BADA's Shakespeare Program faculty is drawn from Britain's best universities while our studio classes are taught by some of the best-respected members of London's professional theatre.
During the program there are also a number of unique Question & Answer sessions and practical masterclasses. Recent guests from the London stage have included Brian Cox, Greg Hicks, Fiona Shaw and Sam West alongside academics such as Stanley Wells and journalists such as Suzannah Clapp.
Recent members of the faculty include
ACADEMIC CHAIR
Professor of Shakespeare Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London and has taught at Surrey, Oxford, Peking, Harvard, UCLA, Indiana, Northwestern and Illinois Universities. He comments regularly on Shakespeare and performance for BBC radio, The London Review of Books, and Around the Globe. Acting/directing credits include The Winter's Tale (with Sam West and Patrick Marber) and Henry VIII (Steppenwolf).
SENIOR TUTOR
Broadcaster, journalist, writer, presenter and producer of many arts, feature and documentary programs for Radios 2,3,4. His published work includes The Lion and the Dragon: British Voices from the China Coast (Hamish Hamilton 1985) and The Dilys Powell Reader (OUP 1991).
Emily is a professional actress whose credits include major roles on film in Investigating Sex, Remember Me and The Case, on TV in Peep Show, Catherine the Great, Passer By, Auf Wiedersehan Pet (BBC), Believe Nothing, Metropolis, Scarlet Pimpernel (ITV), and in the theatre in Ring Round the Moon, Someone Else's Shoes, The Rubenstein Kiss, After Mrs Rochester, and for the RSC Camino Real, Much Ado and Winter's Tale. Emily teaches regularly at the British American Drama Academy and for the education departments at the RSC and Shared Experience Theatre.
Educated at Cambridge University and University of Michigan. Nigel is an award-winning playwright writing for stage, film and television. His awards include Best Film at the Berlin Film Festival. Nigel also translates French plays into English. He teaches Playwriting and English to MA students at Royal Holloway College, Marymount and Kings College London.
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.
trained at The Bristol Old Vic Theatre for 3 years. She has over 26 years of professional acting experience in theatre and television. She was the Director of Theatre, Vasser College, New York for a year, has taught at Santa Monica College, Actors Centre and has been examiner for Trinity College London. She is an Associate Director of Actors From The London Stage and has written and produced her own one woman show; Wonderful Women which has toured around the world as well as her own devised piece ...one, two, three... based on Twelfth Night.
Boika is a specialist Shakespeare Professor, writer and lecturer, a member of the International Shakespeare Association, a Founder Member of the European Society for the Study of Shakespeare in Europe and was a Member of the Board of the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE). She has been a Visiting Lecturer at the Universities of Surrey, Middlesex University and Royal Holloway. She is currently an Adjunct Professor for the University of California's London Programme, a Research Fellow at Birbeck College and an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Notre Dame's London Programme.
is a playwright, poet and critic and senior lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of North London. She has dramatized novels such as Jane Austen's Persuasion and George Eliot's Mill on the Floss for radio, and her dramatization of The Wandering Jew was performed at the National Theatre. She also reviews and broadcasts regularly on BBC radio 3 and 4.