Tim Prentki is Professor of Theatre for Development at the University of Winchester where he ran the MA in Theatre and Media as Development for many years. He is the author of The Fool in European Theatre and Applied Theatre: Development; co-author of Popular Theatre in Political Culture and co-editor of The Applied Theatre Reader and Performance & Civic Engagement. He is a member of the Review Boards of Research in Drama Education and Applied Theatre Research and publishes regularly in academic journals around the world. He is currently co-editing The Routledge Companion to Applied Performance.