National Student Drama Festival
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The National Student Drama Festival (or NSDF) was founded in 1956 by the Sunday Times arts columnist - the festival's first artistic director - Kenneth Pearson, the Sunday Times theatre critic Harold Hobson, and NUS president Frank Copplestone. The Sunday Times Editor, H.V. Hodgson and Dr Glynne Wickham, the Winchester- and Oxford-educated great-grandson of Gladstone and head of the only Drama department in the United Kingdom in 1956 at the University of Bristol, were also early supporters.
The festival currently takes place on a yearly basis in Scarborough, Yorkshire, England. Among the theatres used to showcase the productions is the Stephen Joseph Theatre, along with a number of other venues at the Spa Centre, Scarborough College and the University of Hull Scarborough Campus.
The full NSDF story can be found in 'Raw Talent : Fifty Years of the National Student Drama Festival' (ISBN 1-84002-553-0).
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[edit] Key Figures
[edit] Festival Directors
- 1971 to 2000 - Clive Wolfe
- 2001 to 2003 - Nick Stimson
- 2004 to 2006 - Andrew Loretto
- 2007 to present - Holly Kendrick
[edit] Noises Off Editors
- 1991 to 2002 - Ian Shuttleworth
- 2003 to 2004 - Andrew Haydon and Rachel Smyth
- 2005 to present - Andrew Haydon
[edit] Notable Participants
- Khalid Abdalla
- Michael Attenborough
- Van Badham
- Simon Russell Beale
- Michael Billington
- David Farr
- Mark Gatiss
- Robert Hewison
- Harold Hobson
- Stephen Jeffreys
- Martin Jenkins
- Alex Jennings
- Daniel Kitson
- Roger Michell
- John Nettles
- Cyril Nri
- Steve Pemberton
- Ronald Pickup
- Tim Pigott-Smith
- Harold Pinter
- Lucy Prebble
- Mark Ravenhill
- Jan Sayer
- Prunella Scales
- Tim Supple
- Meera Syal
- Polly Teale
- Richard Thomas
- Glen Walford
- Timothy West
- Clive Wolfe
- Alan Yentob
