Leon Rubin is Professor and former Director of East 15 Acting School, University of Essex. He was Head of Drama at Middlesex University, Artistic Director of the Bristol Old Vic, Watford Palace Theatre and Lyric Theatre, Belfast, Assistant Director at the RSC, Associate at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin and has directed for major theatre companies internationally. He has directed 17 productions of Shakespeare (3 in languages other than English), plays by Johnson, Webster and Marlowe and was RSC assistant director on another 4. He has taught acting and directing for over 35 years.