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Mark Westbrook is a writer, director, and acting coach based in Glasgow, Scotland.
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Education
Mark was born in Leicester in 1976 to mother Margaret and father Raymond. He attended Danemill County Primary School, Brockington College, and Lutterworth Grammar School before going on to study Drama and Theatre at the University of Kent at Canterbury. He gained further training at the Universiteit Utrecht, University of Nottingham, and Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, where he was awarded the Avrom Greenbaum Players Award for Direction. Later, he attended the Atlantic Theater Company's Acting School in New York City, where he trained in Practical Aesthetics.
Career
Mark Westbrook has been artistic director of several theatre companies, but he is currently artistic director of Tartan Spartan Films. He has also been a university lecturer, conservatory acting teacher, freelance director and workshop leader. As a director, he most recently completed and staged his own first full-length play, 'The Emotional Life of Furniture,' at the Tron Theatre in Glasgow. He received a full scholarship from Shed Productions to retrain as a television fiction writer at Glasgow Caledonian University. He is represented by MacFarlance-Chard.
Westbrook's directing credits include the Scottish premiere of Enda Walsh's 'Misterman' and Lee Hall's 'Spoonface Steinberg.' He has also directed The Dawn by Gordon Hunt, Rescuers Speaking by Wilfred Harrison, Tandem by Michelle Bradford, Necessary Targets by Eve Ensler, and Broken Biscuits by Gordon Hunt. More recently he directed Stitching by Anthony Neilson at the Tron Theatre in Glasgow, Pinter's The Dumb Waiter at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2013. In 2014, Mark made his first short film called WONDERLAND and in 2015 wrote and directed STAIN at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
He is now a full-time acting coach based in Glasgow, Scotland and runs Acting Coach Scotland, a professional acting studio teaching The Mindset Acting Technique, as well as working with Acting Coach Australia, a sister company.