Bushell-Mingo will be the first person of African descent in the role, as well as the first woman to be appointed to the role since 1942 and the third woman appointed principal in the School’s history.
Her 40-year career has seen Bushell-Mingo perform with the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre and the Manchester Royal Exchange, and she is currently the head of Acting at Stockholm University of the Arts, Sweden.
She was the founding artistic director of PUSH, a Black-led theatre festival with the Young Vic Theatre, for which she was awarded an OBE for services to the arts, a Judy Cramer Award for Innovation, and the Southbank Cultural Diversity Award.
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