Encountering Ensemble is the first book to attempt to define and analyse the nature of ensemble theatre with case studies and contributions from companies and practitioners around the globe.

�ber die Autorinnen und Autoren

John Britton is Artistic Director of DUENDE, an international performance group dedicated to ensemble-based, interdisciplinary new work. Between 2004 and 2011 he was Senior Lecturer at the University of Huddersfield, where for a number of years he ran an innovative practice-based MA in Ensemble Physical Theatre. He still retains a research affiliation to the University of Huddersfield and is one of the only academic-pracitioners in the UK with a specific research focus and practice in the training and directing of ensemble theatre. Britton has a continuing international practice as a trainer and director of ensembles. Recent workshops have taken place in Mexico, Slovenia, France, Germany, Greece, Sweden, China, Portugal, Australia as well as the UK. Britton has extensive experience as a director, performer and writer of physical, interdisciplinary and text-based work. In 2013 he will teach, perform and direct in India for two months , as well as continuing to run DUENDE's programme of workshops and intensive, rural, residential training events.

David Barnett is Professor of Theatre at the University of York, UK. He has published monographs on Heiner M�ller (1998) and Rainer Werner Fassbinder (2005, paperback 2009), and co-edited a volume and edited a special issue of Contemporary Theatre Review on contemporary German theatre. His history of
the Berliner Ensemble was published in 2015, and he edited the anthology of Bertolt Brecht's Berliner Ensemble Adaptations (Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2014).

Michael Boyd (1955-2023) was a British theatre director. He trained at the Malaya Bronnaya Theatre in Moscow and worked at a number of significant theatres in the United Kingdom, including The Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, The Sheffield Crucible and The Tron (Glasgow) before becoming Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2003 - a position he held until 2012.

Bryan Brown is a theatre artist with ARTEL as well as a producer and pedagogue with Art Via Corpora Performance Research and Development House, both based in Hollywood, California. His research centers on psychophysical training, ensemble creation and the theatre laboratory.

Frank Camilleri is Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Malta and Artistic Director of Icarus Performance Project (www.icarusproject.info). His publications on performer training, theatre as a laboratory, and practice as research reflect the theatre work he has been developing since 1989. He is also a long-distance runner.

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