Being Black and British

Before, During and After Drama School

Dermot Daly

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Routledge
22 September 2025

Performance art; Acting techniques; History; Popular culture; Ethnic studies

Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

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.

Written by Black writers working in and around the British performative industries, this book offers practical and theoretical tools to take into the classroom, studio, rehearsal room, mind, body and heart, focalised unapologetically through being Black in Britain. Structured across three acts, it covers themes present on the road to drama school such as youth theatre, the texts studied and early experiences in theatre spaces; drama school training with practical suggestions to encourage and embolden Black actors; and the world of the profession, ensuring that mental health, making work and a sense of what can be offered by Black actors is made clear.

This book is a call to action and a challenge to all those who teach, lecture, direct, parent, produce, cast and/or train Black performers in Britain – and those performers themselves, to listen more, ask more, feel more and be more.

Edited by: Dermot Daly
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9781032824406
ISBN 10: 1032824409
Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
Pages: 262
Publication Date: 22 September 2025
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

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.