New York University, Tisch Study Abroad: London - Shakespeare in Performance at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art / RADA

For over 10 years, Tisch London has maintained an exclusive collaboration with the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), offering actors an intensive, full-time semester to channel the expressiveness and depth of Shakespeare’s work. 

Under the direction of RADA’s Associate Director, Geoff Bullen, develop the skills necessary for the performance of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama. You spend three days a week throughout the semester within the prestigious RADA facilities, whose halls have housed such notable alumni as Sir Anthony Hopkins, Ralph Fiennes, Alan Rickman, Mark Rylance, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Phoebe Fox, Gemma Aterton, and Taron Egerton.

The emphasis of this practical program is on learning through the performance of Shakespeare: with work on sonnets, verse scenes, monologues, play projects, and a studio production; as well as classes in Voice, Physical Performance, Speech, Song, Dance, Clown and Armed Combat. The combat training you receive at RADA will provide you with a three-year certification from the British Academy of Stage and Screen Combat. 

In addition to your RADA training, spend two days a week taking classes at the University of London’s Senate House. While on the University of London campus, you have access to a myriad of resources such as lunch-time concerts, free events, the University’s Student Union and computer labs.  Housing is mere moments from campus, and London’s incredible culture is at your fingertips.