Nicholas Ridout teaches in the Department of Drama at Queen Mary, University of London. He is the author of Stage Fright, Animals and Other Theatrical Problems (CUP: 2006), and co-editor, with Joe Kelleher, of Contemporary Theatres in Europe (Routledge: 2006). He is the co-author, with Claudia Castellucci, Romeo Castellucci, Chiara Guidi and Joe Kelleher of The Theatre of Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio (Routledge: 2007).