This launch event will bring together the editor of the book, Dermot Daly, with Liverpool city region artists and creatives to discuss some of the themes in the book as well as answering questions from the audience around Black British(ness), actor training, and performance.

Written by Black writers working in and around the British performative industries, Being Black and British: Before, During and After Drama School offers practical and theoretical tools to take into the classroom, studio, rehearsal room, mind, body and heart, focalised unapologetically through being Black in Britain. Structured across three acts, it covers themes present on the road to drama school such as youth theatre, the texts studied and early experiences in theatre spaces; drama school training with practical suggestions to encourage and embolden Black actors and the world of the profession, ensuring that mental health, making work and a sense of what can be offered by Black actors is made clear.