The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama

The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama is a specialist drama school in London, founded in 1906 by Elsie Fogerty as the Central School of Speech Training and Dramatic Art. It is a college of the University of London and received the Royal title in 2012. The campus is the Embassy Theatre site in Swiss Cottage, in the London Borough of Camden.

Training covers acting, directing, voice, applied theater, costume, scenography, puppetry, and drama and movement therapy. Graduate students work in studios and in the Embassy Theatre. Research in theater and performance sits beside conservatory training.

Enrollment is about 1,000 students, undergraduate and postgraduate, including many international students. Alumni include Laurence Olivier, Judi Dench, and Richard Attenborough.

Graduate study is known for MA and MFA pathways in performance, applied theater, and production, with studio hours, productions, and placements. The year runs in terms with rehearsal periods. Bursaries and scholarships supplement student funding. Students live in London and work against the background of the city's professional theater.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama lists 3 graduate programs in film & filmmaking, all of them master's programs.