Professional staff and industry networks
With over 40 academic staff, together with visiting artists and lecturers, Central contains the largest grouping of drama, theatre and performance specialists in the UK.

In addition to its full-time staff, Central employs an extensive range of visiting specialists, ensuring that their students are in the enviable position of learning directly from distinguished practitioners in the field. This is one way that their learning remains fused with current industry practice.

Therefore via the tutors, and - for some MAs - placements or showcases, students will have exposure to the most influential networks in their specialist field.

The courses
Subjects include Movement Studies, Classical Acting, Puppetry and Object Theatre, Performance Practice and Research, Voice Studies, Drama and Movement Therapy, Applied Theatre, Sound Design, Lighting Design, Visual Media, Writing, Producing, and Directing.

More benefits of studying at CSSD:

• students will be part of one of the largest gatherings of specialist postgraduates in Europe
• they will be in a community which includes visiting artists and staff who are practitioners in their own fields
• they may work collaboratively with colleagues on other courses
• they will be regularly exposed to, and participate in, the creation of new work in showings and festivals of outcomes throughout the year
• they will develop and share your work in an environment that is geared to practice-based research
• they will be about 20 minutes’ tube ride from the British Library and about 25 minutes from University of London’s Senate House Library
• they will be studying in a location in the cultural centre of London with its performance venues, archives, museums, and theatres
• they will participate in Central’s annual postgraduate conference, presenting their work, in a variety of formats, to their peers