University of London

Faculty Member, Central School of Speech and Drama

Lecturer in Classical and Contemporary Acting

About

Studied at Durham University, Magdalen College Oxford, and Drama Centre London.

He has taught acting at the Shakespeare Centre, the Method Studio, LAMDA, ASAD, Cambridge University, Queen Mary and Westfield, Kingston University, Birkbeck College, at Berlin’s Forum fur Filmschauspiel, and in the US and Greece; he also currently teaches for Florida State University’s London Theater Program.

He has led workshops and readings at Shakespeare's Globe, the Old Vic, Young Vic, King’s Head, Gatehouse, and the Salon des Arts; and was a founder member of the Young Vic Genesis programme and the Caird Company.

In 2003 he was a guest speaker at the International Marlowe Conference at Cambridge University, speaking on Marlovian performance and ritual theatre paradigms. He has written a chapter on Greg Hicks for The Routledge Companion to Actors' Shakespeare (tbp 2011, Ed. John Russell Brown), and is currently working on John Bulwer's gestural codifications for the Gesture Lab at Shakespeare's Globe.


Performances and Productions
Directing includes: Julius Caesar (Menier Chocolate Factory), Tamburlaine the Great (Rose Theatre, Southwark), Macbeth (Cambridge Arts Theatre), Hamlet (Clifford’s Tower, York), Dr Faustus, The Revenger’s Tragedy, ‘Tis Pity She’s A Whore, A Listener and the Playwright, The Cadaques Charleston, Arcadia, The White Devil, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, and Wish You Were Here. At CSSD: Henry IV, The Broken Heart, Britannicus, The Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing, The Winter's Tale, Antony and Cleopatra. Shadowed Sir Peter Hall on Colin Teevan’s adaptation of Euripides’ Bacchai at the National Theatre, and assisted on Macbeth (Albery Theatre and tour). Acting includes: Control (Momentum Pictures).


Current Research Interests
Gesture on the Renaissance stage and modern movement psychology; contemporary acting techniques in classical theatre.