Shaun Woodward is chair of LAMDA. He was chair of the school’s successful £28 million rebuilding Capital Campaign and was formerly secretary of state for Northern Ireland and the minister for creative industries in the governments of Gordon Brown and Tony Blair
Drama schools have been struggling financially for some time, but as Bristol Old Vic becomes the latest to make cuts, the severity of this issue is becoming hard to ignore, says outgoing LAMDA chair Shaun Woodward