Mark Westbrook
Mark Westbrook is a writer, director, and acting coach based in Glasgow, Scotland.
Education[edit]
Mark was born in Leicester in 1976. He attended Danemill County Primary School, Brockington College, and Lutterworth Grammar School before going on to study Drama and Theatre at the University of Kent at Canterbury. He gained further training at the Universiteit Utrecht, University of Nottingham, and Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, where he was awarded the Avrom Greenbaum Players Award for Direction. Later, he attended the Atlantic Theater Company's Acting School in New York City, where he trained in Practical Aesthetics.
Career[edit]
Mark Westbrook is the creative director at Acting Coach Scotland, a professional acting college based in Glasgow, Scotland. He teaches The Mindset Acting Technique, a variation of Practical Aesthetics, taught at the Atlantic Theater Company. His clients include professional actors around the world and Oscar-winning animation company Framestore. Framestore.
He has been artistic director of several theatre companies, including Birds of Paradise, a professional company for actors with physical disabilities based in Scotland. His 2014 production of Blackbird for Mephisto Theatre won the Galway Theatre Festival award.
In 2007, he completed and staged his own first full-length play, 'The Emotional Life of Furniture,' at the Tron Theatre in Glasgow. He received a full scholarship from Shed Productions to retrain as a television fiction writer at Glasgow Caledonian University. He was on the writing team of Being Victor, which was produced by Shed Media at aired on MTV.
Westbrook's directing credits include the Scottish premiere of Enda Walsh's 'Misterman' and Lee Hall's 'Spoonface Steinberg.' He has also directed The Dawn by Gordon Hunt,Rescuers Speaking by Wilfred Harrison, Tandem by Michelle Bradford, Necessary Targets by Eve Ensler, and Broken Biscuits by Gordon Hunt. More recently he directed Stitching [1] by Anthony Neilson at the Tron Theatre in Glasgow, Pinter's The Dumb Waiter at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2013. In 2014, Mark made his first short film called WONDERLAND and in 2015 wrote and directed STAIN at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
References[edit]
- ↑ "Theatre review: Stitching, Glasgow". The Scotsman. 2013-04-11. Retrieved 2014-03-01.
- The Personal Website of Mark Westbrook
- A profile of Mark Westbrook as a Playwright on Doollee
- Review of Mark Westbrook's play in The Scotsman Newspaper
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