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, ASAD, Cambridge University, Queen Mary and Westfield, 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 and the Shakespeare Summer School at LAMDA.
He has led workshops and readings at 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. Currently, he is working on a chapter for Routledge's Actors' Shakespeare (tbp 2010, Ed. John Russell Brown), and a paper on Shakespeare in the Conservatoire for BSA 2009.
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. 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 (especially the codifications of John Bulwer) and modern movement psychology; contemporary acting techniques in classical theatre (especially Method-based approaches to Shakespeare).
