David Cottis is Lecturer in Scriptwriting at Middlesex University, and Artistic Director of the Instant Classics Theatre Company. He has edited two volumes of Twentieth-Century Welsh Plays in English for the Parthian Press, A Dirty Broth and A Ladder of Words (both 2020) with a third, Looming Large in Their Legends, due for publication next year. He has contributed chapters to The Oxford Handbook of the British Musical (2016) and the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of the Global Musical. He has taught at Birkbeck, Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, and the Universities of East London, Northampton, and East Anglia.
