Dr Tracy Irish
Education Consultant
Butterfly Theatre Collective
Tracy is a practitioner, writer and researcher who develops work across national and international projects with students and teachers from Primary to Postgraduate levels, working regularly with the Royal Shakespeare Company as an Education Associate Practitioner, with Warwick Business School as a Teaching Associate, and as a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Birmingham. She is a trustee for the British Shakespeare Association, and a director-governor for her local secondary school.
Tracy holds an MA in Shakespeare Studies from the Shakespeare Institute at the University of Birmingham and a PhD from Warwick Business School at the University of Warwick.
She has written a series of books for the classroom called The Shorter Shakespeare and also co-wrote Shakespeare and Meisner - A practical guide for Actors, Directors, Students and Teachers with Butterfly’s Aileen Gonsalves, published by Bloomsbury for the Arden Performance Companions Series.
Tracy recently gave a talk at the Globe Theatre’s Globe 4 Globe online symposium on Shakespeare and our climate emergency about Butterfly’s productions of Shakespeare in prehistoric caves.