Andrew Westerside

Dr. Andrew Westerside (Wes) is a performer, director, theorist and core member of Proto-type Theater. In 2011 he completed a PhD studying the field of contemporary performance aesthetics at Lancaster University [UK].

Most recently, Wes has performed and toured nationally and internationally with Proto-type Theater in: THIRD PERSON (Redux) [2010-], VIRTUOSO (working title) [2009], WHISPER [2007-], and worked as a creative collaborator on FORTNIGHT [2011]. He has directed two performance works premiering in the UK: THE CALMER FUTURE? [2005] and AN INTERVIEW WITH DORIAN GRAY [2006].

Depending on the direction of the wind, his biggest influences are: Robert Wilson, Societas Raffello Sanzio, Reckless Sleepers, Rimini Protokoll, and Andrew-Graham Dixon.

He is one of the few contemporary performance makers in the UK who is openly and unashamedly passionate about football. In the past 10 years he has unsuccessfully tried to: learn the violin, speak Russian, rollerblade, hack a computer network in California and cook a poached egg. He is succeeding in learning German.

Wes is a Lecturer in Drama at the University of Lincoln.