ben naylor

I write for and about theatre, in both creative and scholarly modes.

I edit or adapt extensively all the play texts I direct, including the creation or curation of four original versions of foreign-language texts (Lorca’s Blood Wedding, Gorky’s Lower Depths, Schiller’s Mary Stuart and Erdman’s The Suicide).

I’ve written several essays and papers on Shakespeare and actor training (including a contribution to The Routledge Companion to Actors’ Shakespeare), as well as full introductions to the plays I’ve directed for casts and creatives, and programme notes for productions. I’m currently working on a chapter on Shakespeare’s dramaturgy for an edited collection, and on a book.