Stephen believes in teaching. And learning.

And considers teaching one of his predominant skill sets. Even before his acting training at  RADA,  he taught English and Drama both in Further and Secondary Education having recently graduated from Newcastle University with a degree in English Language and Literature.

As a professional actor, and then theatre-maker, these skills lay untouched, but it wasn’t long before he started working with young and emerging actors, performers, circus artists, dancers, singers and even non-actors eventually both delivering and designing workshops, classes and courses.

He has worked at most of the major conservatoires, and many universities around London and  the South (Reading, Goldsmiths, London Metropolitan, Middlesex, De Montfort, Bedford and Cambridge University Department of Architecture) as well as for the Royal National Theatre Department of Education and the Actors Centre,  while more recently with Fourth Monkey Theatre Company and Ayyam al Masrah, Gaza.

In fact, he has taken much inspiration as a teacher from his work beyond these shores. In Palestine, Serbia, Uganda, Japan, Lebanon, Austria and the Ukraine.