Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art | |
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founding | 1904 |
Sponsorship | state |
place | London , UK |
president | Kenneth Branagh |
Website | www.rada.ac.uk |
The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art ( RADA ) is a traditional London drama school that has trained many well-known British actors .
history
The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) was founded in 1904 by the English actor and theater manager Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree .
Its executive directors have included Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson , Sir Arthur Wing Pinero , Sir James Barrie, WS Gilbert, Irene Vanbrugh, and George Bernard Shaw over time . Shaw bequeathed a third of his licenses to the drama school in 1950 . For example, the school benefits from the license for the film My Fair Lady (1964). Since 2001 she has been a founding member of the Conservatoire for Dance & Drama.
RADA is a challenging acting school in Great Britain . It only accepts 32 new students for acting training each year and a maximum of four directing students (until 2014). RADA does not require a high school diploma for acting training and only allocates these places on the basis of a successful audition. The Academy is administered by King's College London .
Lord Richard Attenborough was the school's president from 2004 until his death in August 2014 . He was followed by actor Kenneth Branagh in 2015 . Edward Kemp is currently the headmaster of RADA.
Admission procedure
The BA Acting course ( Acting Bachelor) is a program of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art with a high reputation . Every year around three to four thousand people apply for 32 to 40 available places. The admission procedure consists of four sections:
- Preliminary Audition (preselection)
- Recall Audition (second preselection)
- Short workshop (short evening workshop)
- Workshop Day
The admission process begins in October of the previous year (the deadline is March 1st of the following year). It is only possible to start studies in the winter semester.
Well-known graduates (selection )
- Robert Addie
- Mark Addy
- Ebrahim Alkazi
- Gemma Arterton
- Richard Attenborough
- David Bamber
- Lynsey Baxter
- Sean Bean
- Kenneth Branagh
- Anita Briem
- Andrew Buchan
- Jessie Buckley
- Alfred Burke
- Tom Burke
- Ken Campbell
- Jessica Capshaw
- Caroline Catz
- Nicholas Clay
- Joan Collins
- Anne Crawford
- Ben Cross
- Jon Cryer
- Timothy Dalton
- David Dawson
- Peter Dinklage
- James Dreyfus
- Faye Dunaway
- Taron Egerton
- Cynthia Erivo
- Trevor Eve
- OT Fagbenle
- Mark Feuerstein
- Ralph Fiennes
- Frank Finlay
- Albert Finney
- Lillian Fontaine
- Laurence Fox
- Phoebe Fox
- Talitha Getty
- John Gielgud
- Peter Gilmore
- Iain Glen
- Ioan Gruffudd
- Maggie Gyllenhaal
- Sheila Hancock
- Richard Harris
- Rosemary Harris
- Olivia de Havilland
- Sally Hawkins
- Tom Hiddleston
- Ciarán Hinds
- Ian Holm
- Edward Hogg
- Anthony Hopkins
- Trevor Howard
- Gerran Howell
- John Hurt
- Jonathan Hyde
- Allison Janney
- Marianne Jean-Baptiste
- Ursula Jeans
- Richard Johnson
- Katherine Kelly
- Roy Kinnear
- Charles Laughton
- Mike Leigh
- Vivien Leigh
- Anton Lesser
- Andrew Lincoln
- Robert Lindsay
- Richard Lintern
- Larry Linville
- Joan Littlewood
- Matthew Macfadyen
- Ashley Madekwe
- Stephen Manganese
- Stefanie Martini
- Daniel Mays
- Gugu Mbatha-Raw
- Richard McCabe
- David McCallum
- Geraldine McEwan
- Janet McTeer
- Tobias Menzies
- Tom Mison
- Donald Moffat
- Roger Moore
- Pauline Moran
- Michael Moriarty
- Robert Morley
- George Murcell
- Alan Napier
- Dean Norris
- Sophie Okonedo
- Gary Oldman
- Peter O'Toole
- Clive Owen
- Joanna Page
- Harold Pinter
- Eline Powell
- Margaret Qualley
- Jessica Raine
- Claude Rains
- Molly Rankin
- Adrian Rawlins
- Robert Reed
- Matthew Rhys
- John Rhys-Davies
- Alan Rickman
- Diana Rigg
- Sam Riley
- Andrea Riseborough
- Ukweli Roach
- Patricia Roc
- Angela Roy
- Mark Rylance
- Benjamin Sadler
- Liev Schreiber
- Fiona Shaw
- Robert Shaw
- Sebastian Shaw
- Michael Sheen
- Edward de Souza
- John Steiner
- Jeremy Strong
- Imogen Stubbs
- Donald Sutherland
- Sylvia Syms
- Abigail Thaw
- John Thaw
- Harry Treadaway
- Indira Varma
- Selma Vaz Dias
- Sara Vickers
- Phoebe Waller-Bridge
- David Warbeck
- Tom Wilkinson
- Ben Whishaw
- Lydia Wilson
- Aimee Lou Wood
- Albie Woodington
- Edward Woodward
- Owain Yeoman
- Susannah York
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ "Sir Kenneth Branagh made president of RADA to upstage the posh brigade" ; Article in the Daily Telegraph
Coordinates: 51 ° 31 '18 " N , 0 ° 7' 53" W.