Royal Central School Of Speech & Drama

Our #tbt this week, is celebrating the birthday of William Faulkner, born on this day in 1897, Noble prize winner and writer of 'The Sound and the Fury' - performed last year by our talented Acting CDT students at The Pleasance Theatre

Welcome back everyone! We hope you’re feeling well rested from the summer break cause Central Students' Union have got an amazing two weeks full of freshers events planned for you all!

Khadija Raza wins Best Designer at The Stage Debut Awards 2018 for her work with the Arcola Theatre, Bush Theatre, and Royal Exchange Theatre (BA Design for stage 17)
Credit: David Monteith-Hodge / Photographise

Alumni Theatre Company JAMS and winners of this year's Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award 2018 perform their show 'Marathon' at Barbican Centre from 20 Sep #JAMSmarathon http://sites.barbican.org.uk/marathon/

Alum #KibongTanji makes her West End debut as female understudy for Arinzé Kene in the incredible #MistyThePlay Trafalgar Studios as it transfers from Bush Theatre www.timeout.com/…/arinze-kene-sometimes -i-feel-i-should-emb…

Calling all new students 📢 Are you prepared for freshers 2018?! Make sure to follow Central Students' Union to stay up to date on all the excitement #Freshers2018

Thank you to our friends Playbill and PLAYBILLder for featuring the work of our talented Theatre Practice students in their annual Back to School week! http://www.playbill.com/…/an-inside-loo k-at-the-royal-centr…

Even though its nearly the start of the Autumn term here, we're still reeling from our talented Diploma students who finished this summer. Could a part-time Gap Year Diploma work for you? #GapYear #CSSDDiploma https://www.cssd.ac.uk/course/gap-year-di ploma (Musical Theatre Diploma Students 2018)

Happy Friday! Check out this beautiful sneak peak of our new North Block 👀 #CSSDlondon
Read more about some our new facilities here... www.cssd.ac.uk/content/centrals-new-north -block-development

As The Jamie Lloyd Company prepares to host a season of alumnus Harold Pinter's one-act plays to mark the tenth year anniversary of his death, which will include performance from alumni Martin Freeman and Tracy-Ann Oberman, The Stage look back at the one-act plays that helped the playwright find his voice... #CSSDAlumni https://www.thestage.co.uk/…/archive-on e-act-plays-that-he…/

Congratulations to Dr Selina Busby, who has been awarded a National Teaching Fellowship - one of the most prestigious awards for higher education teaching. https://www.cssd.ac.uk/…/dr-selina-busb y-awarded-national-t…

Congratulations to the wonderful Vanessa Regrave on her Lifetime Achievement from Venice Film Festival. #GoldenLion #CSSDalumni

Need something interesting to listen to on your bank holiday travels? Central's Reader in Theatre and Performance Kate Elswit was on BBC Radio 4's series The Rhythm of Life earlier this week, speaking with Dame Evelyn Glennie about breath and embodied rhythms. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bfy970

Central will now be closed through Tuesday 28 August for the Bank Holiday weekend. We will reopen as normal on Wednesday 29 August. Have a lovely break!

Design is such an essential element of performance. Here's all the lovely things our graduates had to say about working with all kinds of designers, from lighting to set!

Sending many congratulations to alumni Rachel Vogler and Kim Turford whose new company Houselights - set up to better equip graduating theatre professionals to report sexual harassment in the industry - was featured yesterday in The Stage https://www.thestage.co.uk/…/new-worksh ops-drama-students-…/

What's it like to be a performer at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe? Check out all of our alumni shows while you still can... www.cssd.ac.uk/content/central-edinburgh- 2018