Robert LeachRobert Leach is a retired academic, writer, and freelance theatre director. He held senior posts at Birmingham and Edinburgh Universities, authoring biographies, travel books, and theatre histories. His Theatre Workshop: Joan Littlewood and the Makin of Modern British Theatre (2006) and two-volume Illustrated History of British Theatre and Performance (2019) were shortlisted for Theatre Book of the Year. He has translated Sergei Tretyakov's plays (Glagoslav, 2019) and directed in Moscow, including the Russian premiere of Tretyakov's formerly banned I Want a Baby. Read More Read Less