Renowned drama school says ‘unprecedented funding challenges’ make degrees unviable from September 2025

One of the UK’s most celebrated drama schools, which counts the Oscar-winners Olivia Colman, Daniel Day-Lewis and Jeremy Irons among its alumni, is to scrap its undergraduate degrees due to a range of financial challenges.

Bristol Old Vic theatre school, founded in 1946, said its undergraduate training model was now “financially unsustainable”.