Expert In Residence

Our current Expert in Residence is Dr David Bullen (Royal Holloway, University of London)

David is Associate Professor in Drama and Theatre at Royal Holloway, University of London as well as a theatre director, writer, and dramaturg. He has been co-artistic director of Theatre of the Gentle Furies since 2011. 

Both David’s research and practice focus on the adaptation of traditional narratives for political purposes, from feminist revisioning of Shakespeare to eco-critical explorations of Greek myth. From 2015-2021, he was Visiting Research Associate in Classics at King’s College London, working to revitalise the longstanding King’s Greek Play.

His own adaptations of plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes have been performed in the UK and the US. Recent and forthcoming books include Greek Tragedy, Education, and Theatre Practices in the UK Classics Ecology (co-edited with Dr Christine Plastow, Routledge), Shakespeare in the Theatre: Phyllida Lloyd (with Elizabeth Schafer, Arden Shakespeare), and Greek Tragedy as Twenty-First-Century British Theatre: Why, What, How (Liverpool University Press). Most recently he has completed a new edition of Don Taylor’s Antigone for Methuen Student Editions.

We look forward to David’s Special Lecture for us in October on
“Rethinking the ‘revival’; or, why making theatre with Greek tragedy today is a lot like Jurassic Park” and in the meantime, if you’d like to ask our Experts about their work or about the ancient world more generally, please fill in this form here:

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