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The Stanislavsky Research Centre was launched at The University of Leeds in January 2019.

Based at the University of Leeds, the Centre is co-hosted by the School of Performing Arts, University of Malta. The SRC is a unique international initiative created to provide a home for both academic and practice/performance-based research based upon the work and legacy of Konstantin Stanislavsky.

Originating in the pioneering scholarship of the late Professor Jean Benedetti, an internationally renowned authority and author of major books on Stanislavsky’s work, the Centre hosts and promotes a series of lectures, workshops, study days, symposia, short courses and other events throughout the year. The Centre will develop new and innovative research projects and offer support and supervision to researchers and research students world-wide.

Under the guidance of a distinguished international Advisory Board, and the Honorary Patronage of Professor Anatoly Smeliansky, the Centre is linked to the annual symposium, The S Word, which has presented major events in the UK, USA, Czech Republic and Malta (in April 2019), and develops and contributes important scholarly publication via the journal Stanislavski Studies (published by Taylor and Francis).

Paul Fryer (Founder and Co-Director)

Stefan Aquilina (Co-Director)

Jonathan Pitches (Deputy Director)

Anatoly Smeliansky (Honorary Patron)

Stefan Aquilina (University of Malta)

Marie-Christine Autant-Mathieu (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique,Paris)

Andrei Malaev Babel (Florida State University/Asolo Conservatory)

Sharon Marie Carnicke (University of Southern California)

David Chambers (Yale University)

Kathy Dacre (Rose Bruford College, UK)

Jan Hancil (Akademie múzických umění, Prague)

Bella Merlin (University of California, Riverside)

Jonathan Pitches (University of Leeds)

Dassia N. Posner (Northwestern University)

Laurence Senelick (Tufts University)

Siri Scott (University of Notre Dame)

Maria Shevtsova (Goldsmiths, University of London)

David Shirley (Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Edith Cowan University)

Sergei Tcherkasski (Russian State Institute for Performing Arts, St. Petersburg)

Partners and Links

• Copernicus Films
• Jean Benedetti on theatreVOICE.com
• Moscow Art Theatre School
• Routledge
• The Russian State Institute of Performing Arts
• Pushkin House
• ArenaPAL
• Cultural Transmission of Actor Training Techniques (University of Malta)