The MIO faculty is comprised of distinguished actors and directors as well as leading teachers from Britain's foremost drama schools.
Recent faculty members include
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Was Artistic Director of The Royal Lyceum Theatre Company, Edinburgh and TAG Theatre Company at the Citizens, Glasgow. Numerous Shakespeare productions in Britain, America and Chile, plus modern classics including Pinter, Beckett, Chekhov, Kane, Miller and Williams. His adaptation of Orwell's Animal Farm is published by Nick Hern Books. Dean of BADA since 1996. More info at http://www.ian-wooldridge.com/.
Trained with Desmond Jones, Philippe Gaulier and Monika Pagneux and is a key member of Theatre de Complicité with whom he has acted extensively. He has worked with Toucan Theatre Company, directed plays for the Hot House Theatre and appeared many times on television.
Dean of the Yale School of Drama and Artistic Director of the Yale Repertory Theatre. Formerly Artistic Director of Great Lakes Theatre Festival, Associate Producing Director of The Acting Company and Managing Director of Cornerstone Theatre Company. He directs at Yale and many of the leading Shakespeare Festivals.
Actress of the Year (2001) for Further than the Furthest Thing. She has starred in many productions for the National Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Chichester Festival and at the Old Vic.
Numerous productions at the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre, the Tricycle Theatre and Southampton Rep and starred on Broadway in The Homecoming. Film and TV work includes Pride and Prejudice, two series of Wycliffe and A Fairytale: A True Story.
Has worked as a voice and dialect coach both on and off-Broadway, in regional theatre and worldwide, and at many universities in the States and Europe. Linda is currently Head of Voice and Speech at Northwestern University and is the author of Voice for Performance published by Applause Books.
has written and directed extensively for the BBC and PBS, including Edward VII, Lillie, Rumpole of the Bailey, the Ruth Rendell mysteries, Sherlock Holmes, Coronation Street, Eastenders, three Shakespeare plays for BBC TV and, recently, Cause Celebre with Helen Mirren.
Member of the Shakespeare Theatre, Washington DC for over 20 years starring in, amongst others, Much Ado About Nothing, Henry IV Parts I & II, Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and The Rivals. He won the Helen Hayes Award for Marquis de Sade and has toured widely with his one man show.
is head of Movement at RADA and prior to this taught at Guildhall School of Music and Drama and LAMDA. Jackie is Master of Movement for the Globe Theatre and has supervised movement for the National Theatre, the Open Air theatre in Regents Park and the BBC.
runs his own studio to train actors and singers for theatre, TV and film.
was head of Voice at the RSC (1990-2003). He has taught at Stella Adler Studio and the Guthrie Theatre Minnesota.
directs and teaches Voice on the graduate acting program at UCLA. He has also worked extensively in theatre throughout America.
Chairman of the Graduate Acting Program at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. He has directed at the National, in the West End, in Australia and South Africa and across the U.S. at the Public Theater, the New York Shakespeare Festival, ACT, Berkeley Rep, and La Jolla Playhouse and has won the Obie Award & LA Drama Critics Dramalogue Award. Artistic director of London's Actors Centre from 1998 to 2002 and former Director of the Central School of Speech and Drama.
Has performed for the RSC, with Theatre de Complicite and in Deborah Warner's Medea (Abbey Theatre, Dublin and in the West End) and Julius Caesar (Barbican) and has toured England, Ireland, Mexico, the US and the Indian sub-continent for the RSC.