Andy Kesson

Andy Kesson is a theatre historian and teacher who works with experimental, fringe and mainstream theatre companies and practitioners, from Emma Frankland to the Royal Shakespeare Company. He has led research projects on the earliest English playhouses (BeforeShakespeare.com), the history of bears in England (BoxOfficeBears.com) and the contemporary performance of early modern plays (GalateaProject.org), and runs the education platform ABitLit.co. He is the author of John Lyly and Early Modern...See more

Andy Kesson is a theatre historian and teacher who works with experimental, fringe and mainstream theatre companies and practitioners, from Emma Frankland to the Royal Shakespeare Company. He has led research projects on the earliest English playhouses (BeforeShakespeare.com), the history of bears in England (BoxOfficeBears.com) and the contemporary performance of early modern plays (GalateaProject.org), and runs the education platform ABitLit.co. He is the author of John Lyly and Early Modern Authorship, the editor of essay collections on print popularity and early English theatre, and works across the fields of literature, performance, archaeology, ancient-DNA analysis, animal studies and queer, trans and disability studies. See less