Scott Brooksbank

BA, MA
Job title
Visiting Lecturer - Evening Courses (Acting: Shakespeare), Gap Year Diploma
Portrait of Scott Brooksbank

Profile

Scott trained at Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where he recently returned as a project director. He also directs for other London drama schools including Rose Bruford, Royal Central and ALRA.

He is a leading member of experimental theatre company The Factory, with whom he has played Macbeth, The OdysseyHamlet, The Seagull, Round Two, As You Like it, CymbelineThe Two Gentlemen of Verona, Pericles, Timon of Athens, Troilus & Cressida and Measure for Measure.

Other recent acting credits in theatre include Sonnet Sunday at Shakespeare’s Globe;  playing Stan Laurel in Laurel and Hardy (Frinton); The Magic Flute (Budapest Festival Orchestra); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (National Orchestra of Lyon); Mobile 4 (Orange Tree Theatre); iAm (Spid Productions); Bread (Metta Theatre for Theatre Uncut at The Young Vic); The Spire (Salisbury Playhouse); The Merchant of Venice (Creation); Brazil, Prometheus (Secret Cinema); Macbeth (Baz Productions); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Jagged Fence); 3rd Ring Out (Metis Arts); Now is the Hour (Edinburgh); seasons at Stafford Festival Shakespeare and Sevenoaks Playhouse; Macbeth, Robin Hood, A Comedy of Errors (Creation); MoonJourney, (Pleasance); Treasure Island (Coventry).

Radio: Winner of the 2002 BBC Carleton Hobbs Award; numerous plays as part of the BBC Radio Drama Company.