Authors

Kathryn Wolfe

Kathryn Wolfe had a twenty-five-year career as a TV director on top BBC and ITV shows. Since 2003 she has taught hundreds of aspiring presenters and launched countless careers with her training company Pukka Presenting. She was Senior Lecturer in Media Performance and Course Leader in TV Production at the University of Bedfordshire from 2006 to 2018. Kathryn is a presenting coach, video presenter, narrator and newsreader.

So You Want To Be A TV Presenter?

Alexandra Wood

Alexandra Wood is a UK playwright whose plays include: an adaptation of Kate Summerscale's The Suspicions of Mr Whicher (Watermill Theatre, 2023); The Tyler Sisters (Hampstead Theatre, 2019); The Human Ear (Paines Plough, 2015); Ages (Old Vic New Voices); an English version of Manfred Karge's Man to Man (Wales Millennium Centre); Merit (Theatre Royal Plymouth, 2015); The Initiate (Paines Plough, 2014; winner of Scotsman Fringe First); an adaptation of Jung Chang's Wild Swans (ART/Young Vic); The Empty Quarter (Hampstead Theatre, 2013); The Centre (Islington Community Theatre); Decade (co-writer, Headlong); Unbroken (Gate Theatre, London, 2009); The Lion's Mouth (Royal Court Rough Cuts); The Eleventh Capital (Royal Court Theatre, London, 2007) and the radio play Twelve Years (BBC Radio 4).

She is a winner of the George Devine Award (for The Eleventh Capital) and was the Big Room Playwright-in-residence at Paines Plough in 2013.

Unbroken
Decade
The Eleventh Capital
Wild Swans
The Empty Quarter
The Initiate
Merit
The Human Ear
The Tyler Sisters
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher

Beth Wood

Beth Wood is Artistic Director of Prospero Theatre Company, an inclusive award-winning theatre company that uses drama to improve the quality of life for adults and young people with disabilities and mental health conditions.

She is the co-author of Developing Your Emotional Health: The Compact Guide (Nick Hern Books, 2024) with Andy Barker and Brian Cooley. She also writes the drama activities for Longman's Shakespeare series and her plays have been widely performed.

Beth Wood
Developing Your Emotional Health: The Compact Guide

Leo Woodall

Leo Woodall is an English actor known for his roles in the HBO series The White Lotus and in the Netflix drama series One Day.

Leo Woodall
The Drama School Handbook

Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) was an English writer, considered one of the most important modernist authors of the twentieth century. Her novels include Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927) and Orlando (1928).

Chekhov's Three Sisters and Woolf's Orlando
Orlando

Julian Woolford

Julian Woolford is a theatre director, playwright and lyricist, based in the UK and working internationally. Julian's productions have been seen in the West End, off-Broadway and in Europe, and he has directed many British national tours and productions in regional theatres, including the hugely successful 2010 national tour of Oklahoma! starring Marti Webb. He is the Head of MA Musical Theatre at GSA/University of Surrey.

Julian Woolford
How Musicals Work

Victoria Worsley

Victoria Worsley is a qualified practitioner of the Feldenkrais Method, with decades of experience of working as an actor, movement director and theatre-maker. She teaches Feldenkrais in drama schools, at the Actors Centre in London, and for other performance companies and organisations, as well as coaching actors on an individual basis.

Victoria Worsley
Feldenkrais for Actors