David Wood, OBE (born 21 February 1944 in Sutton, Surrey, England) is an actor and writer whom The Times called “the National Children’s Dramatist”.[1] Along with John Gould, he founded the Whirligig Theatre, a touring children’s theatre company.[2] He was educated at Chichester High School for Boys and Worcester College, Oxford. Wood has been an actor, composer, producer, director, lyric writer, magician, author, and playwright. […]
Archive | Personnel Profiles
Head of the TYA Centre - Jeremy Harrison
Jeremy Harrison was one of the country’s leading actor musicians before going on to run the Actor Musicianship programme and the recently-established MA in Theatre for Young Audiences at Rose Bruford College. He trained at RADA before gaining a BA (Hons) with the Open University and a Masters in Theatre Practices from the University of […]
Tony Graham
Tony Graham is an Honorary Fellow of the College and has taught on the MA in Theatre for Young Audiences since its inception in 2010. At that time he was Artistic Director of The Unicorn Theatre and was instrumental in bringing about the creative partnership between the theatre and the College which enabled the establishment of […]
David Wood Symposium: An Account
The David Wood Symposium was held in the Barn Theatre at Rose Bruford College in April 2011, as part of the theatre for young audiences strand within the college’s annual symposium. It was a three-hour session that comprised of a largely practical exploration of David’s approach to making theatre for children and young people, followed […]