A Beginner’s Guide to Directing Theatre

Robert Marsden is an experienced theatre director and theatre academic, currently Head of the Media and Performance Department at Staffordshire University, UK. As a director, he has worked across subsidised and commercial sectors since 1999 and has taught directing, acting and theatre making in universities and drama schools since 2001. He has published articles in journals for Palgrave, as well as in trade papers from The Stage to Drama and Theatre magazine amongst others, and is the author of Inside the Rehearsal Room (2022).