The book, Being Black and British: Before, During and After Drama School, is about being Black, being British and being an actor before, during and after training.

As a part of Digital BlackCentric Week, the online book launch features the editor of the book, Dermot Daly, alongside the contributors to the book.  This special book launch is for writers, artists and practitioners within the creative sector to come together discuss the themes in the book as well as answering questions from the audience around Black British(ness), actor training and performance.

Written by Black writers working in and around the British performative industries, Being Black and British: Before, During and After Drama School offers practical and theoretical tools to take into the classroom, studio, rehearsal room, mind, body and heart, focalised unapologetically through being Black in Britain.  Structured across three acts, it covers themes present on the road to drama school such as youth theatre, the texts studied and early experiences in theatre spaces; drama school training with practical suggestions to encourage and embolden Black actors and the world of the profession, ensuring that mental health, making work and a sense of what can be offered by Black actors is made clear.

This book is a call to action and a challenge to all those who teach, lecture, direct, parent, produce, cast and/or train, Black performers in Britain – and those performers themselves, to listen more, ask more, feel more and be more.

The book can be pre-ordered from your favourite book shop or from the publisher’s website.

The online book launch is included in the Digital BlackCentric Week standard ticket at £35 or it is £10 for a ticket for the book launch only.

The Zoom link for the online book launch will be sent to attendees the day before the event.

Image credit: Designed cover image Dermot Daly.