David Linton

Dr David Linton is Head of Acting and programme leader for the BA (Hons) Acting degree. He is a performer and theatre practitioner whose research explores issues of resistance, adaptation and exchange. This focuses on participatory arts practice, black British performance and pre-modern theatre forms and their contemporary applications specifically mask/minstrelsy, pantomime, bursleque/neo burlesque, cabaret, pierrot, hip hop theatre and revue. As a founder member of Prussia Lane production company, a co-operative of of performers, writers, filmmakers, designers and dancers his work is engaged in the exploration of interdisciplinary approaches in the creation and realisation of performance projects. He was a core scholar of the Musical Theatre and All that Jazz network funded from the Arts and Humanities Research Council working with an international group of scholars, exchanging ideas about connections between musical theatre and Jazz in dialogue with practitioners and industry workers, developing new approaches and practices. He is committed to creative learning and equality of opportunity and as a member of British Actors Equity was elected by his fellow actors onto Equity's equalities committee. He is the author of Nation and Race in West End Revue 1910-1930 (2021) and co -editor of Popular Musical Theatre in London and Berlin 1890-1939 (2014).