Biography
Rowan is an English teacher, working with children and adults in improving spoken and written English. He also teaches cultural awareness and coaches for citizenship tests and English qualification exams. He lived abroad for two years, teaching in elementary schools and junior high schools and coaching for English speech competitions at a prefectural level. He has been involved in the theatre and acting in some form or another since 1987, and worked as a voice-over artist throughout the nineties in audio dramas and animation. He studied drama and physical theatre at St Mary's University and has taken part in workshops, trained, and worked with companies such as the RSC, the Belarus Free Theatre, Flying Cloud, Complicité and In Human Form (performing at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2000 and 2001). He acted with YAT in several productions and went on to help backstage, run workshops, direct movement, and directed The Trial (2018) and Vinegar Tom (2024).