Dr John Matthews

John's first professional role was in BBC film drama while still a schoolboy in South Wales and his most recent parts have been on BBC radio, where he voiced Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury in John Nettles' production of Sir Walter Raleigh. Alongside, John has also appeared in experimental performance and in first casts of new writing at The Pleasance and Theatre 503. 

John is recognised internationally for his research in the field of training and, as well journal articles and edited collections he has authored three acclaimed books on the subject - Training and Performance, Anatomy of Performance Training and The Life of Training. John was the inaugural Research Fellow of the Stanislavski Centre and was a recipient of an AHRC Leadership Fellowship. Awarded his PhD by University of Surrey, John holds a First Class honours degree from University of London, where he was awarded the Prize for Excellence in the Field of Drama as an undergraduate.

‘HEART’, radio broadcast of a public lecture on Resonance FM                                  

‘BODY OF WORK’ a five part, week long series of ‘lunchtime lectures at The Old Operating Theatre Museum, London                                      

‘ANATOMY: JOHN MATTHEWS IN CONVERSATION WITH DAWN KEMP’, Centre of the Body, University of London

'THE SIGNIFICANCE OF STRESS IN DRAMA SCHOOL TRAINING’ Research Seminars on Theory, Practice & History of Performance at Goldsmiths University of London

‘TRAINING IN THE CLINIC, THE CLOISTER AND THE STUDIO’, Spirituality, Education and Exegesis Lecture Series at Liverpool Hope University

‘ASKEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS’, How To Act, international conference at Central School of Speech and Drama

‘THE BODY IN THE MAGIC BOX’ The Centre of Theatre Research in Europe at Roehampton University

‘INSCRIBING THE PALIMPSEST FLESH’ The Changing Body Symposium, international conference at Exeter University