Tim Dalgleish

Tim Dalgleish was born in England in 1966. He began his working life as a stage hand for The Manchester Royal Exchange Theatre Company's production of Hamlet with Robert Lindsay. His first piece of journalism was published in 1985, followed a year later, with the performance of his first play a musical Stride. At 26 he published The Guerilla Philosopher a study of the prolific author Colin Wilson. He studied in London, New York and Madrid and followed this by teaching philosophy, literature,...See more

Tim Dalgleish was born in England in 1966. He began his working life as a stage hand for The Manchester Royal Exchange Theatre Company's production of Hamlet with Robert Lindsay. His first piece of journalism was published in 1985, followed a year later, with the performance of his first play a musical Stride. At 26 he published The Guerilla Philosopher a study of the prolific author Colin Wilson. He studied in London, New York and Madrid and followed this by teaching philosophy, literature, history and acting. His second book Lifting it Off the Page (1995) was an oral history of The Open University for whom he was both an MA student and employee. He wrote regularly for History of Britain Magazine and previous incarnations include having worked in bookshops, a museum and a bookies. His theatre work has seen him work with Physical Theatre companies such as RAT, Volcano, and Bare Bones. More traditional acting work includes parts such as Ernest in Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, Arthur Birling in Priestley's An Inspector Calls and Yang Sun in Brecht's The Good Person of Szechwan. He was Snout in A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Royal Shakespeare Company's Open Stages showcase in Stratford-upon-Avon and Macbeth in the Open Theatre Group's production of Macbeth. He toured nationally for with Voices of the Holocaust Theatre Company in an adaptation of Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning and Fragile Fire, a play about the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, which he co-wrote. His film work as a director includes numerous filmed versions of plays including Happy Days, Krapp's Last Tape, Death and the Maiden, Marat/Sade and Macbeth. In 2013 he directed his first documentary Beat about Allen Ginsberg's poem Howl, which was selected for the Flux Film Festival. As an actor he was in Imagine a short film by Carl Mason which received Special Mention at the Marbella International Film Festival 2015. He was in the feature film Fractured Minds and regularly records audiobooks such as Playing Macbeth: An Actors Journey into the Role his own account of acting one of Shakespeare's greatest roles and which has received especially enthusiastic reviews. At present he lives with his wife and daughters in Olney, Buckinghamshire. See less