Kevin Quarmby has been a professional actor since the early 1970s. Quarmby's experience as a theatre practitioner and his enthusiasm for the British stage have given him a unique and invaluable insight into the behind-the-scenes machinations of this glamorous profession. The often secretive and fantastical world is brought to life through Quarmby's thought-provoking and intelligent play reviews and interviews with actors and directors from the stage and screen. For observant, funny and critically fair reviews of plays by Shakespeare, Ibsen, Becket, Ionesco and many many more, enter this site and explore a wealth of critical and humorous writing which charts the development of twenty-first-century UK drama.

In 2008, Quarmby was awarded his doctorate by the University of London following his Ph.D studies in the English Department at King's College London. At King's College, he has for some years taught English Renaissance Literature and Drama, whilst also writing for academic journals both in the UK and USA. That same year, Quarmby acted as dramaturg and practitioner in Westward Ho! at the White Bear, Kennington, as well as directing a production of William Walton's comic opera The Bear for the Greenwich Opera Ensemble, featuring the rising-star mezzo-soprano, Belinda Williams. Quarmby also gave his paper on Henry V at the 2008 International Shakespeare Conference (in collaboration with the Shakespeare Association of America) in Kolkata, India, and began 2009 contributing to the Shakespeare Encyclopedia. He has since directed two more operas, Jonathan Dove's Greed and Stephen Oliver's Cinderella, for Bitsize Opera, London. Most recently, he portrayed the Coroner, Sir Michael Wright, in the 5* acclaimed and Evening Standard Theatre Award-nominated production of Stockwell: The Inquest into the Death of Jean Charles de Menezes at the Landor Theatre, London, afterwards transferring to the Tricycle Theatre Kilburn. 2010 finds him writing his first academic monograph, The Disguised Ruler in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries, to be published by Ashgate, as well as teaching as a Globe Education Lecturer at Shakespeare's Globe, London. As an actor, Kevin Quarmby has brought his theatre practitioner's experience to academe, an experience which he is eager to share with a wider audience. This site is dedicated to all who love British theatre, TV and film. Welcome.