John Somers

Honorary University Fellow

John is Founder Editor of the journal Research in Drama Education, Founder Director of the Exeter international conference Researching Drama and Theatre in Education, and is Artistic Director of Exstream Theatre Company and Tale Valley Community Theatre. Exstream has been nominated for the
2007 Queen's Anniversary Prize. Together with collaborators, he has gained funding of around £250,000 to tour interactive theatre focusing on bioethics and mental health. The latter programme won the NIMHE Positive Practice award in 2005. He founded an MA Applied Drama at Exeter in 1999.
He is the 2003 recipient of the American Alliance of Theatre and Education Lin Wright Special Recognition Award. He has published widely and frequently works internationally, most recently in Poland, Finland, Taiwan and Turkey.