Luke Dixon is a director, teacher and academic. He is internationally known for both productions of Shakespeare and site-specific work. He was run workshops and training programmes in Asia, Africa, North and South America, throughout Europe and in the UK. His doctoral thesis was in the performance of gender and he has published widely on that subject as well as on multilungual and multicultural performance. Luke is Artistic Director of Theatre Nomad and the International Workshop Festival. His Play-acting: A guide to theatre workshops was published by Methuen Drama in 2003.