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Norman Austick Outstanding Commitment Silver Award Winners Nathan Scott and Jemima Worrall

Congratulations to Silver Award winners for this year’s Norman Austick Award for Outstanding Commitment, Nathan Scott and Jemima Worrall. This new award for 2026 is presented to students on our BA (Hons) Modelmaking & Visual FX programme and BA (Hons) Production Design programme. The award is named after and presented by Lecturer Norman Austick, who […]

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Steve Byron

Aug 25, 2026

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Lecturer – BA (Hons) Acting for Stage and Screen

Steve is a professional performer, writer and practitioner from the North- East of England. Steve has worked in the creative industry for nearly forty years with recent acting credits in Mr Punch (2023) (written by Steve), Whale Of A Time with Peach plant Productions (2022) both at Alphabetti Theatre, Macbeth and Midsummer Night’s Dream for Elysium Theatre (2023), Sleeping Beauty at Gala Durham (2022) The Twenty Seven Club at LIVE theatre and When The Boat Comes In parts 1 and 2 at the Customs House (2018 -19) His writing credits include Mr Punch, Reiver, Tree, Sucking Eggs, Walter, Floorboards, Wrong Place Wrong Time and Bacon Knees and Sausage Finger. Steve has had a dozen plays produced since 2016.

Steve as a practitioner of drama has worked with Gibber, CragRats, Headway Arts, Liberdade, Little Big Butterfly, Theatre Royal Newcastle, Bigfoot Arts, LIVE theatre, SA Performing Arts, Boho Arts. Steve has worked full-time at Northern School of Art since 2023.

 

Research Interests & Projects/ Professional Activity / Publications/ Awards / Exhibitions / Media Coverage:

Walter (2018) – Winner of best children’s/ family theatre. British Theatre Guide 2018

Floorboards (2019)- Winner of best new theatre show. British Theatre Guide 2019

Mr Punch – Published by Bloomsbury Publishing 2023

 

Email:

Steve.Byron@northernart.ac.uk