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Shakespeare in New York
Join us in New York City for a 5-day advanced Shakespeare short course. Refine your craft, deepen your connection to Shakespeare's text, and elevate your performance skills with RADA.
Improvisation
Explore the cornerstones of performance improvisation, from letting go of limiting beliefs to unleashing your creativity to bring stories to life.
Acting Technique Workout - New York
Refine your acting craft with Acting Technique Workout - New York. Strengthen core performance skills, build confidence and explore practical techniques through expert-led training from RADA.
RADA and Talawa Theatre Company launch Mona Hammond Annual Lecture series
RADA and Talawa Theatre Company launch a new annual lecture series asking a simple but urgent question: what must theatre become now and in the future?
We are excited to launch the Mona Hammond Annual Lecture series with David Harewood OBE: internationally acclaimed actor, President of RADA and one of the theatre industry's most thoughtful and influential voices.
The series is inspired by the life and legacy of Mona Hammond OBE (1931-2022), actor, RADA graduate and co-founder of Talawa Theatre Company. Throughout her career, Mona not only broke new ground on stage and screen, but helped create opportunities for others, expanding who could see themselves represented in British theatre and who could thrive within it.
RADA and the University of Warwick launch research into leadership performance
RADA and the University of Warwick have launched a fully funded PhD studentship to investigate how actor training shapes leadership, organisational culture and professional impact in mainstream industry.
The collaborative research project, Acting on Organisations: How dramatic pedagogies shape work, culture and performance, will start in autumn 2026.
The Stage Debut Awards shortlist 2026
RADA graduate Tommaso Giacomin (MA Theatre Lab, 2022) has been nominated for Best Director at The Stage Debut Awards, joining a shortlist that also includes fellow RADA graduate Ralph Fiennes, recognised for his directorial debut of As You Like It at Theatre Royal Bath.
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Building on more than a century of creative achievement, RADA's vocational training for actors, stage managers, designers and technical stage craft specialists brings together a diverse community united by a shared passion for theatre-making and storytelling.