Richard Delaney FRSA
@richardddelaney.bsky.social
💼 Programme Leader | BA Acting: Contemporary & Devised | RCSSD
💡 Research & Teaching | Queer Phenomenology & Psychophysical Actor Training
🎥 Coaching | Online, In-Person, On-Set
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💡 Research & Teaching | Queer Phenomenology & Psychophysical Actor Training
🎥 Coaching | Online, In-Person, On-Set
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Fantastic to see BA Acting: Collaborative & Devised Theatre grad, Shannon Ong, reach the finals of the British Comedy Guide Stand-Up Competition! Even better knowing stand-up wasn’t on her radar until Comedy Term. Love seeing our training open unexpected creative pathways.
November 24, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Fantastic to see BA Acting: Collaborative & Devised Theatre grad, Shannon Ong, reach the finals of the British Comedy Guide Stand-Up Competition! Even better knowing stand-up wasn’t on her radar until Comedy Term. Love seeing our training open unexpected creative pathways.
Our 3rd Year CDT company moves into the theatre today for Grimm Tales Tech after weeks of graft, exploration, and bold thinking.
Devising with 19 people while reimagining old tales for today is no small ask. So proud of the process they’ve built with director Rachel Valentine Smith.
Devising with 19 people while reimagining old tales for today is no small ask. So proud of the process they’ve built with director Rachel Valentine Smith.
November 21, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Our 3rd Year CDT company moves into the theatre today for Grimm Tales Tech after weeks of graft, exploration, and bold thinking.
Devising with 19 people while reimagining old tales for today is no small ask. So proud of the process they’ve built with director Rachel Valentine Smith.
Devising with 19 people while reimagining old tales for today is no small ask. So proud of the process they’ve built with director Rachel Valentine Smith.
I’ve just learned of the passing of Andrew Jarvis, one of the Acting tutors during my training at Mountview. A true inspiration whose Shakespeare classes were legendary. So many of his insights remain in my mind, finding their way into my own teaching.
What a legacy, Andrew. Thank you. Rest well.
What a legacy, Andrew. Thank you. Rest well.
November 20, 2025 at 10:59 PM
I’ve just learned of the passing of Andrew Jarvis, one of the Acting tutors during my training at Mountview. A true inspiration whose Shakespeare classes were legendary. So many of his insights remain in my mind, finding their way into my own teaching.
What a legacy, Andrew. Thank you. Rest well.
What a legacy, Andrew. Thank you. Rest well.
The past 2 weeks have been a joy at Central, to see 3rd year Acting & MT students’ first public productions. MT’s production of Mary Stuart – thrilling confidence. Last night’s The Kitchen – extraordinary stagecraft.
Next week, CDT students open their adaptation of Grimm Tales and I can’t wait.
Next week, CDT students open their adaptation of Grimm Tales and I can’t wait.
November 20, 2025 at 10:48 PM
The past 2 weeks have been a joy at Central, to see 3rd year Acting & MT students’ first public productions. MT’s production of Mary Stuart – thrilling confidence. Last night’s The Kitchen – extraordinary stagecraft.
Next week, CDT students open their adaptation of Grimm Tales and I can’t wait.
Next week, CDT students open their adaptation of Grimm Tales and I can’t wait.
November 16, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Guillermo del Toro’s FRANKENSTEIN had a beautiful, sumptuous, epic feel. Perfect Saturday evening fare for me. The flourishes of melodrama he brought to this gothic tale made for a cracking watch. He absolutely knows how to handle excess.
@netflix.com @realgdt.bsky.social
@netflix.com @realgdt.bsky.social
November 15, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Guillermo del Toro’s FRANKENSTEIN had a beautiful, sumptuous, epic feel. Perfect Saturday evening fare for me. The flourishes of melodrama he brought to this gothic tale made for a cracking watch. He absolutely knows how to handle excess.
@netflix.com @realgdt.bsky.social
@netflix.com @realgdt.bsky.social
Loved visiting Oxford School of Drama yesterday to run workshops with their Foundation students. Such an open and curious group! Great to share a bit about what’s happening at Central and to feel that sense of collaboration between schools — more of this, please.
October 31, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Loved visiting Oxford School of Drama yesterday to run workshops with their Foundation students. Such an open and curious group! Great to share a bit about what’s happening at Central and to feel that sense of collaboration between schools — more of this, please.
Fantastic to see another BA Acting (CDT) alumna recognised! Congratulations to May Munuo, shortlisted for Best Performance: New Voice at The Speakies.
Always brilliant to see Royal Central School of Speech and Drama alumni making their mark across so many different sectors and genres.
Always brilliant to see Royal Central School of Speech and Drama alumni making their mark across so many different sectors and genres.
September 19, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Fantastic to see another BA Acting (CDT) alumna recognised! Congratulations to May Munuo, shortlisted for Best Performance: New Voice at The Speakies.
Always brilliant to see Royal Central School of Speech and Drama alumni making their mark across so many different sectors and genres.
Always brilliant to see Royal Central School of Speech and Drama alumni making their mark across so many different sectors and genres.
Collective Fringe is back Jan 2026! 🎭
Last year’s festival saw Phoebe Waller-Bridge funding & Bush Writers’ Group invites. Now they’re looking for writers & producers with plays in development.
Free space, dramaturgy, filmed recording & 70% box office.
collectiveactingstudio.co.uk/collective-f...
Last year’s festival saw Phoebe Waller-Bridge funding & Bush Writers’ Group invites. Now they’re looking for writers & producers with plays in development.
Free space, dramaturgy, filmed recording & 70% box office.
collectiveactingstudio.co.uk/collective-f...
September 4, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Collective Fringe is back Jan 2026! 🎭
Last year’s festival saw Phoebe Waller-Bridge funding & Bush Writers’ Group invites. Now they’re looking for writers & producers with plays in development.
Free space, dramaturgy, filmed recording & 70% box office.
collectiveactingstudio.co.uk/collective-f...
Last year’s festival saw Phoebe Waller-Bridge funding & Bush Writers’ Group invites. Now they’re looking for writers & producers with plays in development.
Free space, dramaturgy, filmed recording & 70% box office.
collectiveactingstudio.co.uk/collective-f...
Hiring freelance visiting tutors in drama schools can feel precarious & opaque.
I don’t want to just lean on my network — I want a fairer, more transparent process.
Freelancers: what helps you feel included, what barriers exist, & what would fairness look like?
I don’t want to just lean on my network — I want a fairer, more transparent process.
Freelancers: what helps you feel included, what barriers exist, & what would fairness look like?
September 1, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Hiring freelance visiting tutors in drama schools can feel precarious & opaque.
I don’t want to just lean on my network — I want a fairer, more transparent process.
Freelancers: what helps you feel included, what barriers exist, & what would fairness look like?
I don’t want to just lean on my network — I want a fairer, more transparent process.
Freelancers: what helps you feel included, what barriers exist, & what would fairness look like?
Artist Support Season 2025/26 is live at @newdiorama.bsky.social!
Free space, migrant solidarity grants, workshops, surgeries + more.
A bold, generous offer to theatremakers at every stage of their journey. No one does it like NDT.
Be sure to check it out here:
newdiorama.com/news/announc...
Free space, migrant solidarity grants, workshops, surgeries + more.
A bold, generous offer to theatremakers at every stage of their journey. No one does it like NDT.
Be sure to check it out here:
newdiorama.com/news/announc...
August 28, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Artist Support Season 2025/26 is live at @newdiorama.bsky.social!
Free space, migrant solidarity grants, workshops, surgeries + more.
A bold, generous offer to theatremakers at every stage of their journey. No one does it like NDT.
Be sure to check it out here:
newdiorama.com/news/announc...
Free space, migrant solidarity grants, workshops, surgeries + more.
A bold, generous offer to theatremakers at every stage of their journey. No one does it like NDT.
Be sure to check it out here:
newdiorama.com/news/announc...
As prepare to welcome in the newly revalidated BA Acting: Contemporary and Devised, we’re pausing to celebrate our alumni.
CDT grads have been part of so many inspiring projects this past year. This snapshot captures just some of it ✨ Really proud of all they’ve achieved.
CDT grads have been part of so many inspiring projects this past year. This snapshot captures just some of it ✨ Really proud of all they’ve achieved.
August 28, 2025 at 11:34 AM
As prepare to welcome in the newly revalidated BA Acting: Contemporary and Devised, we’re pausing to celebrate our alumni.
CDT grads have been part of so many inspiring projects this past year. This snapshot captures just some of it ✨ Really proud of all they’ve achieved.
CDT grads have been part of so many inspiring projects this past year. This snapshot captures just some of it ✨ Really proud of all they’ve achieved.
What a proud moment it was earlier this summer, seeing Marcus Olale from Central’s BA Acting: Collaborative & Devised Theatre make his professional debut at Shakespeare’s Globe in Merry Wives of Windsor.
Stepping into the profession before finishing training - and doing it with absolute ease!
Stepping into the profession before finishing training - and doing it with absolute ease!
August 26, 2025 at 8:26 PM
What a proud moment it was earlier this summer, seeing Marcus Olale from Central’s BA Acting: Collaborative & Devised Theatre make his professional debut at Shakespeare’s Globe in Merry Wives of Windsor.
Stepping into the profession before finishing training - and doing it with absolute ease!
Stepping into the profession before finishing training - and doing it with absolute ease!
OPAL, founded by 2023 CDT alum Anastasia Koloko, opens Black on the Square 2025 with CDT grads Dinah Muhenda (2025) & Felisha Grace (2024) amongst others!
OPAL is a Black-led company born from student collaboration at Central, celebrating multifaceted Black performance artists.
📆 12pm, 6th Sept
OPAL is a Black-led company born from student collaboration at Central, celebrating multifaceted Black performance artists.
📆 12pm, 6th Sept
August 22, 2025 at 7:45 PM
OPAL, founded by 2023 CDT alum Anastasia Koloko, opens Black on the Square 2025 with CDT grads Dinah Muhenda (2025) & Felisha Grace (2024) amongst others!
OPAL is a Black-led company born from student collaboration at Central, celebrating multifaceted Black performance artists.
📆 12pm, 6th Sept
OPAL is a Black-led company born from student collaboration at Central, celebrating multifaceted Black performance artists.
📆 12pm, 6th Sept
A joy to catch Press night of Twelfth Night at Shakespeare’s Globe this week — a joyous romp through Illyria with real dramaturgical deftness. Congrats to @robinbelfield.bsky.social, Philip J Morris, @ellenhartley.bsky.social, Ingrid MacKinnon & the whole cast/creative team!
#ShakespearesGlobe
#ShakespearesGlobe
August 21, 2025 at 7:25 PM
A joy to catch Press night of Twelfth Night at Shakespeare’s Globe this week — a joyous romp through Illyria with real dramaturgical deftness. Congrats to @robinbelfield.bsky.social, Philip J Morris, @ellenhartley.bsky.social, Ingrid MacKinnon & the whole cast/creative team!
#ShakespearesGlobe
#ShakespearesGlobe
Thrilled to see CDT alumni featured on @thestage.co.uk Debut Awards nominations list!
💫 Joseph Edwards, The Red Shoes
💫 Eva Morgan, The Glass Menagerie
💫 Samuel Brewer, Oedipus
Really chuffed for them! Always great to see alumni recognised for the work they go on to make after training.
💫 Joseph Edwards, The Red Shoes
💫 Eva Morgan, The Glass Menagerie
💫 Samuel Brewer, Oedipus
Really chuffed for them! Always great to see alumni recognised for the work they go on to make after training.
August 21, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Thrilled to see CDT alumni featured on @thestage.co.uk Debut Awards nominations list!
💫 Joseph Edwards, The Red Shoes
💫 Eva Morgan, The Glass Menagerie
💫 Samuel Brewer, Oedipus
Really chuffed for them! Always great to see alumni recognised for the work they go on to make after training.
💫 Joseph Edwards, The Red Shoes
💫 Eva Morgan, The Glass Menagerie
💫 Samuel Brewer, Oedipus
Really chuffed for them! Always great to see alumni recognised for the work they go on to make after training.
August 12, 2025 at 8:49 PM
There’s always a danger in freeing up time to think… and write. And sure enough, the space I found put these idle hands straight to work!
And do you know what? I think it might have legs!
More on this soon! 🔜
And do you know what? I think it might have legs!
February 2, 2025 at 4:42 PM
There’s always a danger in freeing up time to think… and write. And sure enough, the space I found put these idle hands straight to work!
And do you know what? I think it might have legs!
More on this soon! 🔜
And do you know what? I think it might have legs!
It’s just staggeringly painful on so many fronts. I (still) despair.
January 5, 2025 at 10:42 AM
It’s just staggeringly painful on so many fronts. I (still) despair.
Next up for BA Acting: CDT at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, the third year students will be performing their first public show at the end of November.
KATZENMUSIK by Tom Fowler
Directed by Philip Morris
Performed by CDT 3rd Years
27-30 November
Webber Douglas Studio, CSSD
KATZENMUSIK by Tom Fowler
Directed by Philip Morris
Performed by CDT 3rd Years
27-30 November
Webber Douglas Studio, CSSD
November 17, 2024 at 11:19 AM
Next up for BA Acting: CDT at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, the third year students will be performing their first public show at the end of November.
KATZENMUSIK by Tom Fowler
Directed by Philip Morris
Performed by CDT 3rd Years
27-30 November
Webber Douglas Studio, CSSD
KATZENMUSIK by Tom Fowler
Directed by Philip Morris
Performed by CDT 3rd Years
27-30 November
Webber Douglas Studio, CSSD
Thrilled to be taking over as Interim Programme Leader for BA (Hons) Acting: Collaborative and Devised Theatre, at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
It is a course that has long been close to my heart - & with revalidation approaching, it’s such an exciting time to be taking the reins!
It is a course that has long been close to my heart - & with revalidation approaching, it’s such an exciting time to be taking the reins!
November 16, 2024 at 5:35 PM
Thrilled to be taking over as Interim Programme Leader for BA (Hons) Acting: Collaborative and Devised Theatre, at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
It is a course that has long been close to my heart - & with revalidation approaching, it’s such an exciting time to be taking the reins!
It is a course that has long been close to my heart - & with revalidation approaching, it’s such an exciting time to be taking the reins!
Rick Rubin's "The Creative Act" offers bite-sized inspiration for actors striving to be artists. It teaches seeing the world creatively, finding inspiration everywhere. Perfect for anyone looking to enrich their craft and life. Not just about making art—it's about living creatively.
September 10, 2024 at 6:33 AM
Rick Rubin's "The Creative Act" offers bite-sized inspiration for actors striving to be artists. It teaches seeing the world creatively, finding inspiration everywhere. Perfect for anyone looking to enrich their craft and life. Not just about making art—it's about living creatively.
Grateful for Yik Sau Chung's review.
As a coach, creating a safe, challenging space for artists to grow is my priority. To all performers: your unique voice matters.
Let's explore how to amplify it together.
As a coach, creating a safe, challenging space for artists to grow is my priority. To all performers: your unique voice matters.
Let's explore how to amplify it together.
September 8, 2024 at 8:32 AM
Grateful for Yik Sau Chung's review.
As a coach, creating a safe, challenging space for artists to grow is my priority. To all performers: your unique voice matters.
Let's explore how to amplify it together.
As a coach, creating a safe, challenging space for artists to grow is my priority. To all performers: your unique voice matters.
Let's explore how to amplify it together.
Drama school aspirations? We've got you covered!
Our Audition Prep package offers tailored coaching, monologue work, and interview advice.
3, 5, or 10 session blocks available.
Book your free consultation: www.RichardDDelaney.com/book-online
Our Audition Prep package offers tailored coaching, monologue work, and interview advice.
3, 5, or 10 session blocks available.
Book your free consultation: www.RichardDDelaney.com/book-online
September 7, 2024 at 10:07 PM
Drama school aspirations? We've got you covered!
Our Audition Prep package offers tailored coaching, monologue work, and interview advice.
3, 5, or 10 session blocks available.
Book your free consultation: www.RichardDDelaney.com/book-online
Our Audition Prep package offers tailored coaching, monologue work, and interview advice.
3, 5, or 10 session blocks available.
Book your free consultation: www.RichardDDelaney.com/book-online