RWCMD is once again celebrating success in the BBC Carleton Hobbs Bursary Award with the news that Will Howard (left) who is studying for an MA in Acting at RWCMD, is one of this year’s four winners, and undergraduate Katherine Pearce is a runner up.
Named after Carleton Hobbs, who was a famous radio actor during the ‘Golden Age of Radio’, the competition looks for distinctive, versatile new radio voices. The winners are selected from a pool of 88 students from the UK’s 22 accredited drama schools.
Will wins a five-month salaried contract with the BBC Radio Drama Company, which produces drama for Radio 3, Radio 4, the World Service and BBC 7.
Radio drama is an important source of employment for actors, and a popular genre with audiences of about half a million people listening to every play that is broadcast.
Since 1996, there have been an impressive nine winners and four runners up from RWCMD.
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