Central School of Speech and Drama

The Central School of Speech and Drama, a constituent college of the University of London since 2005, was founded in 1906 by Elsie Fogerty to offer a new form of training in speech and drama for young actor and other students. Before the war, it was based at the Royal Albert Hall although it moved during the war to Exeter. In 1963, a breakaway group of teachers and students founded Drama Centre London in nearby Chalk Farm. Nowadays, Central's campus is centred around the Embassy Theatre in Swiss Cottage in North London, and, as a government-funded Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning benefits from state-of-the-art facilities. Central is not only an acting school, offering training and education in the broadest range of vocational and applied theatre specialisms available anywhere in the world. Courses are provided in acting, costume design, design for the stage, directing, applied theatre & education, drama and movement therapy, dramaturgy, lighting design and production,... full article at wikipedia