Roland Metcalf
School of Arts and Media
Current positions
Visiting Fellow in Performance
BIOGRAPHY
Born King’s Lynn, June 1939.
Educated King Edward VII School, King’s Lynn; Edinburgh University; Open University; Lancaster University.
Theatre work 1964-69, Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham, Lighting Designer, Production Manager and Technical Director, Director of Theatre in Education.
Commissioned adaptations: Pinocchio, The Wizard of Oz.
New Opera Company: Lighting Design for World Premieres of Gordon Crosse’s Purgatory and Phyllis Tate’s What d’ye call it? (1966).
Other occasional freelance work.
- Performance in context
- Critical and Textual Studies
- Performance Studies
- Shakespeare in Performance
- Direction.
- Theatre Semiotics
- The changing organization of British Theatre
Qualifications
- B.A.(Hons)
- M.Phil
- Associate of the institute of Education, University of London