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...

GBS started school at seven. During her first term she fell into disgrace for running up a large bill for pencils, erasers, etc., from a stationers' shop where her parents had an account: she had...

After a spell earning her own living, NS enrolled at the LondonAcademy of Dramatic Art (later RADA).

Her father, who wanted her to act, chose her as one of the students at the Academy (later Royal Academy) of Dramatic Art , which he founded in 1904—the same year in which she began...

In 1911 Bernard Shaw , who was an opera critic as well as a playwright, and a Tree family friend (his donations were crucial to the success of Royal Academy of Dramatic Art ), wrote...

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

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...

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...

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

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...