Simon Shepherd
Simon Shepherd is Deputy Principal (academic) at Central School of Speech & Drama and Director of Programmes, with responsibility for all learning and teaching, research, outreach and technical support. Previously he was Professor of Drama at Goldsmiths, University of London, and before that Professor of Drama at the University of Nottingham. His current research project is concerned with the craft of directing (for a Reader for Palgrave) and his interest in bodies and theatre is now being extended into an exploration of the relationship between (staged) body and national identity. His most recent publications include: 2010 associate editor with Simon Donger, and ORLAN, ORLAN: A Hybrid Body of Artworks London: Routledge; 2010 ‘The Matter of ORLAN’ in ORLAN: A Hybrid Body of Artworks London: Routledge; 2010 with Mick Wallis, Studying Plays (third edition) London: Bloomsbury
