Arts & International Affairs Volume 5, Number 1, Summer 2020 | Page 16

I’LL DO IT WHEN DAME JUDI DENCH DOES IT.
SONG OF ROMANIA AND ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND:
A QUESTION OF PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT, RELEVANCE,
AND DIVERSITY IN THEATRE MAKING
MIHAI FLOREA
University of Bristol
ARTS & INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS • 5.1 • SUMMER 2020
Mihai Florea is professional actor and a part-time teacher/researcher in Theatre
Studies at University of Bristol, UK, and recipient of a Duignan bursary
for a PhD thesis titled Actor in a Second Language. He has presented
academic papers at a number of universities in the UK, Finland, Germany
and Lithuania. He is an Associate Member of the Brokering Intercultural
Exchange group, a global network of academics and cultural managers, and
a co-founder of Nu Nu, a theatre company that supports professional actors
who use English as a second (non-native) language. He also established
and coordinates CASL (Centre for Actors in a Second Language), an online
research tool dedicated to the theme of second language acting. One of
his articles, entitled ‘Egg-fying’ Hamlet: The Second Language Actor and
Shakespeare Grammaticality'' has appeared in April 2019, in Shakespeare
Jahrbuch 155. The article entitled 'BANDIT: Here to Haunt You! On Why I
Became an Émigré Theatre Maker’�was published in 2019 in Journal MIK
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