Sir Ian McKellen announces the naming of RWCMD’s David Rowe-Beddoe Shakespeare Prize
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Making a difference through performance: creating actors as artists
Our drama courses focus on training actors who are robust, ethically-minded artists, with strong individual voices.
Award-winning, challenging stage debuts
Reflecting the drama training that empowers students to leave College industry-ready and to embrace challenging and difficult drama, Kasper Hilton-Hille made his debut straight after graduating this year.
He starred opposite Niamh Cusack in Polly Stenham’s devastating, dark and comically tragic play ‘That Face’ about mental illness and addiction.
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His performance was called ‘a revelation and heartbreaking’ by the Guardian and has gained him an Offie nomination for best newcomer. The winner will be announced in February 2024.
A Royal Welsh College performance
Winning a Stage Debut award for her ‘visceral, courageous performance’ in ‘I, Joan’, Isobel Thom, who graduated in 2022, as Joan gives voice to a story of queerness and rebellion in this ground-breaking and challenging story.
Bringing the RWCMD acting story full circle, she was presented with her award by fellow acting grad Callum Scott Howells, who made his award-winning television debut with Channel 4’s controversial and provocative Aids drama 'It's a Sin', which he filmed while still at College.
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Fellow grad Rakie Ayola was moved to share her thoughts on instagram when she saw Isobel as Joan: ‘Izzy's physical and linguistic ease, breezy charm, magnetic effervescence and emotional courage led me to lean forward and think, 'That's a Royal Welsh College performance. That's got to be a Royal Welsh College performance.'
Celebrating a lifetime of performance and making a difference
Rakie, meanwhile, has been busy celebrating her own impressive career as one of the finest Welsh actors and passionate and long-standing advocates for widening diversity and representation of talent both on and off screen over the last three decades.
Awarding her one of BAFTA Cymru’s highest honours, the Siân Phillips Award in recognition of her significant contribution to film and television, BAFTA described Rakie as ‘an incredible talent who inspires, drives, and enriches the industry here in Wales and beyond.’
She also won a BAFTA Cymru award for best actress.
We are Lady Parts...
With her love of finding new ways to tell stories, actor and singer-songwriter Anjana Vasan, has been blazing a trail on stage and screen since she graduated in 2012. Her role in Channel 4’s irreverent and anarchic black comedy ‘We are Lady Parts,’ about an all-female Muslim punk band refusing to conform, won her a Royal Television Society award for Best Comedy Performance, as well as a BAFTA nomination.
She describes the series as ‘embracing your weirdness to make art on your own terms’.
In 2019 Anjana was nominated for an Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress for her performance as Niru (Nora in the original) in the Lyric Hammersmith’s bold recontextualisation of ‘A Doll’s House’.
Adapted by Tanika Gupta to an Indian setting, this new production opened the door to exploring the additional dynamic of race as well as power and patriarchy.
Anjana is now on the cover of the Bloomsbury 2023 edition of the play.
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Bringing us right up to date, as well as an Olivier award for Best Supporting Actress - the first Singaporean to win the award - Anjana has just won a joint Evening Standard Award, for her role as Stella in ‘A Streetcar named Desire’ alongside Paul Mescal, and Patsy Ferran, with whom she shares the award.
Making their mark on the screen...
And of course, it’s not just on the stage that you can see our grads. From Netflix to the big screen, they’re hard to miss...
Recent grads on the screen include Ayo Adegun’s TV debut as one of the leads in the John Wick sequel, ‘The Continental’, and his film debut with fellow grade Jerome Lance, in ‘The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes’.
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2022 grad Tom Victor was one of the leads in the hit indie film, ‘Consent’ and also appeared in the TV miniseries ‘Mary and George’ with Julianne Moore. Fellow ‘22 alumni Tegan Farrelly has been in Netflix’s ‘The Diplomat’,
2023’s Lauren Morais just finishing shooting ‘The Red Night’ for ITV and look out for Campbell Wallace as Ringo Starr in ‘The Midas Man’ about Brian Epstein, which he filmed while still at College.
