Industry Collaborations & Partnerships
Trustee and Chair of Theatre Deli (Curving Road): 2013-2021 (Chair: 2016-2019, Co-Chair 2019-2021)
Member of Commissione Consultiva, Dimitri School, Switzerland: 2016-2020
Teaching & Mentorship
Thomas Wilson teaches across the following areas:
- Actor training for devised performance
- Actor/Performer Training for text and devised contexts
- Practice Research methodologies
- Directing Through Research
He is particularly interested in supporting innovative and emerging practices in both training and performance practice.
Research & Knowledge Exchange
Research interests include:
- Theatrical Biomechanics for actors and directors
- Actor and Performer Training, including interdisciplinary models
- Circus Theatre/Circus Dance hybrids including animal performance
- International Mobility in actor and performer training
Publications / Research Outputs (selected)
(forthcoming) Wilson. T. Crossing Frontiers: performer training and international mobility. Brangwen, S, and Severn, J. Routledge Companion to Theatre and Internationalization. Abingdon and New York: Routledge.
Wilson, T. (2016) Juggling Trajectories: Gandini Juggling 1991-2015). London: Gandini Press. [Shortlisted for Theatre Book Prize 2016]
Wilson, T. (2024) One exercise I always return to: the dactyl and the gruppirovka. Theatre, Dance and Performance Training Journal 15.4. 699-701.
Wilson, T. (2023) There is no such thing as an accident. Theatre, Dance and Performance Training Journal 14.1. 44-45
Wilson, T. (2020). On Horses and Contact. Theatre, Dance and Performance Training Journal, 11.1. 40-43.
Wilson, T. (2019). Collapsing Time. Total Theatre Print Archive.
Wilson, T. (2016) An Anatomy of an Exercise. Theatre, Dance and Performance Training Journal 7.2. 212-213
Thomas Wilson was a regular reviewer and feature-writer for Total Theatre Magazine between 2002 and 2019. All of his work can be found at the Total Theatre Magazine Print Archive
Education / Academic Qualifications
BA Drama and Theatre Studies, Surrey (St Mary’s University College)
MA Physical Theatre, Royal Holloway, University of London
PGCE Secondary (Drama), Open University (Central School of Speech and Drama)
PG Cert Higher Education, University of Manchester
Additional
Wilson, T. (2026) “Gruppirovka as a tool for actors/directors” Theatrical Biomechanics in the 21st Century Symposium. Proper Job Theatre, Huddersfield. 22nd August
Wilson, T (2019) “An Exercise as a Lever” TapRA Performer Training Working Group, Exeter, 2nd September.