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| Type | Performing Arts University |
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| Established | 1950 |
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| Chairman | Jennifer Sims |
| President | Ray Fearon |
| Principal | Professor Randall Whittaker |
| Students | 1,025 (2022/23)[1] |
| Undergraduates | 855 (2022/23)[1] |
| Postgraduates | 170 (2022/23)[1] |
| Location | , England 51°26′20″N0°6′24″E / 51.43889°N 0.10667°E /51.43889; 0.10667 |
| Campus | Suburban |
| Website | bruford |
Rose Bruford College (formerlyRose Bruford College of Theatre & Performance) is ahigher education institution in theLondon Borough of Bexley. Bruford has degree programmes in acting, actor musicianship, directing, theatre arts and various disciplines ofstagecraft.[2]
Its undergraduate and postgraduate qualifications and programmes were validated by theUniversity of Manchester,[3][4] until it received taught degree awarding powers in 2017.[5]
In 1950 Rose Elizabeth Bruford established The Rose Bruford Training College of Speech and Drama, with the help ofpoet laureateJohn Masefield and actorsLaurence Olivier andPeggy Ashcroft, who formed part of the Board of Governors.[citation needed] Rose Bruford "pioneered the first acting degree in 1976".[3]
The Kent Education Committee offered to lease to herLamorbey House, an 18th-century,Grade II listedmanor house in theLamorbey district ofSidcup, for £5 per year (equivalent to £216 in 2023). Grants helped sustain the college in its early years, and it eventually became profitable.[6][7]
The campus has since been expanded. Construction of several new buildings was completed in 2002.[6] The college's research facilities and archives include theStanislavski Centre and the Clive Barker Library.[8] Members or former members of its faculty serve as editors and/or on the editorial boards of such performing-arts journals asNew Theatre Quarterly andPerformance Prompt.[9]
In 2014,The Stage reported that 91.6% of Rose Bruford students were from state schools.[10] In the same year, Rose Bruford College scored an overall satisfaction rating of 90% in theNational Student Survey.[11]
When theAcademy of Live and Recorded Arts closed in April 2022, Rose Bruford offering a place to all ALRA's students.[12]
College alumnusRay Fearon followed as the new President of the College in November 2024.Bernardine Evaristo, the 2019Booker Prize winner, succeededRichard Eyre as college president in 2021.[13] Other alumni includeHayley Squires,[14]Gary Oldman,Mathew Baynton,Tom Baker,Tom Hopper,Graham Hamilton,Edward Peel,Christopher Pizzey,Lake Bell,Rosalie Craig,Giovanna Fletcher,Hannah Walters,Stephen Graham,Nick Darke,Sam Palladio,Jessica Gunning,Kerry Godliman,Mem Fox, andMarc Duret.
Our undergraduate and post-graduate programmes are validated by theUniversity of Manchester (the Foundation Degree in Organising Live Arts is validated byLondon Metropolitan University) and, where appropriate, courses are accredited by theNational Council of Drama Training [sic] (NCDT).
History was made in September 2018 when the first ever Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance degrees were awarded at a graduation ceremony in The Rose Theatre, Sidcup, following the granting of Taught Degree Awarding Powers by Her Majesty's Privy Council in 2017.
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