Brian Woolland

Brian Woolland worked as a wine merchant and a photographer, a teacher in mainstream education and then in a therapeutic community for maladjusted adolescents before becoming an Advisory Teacher for Drama. He then took up a post at the University of Reading, where he taught on he taught on a wide range of courses, specialising in educational drama, theatre production, Early Modern theatre, and modern American theatre.

In 2005 he resigned his post as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Film, Theatre & Television in order to focus on writing and working freelance as an educator and theatre director.

He is widely published as an author of educational and academic books, where his specialism is theatre of the early modern period.

He has enjoyed considerable success as a playwright – with eleven plays commissioned and produced by professional companies, and four published in book form. He has led theatre and creative writing workshops throughout the UK and in Greece, Hungary, Austria, Jordan, Palestine, The Lebanon, and Australia.

His novel,'The Invisible Exchange' was published in July 2022. It is a historical novel, set in the early C17th, and the first in a planned trilogy. 'Paradise Burning' is the second in the trilogy with Matthew Edgworth as a central character.