Drama Training
New Drama Training Programme for 15-19-year olds at Royal
The Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama is launching the Young Actors Studio (YAS), a new element to the College’s curriculum, dedicated to providing top-quality training for young actors before they go on to higher education.
‘We’re very excited about this new venture, which offers conservatoire-style acting training here at the Royal Welsh College where we have produced some of the finest young stage, television and film actors in Britain today,’ says Vice Principal (Events and Enterprises), David Jackson. ‘We’re extremely proud of our Junior Music Department and I’m confident that the Young Actors Studio will be just as successful.’
This unique, non-exam based course, starting on Sundays in September 2008, will cover all the essential areas required to be a successful actor, developing individual performance skills to a very high level. Students will work in small workshop-style groups concentrating on areas such as acting, movement, singing, combat and voice (oratory). Bursaries, funded by the University of Glamorgan, are available for the course.
Based on the success of the Royal Welsh College’s Junior Music and Access Studies department which has been providing top-level music tuition to children, young people and adults for over ten years, YAS promises to be a stimulating and rapidly expanding part of the Royal Welsh College.
As the National Conservatoire for Wales, the College is known for providing the highest level of conservatoire training in Wales, and is also considered one of the leading providers in the UK. Young Actors Studio members will benefit from all the advantages a leading conservatoire has to offer. Its students will have access to the College’s highly specialist facilities and tuition will be delivered by a team of distinguished and experienced professional tutors who will also be on hand to offer careers guidance.
The Royal Welsh College ‘?really moulded me into a professional.’
- Kimberley Nixon (Acting 2007), who has already starred in BBC’s Cranford with Dame Judy Dench and is set to appear in several forthcoming films including Wild Child and Easy Virtue with Colin Firth
The College has a reputation for ensuring its students enjoy a very friendly, supportive and safe environment in which to develop their performance skills, meet like-minded people and build up the confidence to explore their talents to the full.
For more details or to register for an information pack go here or email yas@rwcmd.ac.uk / phone 029 2039 1394
