Simon Callow writes memoir, theatre history and biography about actors, writers and performers. Being an Actor examines the craft, working conditions and frustrations of theatrical life from inside the profession, while his multi-volume biography of Orson Welles follows Welles through theatre, radio and film with close attention to creative process. Callow has also written on Charles Dickens, Charles Laughton and other figures whose public performance cannot be separated from private ambition. His prose is energetic, opinionated and informed by practical stage experience rather than detached academic criticism. Being an Actor is the most direct route into Callow’s own theatrical experience, while his Welles and Dickens books expand outward into biography, performance history and the making of public personas. Read more Less
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