Dr Kevin A. Quarmby was awarded a PhD in Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama by King's College London and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Quarmby won the prestigious King's College 'Inglis Prize' and gained full Arts and Humanities Research Council funding for his studies. Prior to his academic career, Kevin Quarmby was a professional actor, appearing in numerous West End, National Theatre and Old Vic productions. On television, his many TV classics are regularly repeated on our screens. This professional experience allows students to engage with plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries as both literary and performance texts. Quarmby is a London Faculty member of Florida State University, offering their Study Abroad Shakespeare and Textual Studies courses. He also teaches a British Theatre course for the University of California London Programme, as well as open access 'Shakespeare and Elizabethan Literature' courses for a variety of American institutions based at the Foundation for International Education (FIE), London. At FIE, he offers a capstone course on British Theatre Studies for Temple University, Philadelphia.

Kevin Quarmby taught English Renaissance Literature at King's College London while studying for his PhD. Since then, he has offered courses for the University of Notre Dame and St Lawrence University. His other academic roles have included Globe Education Lecturer at Shakespeare's Globe London. As Associate Tutor for the University of Sussex's English and Drama Department, he workshopped and directed a final year production of Ben Jonson's rarely-performed Masque of Queens. Quarmby's British Theatre course for the Oxford Summer Program of Emory University, Atlanta, sees him teaching at Regent's Park College, Oxford, during the summer break. For the autumn of 2011, Quarmby was also Guest Lecturer at Homerton College, Cambridge, lecturing on Restoration Drama.

Away from the 'physical' classroom, "Dr Q" (as his students call him) is forging a virtual academic identity, offering internet-access Shakespeare Text and Performance classes to Emory students. These call upon Quarmby's pedagogical and practitioner talents, allowing students many thousands of miles away to appreciate the performative impact of their studies. In recognition of this, Quarmby was created Shakespeare Performance Specialist in Virtual Residence at Emory University. With his colleague, Sheila Cavanagh, he is also Co-Director of the 'World Shakespeare Project', an internet-based Shakespeare and performance teaching and research model. The inaugural meeting of this exciting project took place in Atlanta in June 2011. It represents an ongoing dialogue between the UK, USA, North Africa and India. With scaleability as its goal, the project seeks live engagement via the internet with local, often isolated academic communities. The 'World Shakespeare Project' is supported by the Halle Institute for Global Learning at Emory University. Assisted by Emory's Center for Interactive Teaching, the project made its first international linkup with Nistarini Women's College in Purulia, West Bengal, India in September 2011.

Kevin Quarmby has published extensively in academic journals, including Shakespeare, Shakespeare Bulletin, ROMARD and Cahiers Elizabethain. His article on the 1980 Jonathan Pryce Hamlet (a Royal Court production in which he appeared) is now accessible as part of the Routledge Shakespeare Virtual Special Issues. He was academic contributor to the 2009 The Shakespeare Encyclopedia, and contributes to the 'Renaissance and Early Modern Literature' section of Routledge ABES, The Routledge Annotated Bibliography of English Studies. In 2011, his article, 'Narrative of Negativity: Whig Historiography and the Spectre of King James in Measure for Measure', appeared in Shakespeare Survey, Volume 64 (2011). His first monograph, The Disguised Ruler in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries, is published by Ashgate March 2012. He is on the Editorial Board of The Map of Early Modern London. Quarmby is also editing William Davenant's Cruel Brother for Digital Renaissance Editions: Early Modern Drama Online. An established journalist and theatre reviewer, Quarmby also writes for online magazines in the USA and UK.