Being Black and British - Before, During and After Drama School

Being Black and British: Before, During and After Drama School is about being Black, being British and being an actor before, during and after training.

List of contents

Foreword
Voicing Experiences Beyond Academia: Recognising Black British Actors and the Industry
How Valuable Is It To Your Work To Have Black British Actors Who Are Connected To Their Black Britishness?
Why Is A Book Like This Important To The Performance Ecology?
Prologue
0.1 Being Black In Britain
Act One: Pre-training
1.1 The Canon
1.2 School To School: A Journey
1.3 Youth theatre
1.3a Youth theatre: #BlackIs...
1.4 Attending Theatre
1.5 Toolkit
Act Two: Training
2.1 What Traditional Training Has Not Considered
2.2 Being Black In Training
2.3 Voice
2.4 Acting: Empowering Black Performers
2.5 Moving Whilst Black
2.6 Embracing Diasporic Difference: Rejecting limitations of Black characterisation in acting training
Act Three: The Profession
3.1 Making Your Own Work
3.2 What Is A Director Looking For?
3.3 My First Job
3.4 Mental Health
3.5 Dreams
Epilogue
4.1 A Parting Note
4.2 The Future

About the author

Dermot Daly is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Drama at Leeds Conservatoire and a lecturer at Leeds School of Arts, Leeds Beckett University, UK.

Product details

• Authors: Dermot Daly
• Assisted by: Dermot Daly (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 30.09.2025
• EAN: 9781032824413
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3282441-3
• No. of pages: 258
• Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Miscellaneous; Ethnic Studies, History, Sociology, Popular Culture, PERFORMING ARTS / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global), PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism, PERFORMING ARTS / Acting & Auditioning, Humanities, Performance Art, Acting techniques, Black & Asian Studies