Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

My current areas of research are: London and New York Stages 1800 – 1850 with a particular focus on performance and acting styles of Thomas Abthorpe Cooper, George Frederick Cooke, Edmund Kean, Junius Brutus Booth, Mary Ann Duff, Charlotte Cushman, Edwin Forrest and William Charles Macready. Improvisation: Relating theory and practice in the creation of…

In the last years I have directed a number of acting workshops – Shakespeare, Sheridan, Dickens (adaptation), Shaw and Miller acting workshops at Regent University, Virginia Beach, VA. At the end of 2008 and through to the end of January 2009 I shall return to the university to direct a cast of MFA students in…