Paul Allain

About

Paul Allain is Professor of Theatre and Performance and Dean of the Graduate and Researcher College at the University of Kent, Canterbury. He has published extensively on actor training and contemporary performance processes as both author and editor in books, DVDs and articles, with a particular focus on contemporary Polish theatre. From 2006-9 he led the AHRC-funded British Grotowski Project, which culminated in an international conference and series of books, and his being awarded a medal by the Polish government recognising his services to Polish culture. In 2014 he co-directed Marlowe’s Massacre at Paris which was performed in Canterbury Cathedral’s crypt. His most recent project, ‘Physical Actor training – an online A-Z’, funded by The Leverhulme Trust, involved making 66 films as part of a digital resource housed on Methuen Drama Bloomsbury’s Drama Online.