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Margherita Laera is a Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre at the University of Kent, where she serves as Deputy Head of the School of Arts and Architecture. She is the author of Playwriting in Europe: Mapping Ecosystems and Practices with Fabulamundi (Routledge Focus, 2022); Theatre & Translation (Methuen Drama, 2019) and Reaching Athens: Community, Democracy and Other Mythologies in Adaptations of Greek Tragedy (Peter Lang, 2013), and editor of Theatre and Adaptation: Return, Rewrite, Repeat (Methuen Drama, 2014). Margherita also works as a theatre translator from and into Italian and English. She is co-editor of the 'Theatre &' book series for Methuen Drama, and founder of Performing International Plays, an organization promoting theatre (in) translation in secondary schools. Marco Young is a London-based graduate of Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. His theatre credits include My Cousin Rachel for Bath Theatre Royal, Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth for Guildford Shakespeare Company, The Stranger on the Bridge at Tobacco Factory and Salisbury Playhouse, and roles at Theatre503 and The Kings Head. He is originally from Cambridge, and is half-Scottish and half-Italian - in which he is fluent. |
