1st Edition
Being Black and British Before, During and After Drama School
Foreword
Voicing experiences beyond academia: Recognising Black British actors and the industry
Lynette Goddard
How valuable is it to your work to have Black British actors who are connected to their Black Britishness?
Roy Williams
Why is a book like this important to the performance ecology?
Madeleine Kludje
Prologue
0.1 Being Black in Britain
Dermot Daly
ACT ONE: Pre-training
1.1 The canon
Dermot Daly
1.2 School to school: a journey
Lorrine Fay Douglas
1.3 Youth theatre
Nuna Sandy
1.3a Youth theatre: #BlackIs...
Nuna Sandy
1.4 Attending theatre
Hannah Akhalu and Dermot Daly
1.5 Toolkit
Lauren Nicole Whitter
ACT TWO: Training
2.1 What traditional training has not considered
Josette Bushell-Mingo
2.2 Being Black in training
Elliot Broadfoot and Alicia Morgan
2.3 Voice
Claudette Williams
2.4 Acting: Empowering Black performers
Philip J Morris
2.5 Moving whilst Black
Bakani Pick-Up
2.6 Embracing diasporic difference: Rejecting limitations of Black characterisation in acting training
Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins
ACT THREE: The profession
3.1 Making your own work
Keisha Thompson
3.2 What is a director looking for?
Matthew Xia and Dermot Daly
3.3 My first job
Ryan Calais Cameron
3.4 Mental health
Olivia Elford
3.5 Dreams
Michael Buffong, Mojisola Kareem-Elufowoju and Daniel Bailey
Epilogue
4.1 A parting note
Dermot Daly
4.2 The future
Biography
Dermot Daly is a senior lecturer in the School of Drama at Leeds Conservatoire and a lecturer in the Leeds School of Arts, Leeds Beckett University, UK.
