Giles Block

Giles Block is 'Master of the Words' at Shakespeare's Globe, London, where he has led the text work since 1999. He has been involved in over a hundred productions.

He is also a theatre director, and has directed Antony and Cleopatra, Hmlet and Troilus and Cressida at Shakespeare's Globe. Other theatre direction includes: The Fawn, She Stoops to Conquer (National Theatre); Macbeth, The Cherry Orchard, King Lear, Richard III, Hamlet, Skylight and Vincent in Brixton (Shochiku Company, Japan). In recent years, he has directed The Tempest, Henry V and The Comedy of Errors at The Blackfriars Theatre in Virginia.

In 2000, the Association of Major Theatres of Japan recognised his services to the Japanese Theatre. In 2011, Giles, together with Glynn MacDonald, was given the Sam Wanamaker Award for services to the Globe.

He is the author of Speaking the Speech: An Actor’s Guide to Shakespeare. (Nick Hern Books, 2013).