Vladimir Mirodan, PhD, FRSA is Emeritus Professor of Theatre, University of the Arts London. Trained on the Directors Course at Drama Centre London, he has taught and directed in most leading drama schools in the UK as well as internationally. He holds an MA and a PhD from Royal Holloway, University of London. He was appointed Professor of Theatre in 2010 and Emeritus Professor in 2015. He was Director of the School of Performance at Rose Bruford College, Vice-Principal and Director of Drama at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Principal of Drama Centre London and Director of Development and Research Leader, Drama and Performance, Central Saint Martins. Since 2014 he has been an Associate of B3sixty, the leading HR and mediation consultancy.
Throughout his career, Professor Mirodan took a keen interest in director training and formulated a significant number of formal and informal training frameworks. Vladimir Mirodan served for many years as Vice Chair of the Directors Guild of Great Britain, on the Drama Committee of the Scottish Arts Council and on the Board of the Citizens’ Theatre. He is a former Chairman of the Conference of Drama Schools, Deputy Chair of the National Council for Drama Training and has chaired the Directors Guild of Great Britain Trust and the Directors Charitable Foundation. He has previously also served as Governor at Rose Bruford College, the RCS, and the University of the Arts. Professor Mirodan’s research interests revolve around issues of acting psychology, in particular as this relates to the neuropsychology of gesture and posture. He is also interested in the history and evolution of actor and director training as well as in defining the ways in which the dramatization and staging of non-dramatic texts may reveal meanings alongside textual and contextual analyses. He has published on these topics and The Actor and the Character, his book on the psychology of transformation in acting, was published by Routledge in 2019 (https://arts-london.academia.edu/VladimirMirodan). Professor Mirodan is a member of the Editorial Board of the journal Stanislavski Studies and Review Editor of the journal Frontiers in Performance Science. He is currently editing Stanislavsky and Psychology, a volume in the Stanislavsky And… series, published by Routledge.