About
We were founded in 1950 by Rose Bruford, Edith Scorer, and Mary Henniker-Heaton. Rose Bruford, a trained actress and verse and speech teacher at the Royal Academy of Music, wanted to do something the existing higher education providers were not set up for: unify theatre practice and drama education into one curriculum, training actors who could teach and teachers who could act. Together with Scorer, a distinguished opera singer who had performed across European capitals, and Henniker-Heaton, who became the College’s first Registrar, she built a College on her own terms. That founding instinct, to make excellent creative education work differently and for a wider range of disciplines, still shapes what we do. (Source: https://www.bruford.ac.uk/about-us/)