Tristan Marshall MA PhD FRHistS GoDA
Hailing from a theatre family, Tristan spent his youth visiting festivals around the UK and Ireland. He began his acting career at the Questors Theatre in London in 2003, playing a number of lead roles, including Lord Byron in Brenton’s Bloody Poetry, Subtle in Jonson’s The Alchemist, Horner in Wycherley’s The Country Wife – which toured at the Minack Theatre – and has most recently performed Soleimanpour’s White Rabbit Red Rabbit.
He directed his first production at the Questors in 2012, going on to direct Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi and Kirkwood’s NSFW before becoming Artistic Director in 2014. He set up the theatre’s annual Overnight Plays event in 2012 and continues to run it every year. He’s undergone directing training at Shakespeare’s Globe, acting training with the RSC and has lectured at both the Globe and the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.
He was awarded his doctorate in Jacobean theatre history from the University of Cambridge where he is now a Senior Member in English at Robinson College. His current research is on female representation on the early seventeenth century stages, with two articles forthcoming next year. In 2020 he was made a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society for his contribution to the study of early modern theatre.
He’s delighted to be making his first trip to Maidenhead and is very much looking forward to seeing an excitingly eclectic range of plays during the competition.