Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance is London's International Drama School. Students from over 40 different countries study with us on our15 different vocational and professional degree courses, producing over 75 separate productions a year.
The College is located in Lamorbey Park, Southeast London, in beautiful, green grounds just 30 minutes by train from Trafalgar Square and the heart of London's West End. The campus clusters around the Grade II listed Lamorbey House with modern, purpose-built facilities, including a 330-seat theatre-in-the-round, a 100-seat flexible Barn theatre, two black box studio theatres, spacious rehearsal rooms, recording studios, technical laboratories, design and production workshops, a unique drama library and well-equipped study areas. In 2015 the College opened Christopher Court, a 168 en-suite room accommodation facility a short walk from campus.
Proud of its history of innovation that saw Rose Bruford introducing the first university-level BA degree in Acting and the first BA in Lighting Design in the 1970s, Rose Bruford College continues to push the boundaries of training in performance and technical theatre, making it one of the world's leading drama conservatoires and one of the UK's largest in terms of student numbers and the variety of its professional training options. Preparing its acting graduates for a career on stage and screen and design. Management and technical graduates for behind the scenes across the wider entertainment industries--with six separate acting and performance options at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, the broadest portfolio of technical theatre and management undergraduate programs, and two online undergraduate degrees--we train some of the best talents making theatre today around the world.
The College and its teaching staff foster our students' imagination, talents, and creativity, preparing them for rewarding and satisfying careers in challenging, exciting and well-paying industries. Our job is to train but also to help find employment for all our graduates. In January 2017, the College was granted Taught Degree Awarding Powers by her Majesty's Privy Council. This means that students joining the College from September 2017 onwards will be studying for a Rose Bruford College degree.
Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance's mission is to contribute to, value, and shape the theatre and performance arts and industries of our times through education, training, research, and industry engagement. Placing students at the center of our work, the College aims to provide the highest quality undergraduate and postgraduate degree-level and continuing professional education and training in all aspects of theatre and performance. We equip graduates with the attitudes, skills, and knowledge to become leaders in their field, shaping the future of the theatre, entertainment, and allied arts and industries.
We aim to support and value our students and staff in their ambitions and aspirations to be independent learners and professional teachers and maintain the College's reputation as a world-class, practice-based, professional conservatoire. We aim to create and value new insights in theatre and performance through distinctive approaches to research into and through practice. We aim to continually develop, value, and lead our sector through education and industry-focused training. We will offer our graduates the best possible preparation for successful and satisfying careers as innovative and enterprising practitioners.
Rose Bruford College values and defends the principle of freedom of thought, practice, and expression within its academic and artistic community, while recognizing its responsibilities in promoting tolerance, mutual respect, diversity, and cultural understanding. Material is chosen for study and performance based on its value in examining a broad range of practices and ideas. From time to time, such study material may challenge students' perspectives and values. The College expects students to engage with chosen material without censorship and encourages a spirit of openness, recognition of creative expression, and intellectual debate. At the same time, it seeks to ensure that the choice, interpretation, and treatment of such material is not gratuitous, exploitative, or illegal.
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