Michael Earley is Professor of Drama, Principal and Chief Executive Officer of Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance, one of the UK’s leading drama schools and conservatoires.

He was previously Head of the Lincoln School of Performing Arts.

Outside of HE his commercial career included being Publishing Director and owner of Methuen Drama publishers and Chief Producer of Plays for BBC Radio Drama.

Before moving to Britain in 1990, Michael Earley was Director of Theatre Studies at Yale University and also taught at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Smith College and the Juilliard School’s Drama Division.