Marie Critchley

Marie Critchley

The Arden School of Theatre, also known as The Arden, is a Drama school and is part of the Performing Arts faculty at UCEN Manchester located in Manchester, England. The Arden School of Theatre was founded jointly by the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester and South Manchester College in 1991 by the Senior Curriculum Manager Robert S Ely, to provide vocational degree level theatrical education in the North of England, one of the first to provide theatrical degrees in the United Kingdom. The School wanted to expand to provide other theatrical professions, but today only provides courses for actors and musical theatre performers. The Arden name came from the original City College Arden Campus where the drama school was based between 1991 and 2004, in Northenden, South Manchester. It has never been a member of the Conference of Drama Schools. The school now provides four BA (Hons) programmes, validated by Sheffield Hallam University in Acting for Live and Recorded Media (Marie Mair), Dance and Performance (Belinda Grantham), Musical Theatre (Andrew Stephenson), and Theatre and Performance (Wayne Steven Jackson).

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