PAUL PRESCOTT Paul is Capital Centre Lecturer in English at the University of Warwick, UK. He has acted and taught Shakespeare in the United Kingdom, Japan, Australia and America. This summer he will be joining the ensemble of PERICLES. This will be his seventh production with PBSF, having played Cassius (JULIUS CAESAR), Ford (MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR), Iago (OTHELLO), Romeo (ROMEO AND JULIET), The Actor (THE WOMAN IN BLACK), and Stanton (DANGEROUS CORNER). Paul grew up in England and studied English Literature at Wadham College, Oxford University, where he won the 1997 Violet Vaughan Morgan Prize for Renaissance Drama. He subsequently earned a Masters and Doctorate in Shakespeare Studies from the Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon. Before joining PBSF as an Associate Artist he has acted in many productions. In Milton Keynes, he played Leonardo (BLOOD WEDDING), Henrik (A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC), Charles Surface (THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL), and Nicholas in the first nine-hour, full-length production of THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBY since the RSC premiere. At Oxford University he played, among other parts, Angelo (MEASURE FOR MEASURE), Lysander (A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM), Ferdinand (THE TEMPEST), Guildenstern (ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD), Charles Marlowe (SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER), and co-wrote and acted in SHAKESPEARE FOR BREAKFAST at the Edinburgh Festival 1995. For the Shakespeare Institute Players he acted Hamlet, Berowne (LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST), Proteus (THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA), Petruchio (THE TAMING OF THE SHREW), Giovanni ('TIS PITY SHE'S A WHORE) and numerous other roles in Renaissance drama revivals. When not acting, Paul teaches, lectures and writes on Shakespeare and theatre history. Before joining Warwick University, he has taught at University College, Worcester; The Shakespeare Centre, Stratford-upon-Avon; the Birmingham Conservatoire; and the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, where, he claims, he had "the great good fortune to meet Kevin Crawford." He has conducted workshops in Tokyo and Kyoto, Japan, and across the United Kingdom with Brave New Shakespeare, a company he co-founded and which aimed to provide affordable and entertaining introductions to Shakespeare to schoolchildren of all ages. He has lectured at Palm Beach Atlantic University; Trinity College, Dublin; and Nottingham Trent University; whilst also presenting papers at conferences in Miami, Minneapolis, Cambridge, Stratford-upon-Avon and Victoria. As a writer, Paul has published reviews and articles in such journals as New Theatre Quarterly, Cahiers Elisabethains, and Shakespeare Survey. Other publications include introductions to HAMLET in performance and to CORIOLANUS for the revised New Penguin Shakespeare editions and a book on RICHARD III in performance for Palgrave.