Dick McCaw

Dick McCaw was co-founder of the Actors Touring Company in 1978, and of the Medieval Players in 1981. Between 1993 and 2001 he was Director of the International Workshop Festival for whom he curated 9 festivals featuring major figures in the performing arts. Since 2007 he has been a Senior Lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London. He has edited and introduced two books: With an Eye for Movement (on Warren Lamb’s development of Rudolph Laban’s movement theories) for Brechin Books (2006) and The Laban Sourcebook (Routledge 2011). He has written three books: Bakhtin and Theatre (Routledge, 2016), Training the Actor’s Body (Methuen, 2018) and Rethinking the Actor’s Body (Methuen, 2020.  He qualified as a Feldenkrais practitioner in 2007, and became an Instructor of Wu Family Tai Chi Chuan in 2016 which he has been studying since 2008.