Martha Miller Scholarship
The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
Scholarships in the name of actress Martha Miller
The award is available for applicants holding an offer on any of the BA (Hons) Acting courses who studied at a British State School.
Courses: Applicants holding an offer on any of the three, BA (Hons) Acting courses.
Eligibility: Home.
Number of Awards: 1
Individual Award Value: £5,000
Duration of Award: 3 years
Award per Year: £1,666
Application Details: Applicants interested in this fund must hold an offer of admission for a relevant course. Details on how to apply can be found in your Admissions offer letter from Central.
About Martha Miller Martha Miller’s (1929-2014) childhood passion for the theatre led to a lifetime as a working actress. She made her precocious stage debut at the age of 15, playing Elizabeth Barrett Browning at the town theatre of Fairhaven, Massachusetts, her hometown. She graduated from the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, which was the first academic institution in the United States to offer a full university degree in drama. Her classmates at Carnegie Tech included Nancy Marchand, Sada Thompson, Paul Milikin, Angela Payton—and Andy Warhol. Martha Miller was a protégée of Edith Skinner, the legendary speech professor of Carnegie Tech, and later of Julliard, who trained a wide range of actors, among them, Christopher Reeves and Robin Williams. Martha’s colleagues remember her strikingly beautiful voice and love of poetry. For several seasons after graduation, she was a managing director of the Somerset Playhouse in Somerset, Massachusetts.
She played in many Shakespeare productions, both at the Equity Library Theatre, and the American Shakespeare Festival, as Hippolyta, Desdemona, and Mistress Page, among others. Off Broadway, she appeared in Brecht’s Happy Days with Meryl Streep and Christopher Lloyd, and on Broadway in Paul Osborn’s Morning’s At Seven. She believed that the teaching of drama was an essential part of education, and worked to bring professionally performed plays into schools. She was the mother of the writer, Patricia Storace, who has established this scholarship in her honour, as well as a scholarship for her close friend and colleague, Paul Milikin.
The award is available for applicants holding an offer on any of the BA (Hons) Acting courses who studied at a British State School.