Archie Backhouse

BA
Job title
Visiting Lecturer

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Archie trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama on the Collaborative and Devised Theatre BA Acting course, and has since worked as an actor, tutor and workshop facilitator.

Archie was in the national tour of ‘The Listening Room’, Ben Okri’s stage adaptation of ‘The Outsider’ (The Coronet) ‘There Is A Field’ (Theatre 503) and ‘Hunger’ (Arcola Theatre) He has recently worked with theatre maker Christopher Green on his show ‘No Show’ (The Yard). Archie has used his devising experience to perform in various Immersive Theatre projects and more recently has been performing his own character based comedy online.

He has worked as a workshop facilitator with ‘Talawa Theatre Company’Emergency Exit Arts’ and ‘Complicite’ as well as taking his own devising workshops into Brixton Prison in 2020. He has taught Audition and Self Tape Technique for ‘Generation Arts’ and as a visiting lecturer for other higher education institutions. Archie sits on the audition panel for the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and teaches on their ‘Intro To Acting’ course.