Mark Westbrook
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Mark Westbrook is a writer, director, and acting coach based in Glasgow, Scotland.
Mark was born in Leicester
in 1976 to mother Margaret and father Raymond. 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
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Mark Westbrook has been artistic director of several theatre companies, but he is currently artistic director of Spartan Productions. He has also been a university
lecturer, conservatory acting teacher, freelance director and workshop leader, demolitions worker, and banana counter. As a director, he most recently completed
and staged his own first full-length play, 'The Emotional Life of Furniture,' at the Tron Theatre in Glasgow. He recently received a full scholarship from Shed Productions
to retrain as a television fiction writer at Glasgow Caledonian University. He is represented by MacFarlance-Chard.
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.
He currently runs Acting Coach Scotland.
Biography
Mark Westbrook is a writer, director, and acting coach based in Scotland.Mark was born in Leicester
Leicester
Leicester is a city and unitary authority in the East Midlands of England, and the county town of Leicestershire. The city lies on the River Soar and at the edge of the National Forest...
in 1976 to mother Margaret and father Raymond. 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
Practical Aesthetics
Practical Aesthetics is an acting technique originally conceived by David Mamet and William H. Macy, based on the teachings of Stanislavsky, Sanford Meisner, and the Stoic Philosopher Epictetus. An in-depth description of the technique may be found in A Practical Handbook for the Actor and also...
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Mark Westbrook has been artistic director of several theatre companies, but he is currently artistic director of Spartan Productions. He has also been a university
lecturer, conservatory acting teacher, freelance director and workshop leader, demolitions worker, and banana counter. As a director, he most recently completed
and staged his own first full-length play, 'The Emotional Life of Furniture,' at the Tron Theatre in Glasgow. He recently received a full scholarship from Shed Productions
to retrain as a television fiction writer at Glasgow Caledonian University. He is represented by MacFarlance-Chard.
Westbrook's directing credits include the Scottish premiere of Enda Walsh's 'Misterman' and Lee Hall's 'Spoonface Steinberg
Spoonface Steinberg
Spoonface Steinberg is a play by British playwright Lee Hall, first broadcast as a dramatic monologue on 27 January 1997.It began life as the fourth and final play in the God's Country series of linked radio dramas broadcast in 1997 on BBC Radio 4...
.' 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.
He currently runs Acting Coach Scotland.