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Dermot Daly is a senior lecturer in the School of Drama at Leeds Conservatoire and a lecturer in the Leeds School of Arts, Leeds Beckett University, UK.

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Being Black and British: Before, During and After Drama School is about being Black, being British and being an actor before, during and after training.

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Foreword

Voicing Experiences Beyond Academia: Recognising Black British Actors and the Industry

How Valuable Is It To Your Work To Have Black British Actors Who Are Connected To Their Black Britishness?

Why Is A Book Like This Important To The Performance Ecology?

Prologue

0.1 Being Black In Britain

Act One: Pre-training

1.1 The Canon

1.2 School To School: A Journey

1.3 Youth theatre

1.3a Youth theatre: #BlackIs...

1.4 Attending Theatre

1.5 Toolkit

Act Two: Training

2.1 What Traditional Training Has Not Considered

2.2 Being Black In Training

2.3 Voice

2.4 Acting: Empowering Black Performers

2.5 Moving Whilst Black

2.6 Embracing Diasporic Difference: Rejecting limitations of Black characterisation in acting training

Act Three: The Profession

3.1 Making Your Own Work

3.2 What Is A Director Looking For?

3.3 My First Job

3.4 Mental Health

3.5 Dreams

Epilogue

4.1 A Parting Note

4.2 The Future