ABOUT ME I was born and grew up in the working class suburbs of west London. I learned to read when I was 5 years old and, from that moment on, became fascinated by the world of books, devouring everything I could lay my hands on. I first began acting while at secondary school and continued at Warwick University, where I studied English Literature. I did some acting classes at the Questors Theatre in west London for a couple of years before eventually enrolling in The Drama Centre London as an acting student. While there, I studied improvisation, classical European theatre, Rudolf Laban's Movement Psychology and Stanislavski, under John Blatchley, Christopher Fettes, Yat Malmgren and Doreen Cannon. Since graduating from Drama Centre, I have lived and worked in as many countries as I could, going to Spain to learn the language of Calderon and Cervantes, to Latin America to work in film and to Germany to study the language of Brecht. I believe in what Suzanne Langer says in her book on aesthetics, Feeling and Form, that the arts are human feeling expressed through symbolic form. I also believe that they are man's most sincere attempt to understand himself, to change himself, and thereby change the world. The following quote from Karl Marx sums up my feelings on this: "The work of art, like any other product, creates a public that is sensitive to art and capable of enjoying beauty. Production, then, doesn't just create an object for the subject, but also a subject for the object."   Karl Marx (Introduction to Criticism of Political Economy)