Mark Westbrook

Mark Westbrook is a writer, director, and acting coach based in Glasgow, Scotland.

Biography

Mark Westbrook is a writer, director, and acting coach based in 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.

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.

References

• 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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