Royal Academy of Dramatic Art

As a child DS wrote her own plays. While she was studying at what would become the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art , she wrote a screenplay, Schoolgirl Rebels, under the pseudonym Charles Henry Percy

HB claims that she wrote her first poem, without help, at seven. It began: A little angel walked this earth. From then on she was always scribbling. At about nine she had an...

AJ wrote the play at the request of Bill Gaskill , the Court's new manager. She was dissatisfied with her own direction of this production, and preferred the student production she directed at RADA ...

Cicily had played major roles in school plays, and was encouraged to audition for the Academy of Dramatic Art by a well-known acting teacher, Rosina Filippi , who saw her perform in a charity show.

When acting appeared to be going nowhere, Marguerite Jervis wrote an article entitled A Day at the Academy of Dramatic Art, which she submitted in person (wearing a white muslin frock with blue sash...

MB 's first dramatic writing was for a group in the amateur theatre movement with which much of her career was linked: the Welwyn Folk Players . She directed for them, and wrote a three-act...

HB 's ambition to go on the stage caused her to write for advice to Ellen Terry , and then appeal for help to the admiring Sir Thomas Lipton , who offered to pay her...

Cicily Fairfield (later RW ) studied acting at the Academy of Dramatic Art in London.

Soon after AW arrived in London, she won a scholarship to the recently founded Tree Academy of Acting or Academy of Dramatic Art (later RADA). She was placed in an advanced acting class, but...

At Surbiton she disliked the educational regime of the headmistress, Miss Proctor, more than any she had known. She could bear the English literature, foreign languages, and religious instruction (which, as before, she converted into...

HM then briefly attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art ; however, she soon abandoned her theatrical aspirations for the study of classics.

She went on immediately from Bristol to begin studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art , where, between 1959 and 1961, she played the leading roles in many student productions.

HP decided on an acting career, and studied at the RADA (which he hated) and the Central School of Speech and Drama (which he enjoyed).

There followed brief attendance at a part-time painting course in her late teens (the result of a romantic passion for an art student), being struck dumb at an audition for RADA (the Royal Academy of...

Ella Williams (later JR ) entered Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree 's School (later renamed the Academy of Dramatic Art ) in London to study acting.