of Yvette Pienne Patricia Storace* Pivot Club membership bequeathed to Central will The British Schools and The Estate of Walter Ross Claire Tremeer and Bob Reichert* levels are: be tax deductible. In Memory Universities Foundation Sonia Friedman Productions gifts can be used to support HSM Charitable Trust > Pivot Friend Victoria Dickie Ros and Alan Haigh £75 per annum (£6 per month Central more generally, or The late John Drummond The Leverhulme Trust can be specifically directed Professor Gavin Henderson CBE on Direct Debit) Michael Estorick The Neaveth Fund (University of towards a cause in tribute to Julia and Julian Markson Andrew Galloway London) > Pivot Circle the particular interests of the Christian Poltera £300 per annum (£24 per Brian Goodban The Roger and Ingrid Pilkington deceased. Roger Reed month on Direct Debit) Dame Pippa Harris DBE Charitable Trust The Savile Club Paul Watkinson > Pivot Stalls For further information Gavin Henderson CBE Sophie’s Silver Lining Fund £1,200 per annum (£95 per about Legacy and In Memory Nick Hern Donors to the George Hall and month on Direct Debit). Giving, please contact Meg Anne Mensah The Sylvia Waddilove Litz Pisk Fund Ryan on +44 (0)20 7449 1636 / Nicholas Murphy Foundation UK > Pivot Chairman’s Circle [email protected]. John Peach The Terence Rattigan Society £5,000 per annum A complete list of our supporters Charles Perrin CBE University of London Trusts can be found on Central’s > Pivot President’s Circle Christian Poltera website www.cssd.ac.uk. £10,000 per annum Alex Shinder CORPORATE SUPPORTERS To find out more please Paul Taiano OBE We also thank all individuals contact Meg Ryan on John Willis The Agency (London) Ltd. who generously give their time +44 (0)20 7449 1636 / Chimera Recruitment and expertise to support our [email protected], DONORS ETC students throughout their or see www.cssd.ac.uk/ The Hall School training and beyond. Anonymous support-us. Sky Wendy Allnutt TAIT Stewart Annand* Voice Care Network 40 41