Rose Bruford College | News & Events

We are pleased to announce that we will again be the host for the British National Stage Combat Workshops 2018, run by the British Academy of Stage and Screen Combat (BASSC). 

Prospective applicants interested in the Access to Higher Education Diploma in Production Arts can get a taste for the course by booking onto our free workshop on Saturday 16 June.  

New Writing Season 2018

Join final year students Ugly Duck in Tanner Street for Beginners' Call, the 2018 Graduate Exhibition by the School of Design, Management and Technical Arts , featuring scene, costume, lighting and sound designs and other individual pieces of work by over 100 new graduates, showing the diverse talent, creativity and skills of a new generation of theatre artists.

Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance is delighted to announce the awarding of their 2018 The Stage Scholarship to Yadel Gebeyehu. 

Thursday 17 May 2018 saw the official release of Brecht: A Practical Handbook a new book by BA (Hons) Acting Programme Director David Zoob. 

Pupils from Trinity School in Belvedere had the unique opportunity to light the National Theatre as part of their prize for winning Junior Ready Steady Light 2018.

The College was saddened to learn of the death on 25 March 2018 of James Dodding, who had very longstanding connections with the institution both as a student, teacher and board member, and with Rose Bruford herself. 

A team of Rose Bruford College BA (Hons) Lighting Design students won two of the three awards at The Society of Light and Lighting’s (SLL) national lighting design competition. 

The Hypocrite cast members Jake Setters and Melissa Knighton took a break from rehearsals to be interviewed live on national radio on Monday 5 March 2018.

Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance has been ranked as the safest institution in the university sector in London for the second consecutive year. 

Our latest BA (Hons) European Theatre Arts spotlight is on 2012 graduate Rosanna Sloan. 

Stage Managers from Germany, Austria and Switzerland gathered at Rose Bruford College, from the 16 July to 21 July, for a week-long symposium.

Rose Bruford College has been awarded a Gold award in the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF), which was introduced by the Government to recognise and reward excellent teaching in UK higher education providers.

See the next generation of actors and actor musicians perform in three new plays in association with Tonic Theatre, Chaskis Theatre & Action To The Word.

In an age of extremes, when the stakes seem impossibly high, the gap between winners and losers grows ever wider. And what’s wrong with that? Martin Crimp’s satire of contemporary obsessions is given a sinister new twist in this multi-media production integrating live music, video projection and a can-do attitude.

Following on from December’s workshops, Directing’s Quantum Moment, Rose Bruford College is please to launch two further opportunities to develop your directing skills.

On Us: A Celebration of Womanhood created by Christopher Parks & Company

A theatre company formed by students on the College’s BA (Hons) European Theatre Arts programme has recently returned from a successful trip to Sweden where they performed their debut production The Crossing Place at the prestigious Västmanlands Teater in Västerås.

It’s full swing in the Australian festival season and four BA (Hons) European Theatre Arts (ETA) graduates have been strutting their stuff in Melbourne, Perth and now Adelaide.

Rose Bruford College is now accepting applications for the Jubilee Fund 2017. This year the fund will be used to subsidise graduate company performances in our managed space within the Summerhall complex in Edinburgh throughout the Edinburgh Fringe 2017.

Our Autumn Season of classic plays, performed by students on our BA (Hons) Acting and BA (Hons) Actor Musicianship programmes, concludes with The Seagull by Anton Chekhov, in a version by Martin Crimp

Book now for our free workshop for those interested in applying for our BA (Hons) Creative Lighting Control and BA (Hons) Lighting Design programmes.

World-renowned illustrator Sir Quentin Blake joined a list of distinguished theatre professionals including Rosalie Craig, Jane ‘The Hat’ Smith, Murray Melvin and Sheila Reid to be conferred as Fellows and Honorary Fellows of Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance.

We were saddened to hear of the recent passing of graduate Will Forster on Wednesday 10 August.

A host of industry guests, including Oscar winner and Honorary Fellow Jenny Beavan, attended the 2016 Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance New Theatre Contemporaries Graduate Exhibition and New Writing Season, at the prestigious Bargehouse on London’s South Bank from the 8-12 June 2016.

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Directed by Nir Paldi & George Mann

We are delighted to collaborate again with multi-award-winning Theatre Ad Infinitum in the creation of an entirely new piece of work.

Rose Bruford College graduates have been at the heart of BBC programmes celebrating inspirational figures in black Theatre.

Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance is delighted to announce the opening of the Chris Johnston Memorial Fund – we are now accepting applications for the 2018 award. 

Our London Season concludes with Assassins by Stephen Sondheim & John Weidman

Our London Season kicks off with Dogville, adapted from the celebrated crime drama by controversial screenwriter Lars von Trier.

Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance Chair of Governors, Monisha Shah, has been appointed to the Board of new universities’ regulator, The Office for Students (OfS).

European Theatre Arts Winter Season