Teaching & Corporate

Business and corporate clients have included: Inner Temple, Ground Truth, Pro Direct Sport, Bray Leino, Old Mutual, Cisco, British Gas, Barclays International, Natural England, Trade Secrets, Kings College London, Performance of A Lifetime among others, and delivering the Blueprints for Work programme for Training For Life.

I have run workshops or courses for: young lawyers at Inner Temple; students at International Schools festivals; freelance impro sessions in London, Texas and Malaysia; the ‘Make A Start’ writing course at The Cockpit Theatre and going further back, work for: the National Theatre’s Learning department; the National Youth Theatre; the National Theatre of Scotland; Scene and Heard, a brilliant children’s charity based in the Somerstown area of North London; the extraordinary Equal Voice programme under the aegis of Mike Dalton, including a term of development in an academy school in Finsbury Park, north London; two educational projects for Snap! Theatre (now Theatre Is), one in a  Secure Unit for young people; the National Student Drama Festival; High Tide Festival; The Shakespeare Schools Festival and The Primary Shakespeare Company.

I also ran the diploma and degree Improvisation courses (the latter devised by myself and Phil Whelans) for Drama Studio London in Ealing for fifteen years, and have led other workshops specifically about improvisation for: Millennium Performing Arts, Woolwich; The Philosophy Shop; The School of Night, and Showstopper! (see ‘Improvising’ page for more details), as well as assisting with many prison sessions for The London Shakespeare Workout.

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Selected teaching and course work