Richard Delaney FRSA
@richardddelaney.bsky.social
💼 Programme Leader | BA Acting: Contemporary & Devised | RCSSD
💡 Research & Teaching | Queer Phenomenology & Psychophysical Actor Training
🎥 Coaching | Online, In-Person, On-Set
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💡 Research & Teaching | Queer Phenomenology & Psychophysical Actor Training
🎥 Coaching | Online, In-Person, On-Set
🏳️🌈 he/they
🔗 linktr.ee/RichardDDelaney
November 16, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Guillermo del Toro’s FRANKENSTEIN had a beautiful, sumptuous, epic feel. Perfect Saturday evening fare for me. The flourishes of melodrama he brought to this gothic tale made for a cracking watch. He absolutely knows how to handle excess.
@netflix.com @realgdt.bsky.social
@netflix.com @realgdt.bsky.social
November 15, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Guillermo del Toro’s FRANKENSTEIN had a beautiful, sumptuous, epic feel. Perfect Saturday evening fare for me. The flourishes of melodrama he brought to this gothic tale made for a cracking watch. He absolutely knows how to handle excess.
@netflix.com @realgdt.bsky.social
@netflix.com @realgdt.bsky.social
I just downed a Mezcal Margarita.
Like a shot.
In one.
Clearly it has been a week.
Like a shot.
In one.
Clearly it has been a week.
November 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
I just downed a Mezcal Margarita.
Like a shot.
In one.
Clearly it has been a week.
Like a shot.
In one.
Clearly it has been a week.
Amid talk of housing & employability, the new WonkHE podcast touched on creative access and course “branding.” Fleeting mentions, but they signal deep shifts in how we measure value in HE. STEM dominates; the case for STEAM must stay loud.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
Public attitudes, housing, employability
Podcast Episode · The Wonkhe Show · 30/10/2025 · 54m
podcasts.apple.com
October 31, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Amid talk of housing & employability, the new WonkHE podcast touched on creative access and course “branding.” Fleeting mentions, but they signal deep shifts in how we measure value in HE. STEM dominates; the case for STEAM must stay loud.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
Loved visiting Oxford School of Drama yesterday to run workshops with their Foundation students. Such an open and curious group! Great to share a bit about what’s happening at Central and to feel that sense of collaboration between schools — more of this, please.
October 31, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Loved visiting Oxford School of Drama yesterday to run workshops with their Foundation students. Such an open and curious group! Great to share a bit about what’s happening at Central and to feel that sense of collaboration between schools — more of this, please.
Delighted to contribute to This Is A Voice (S12 E2) with Dr Gillyanne Kayes & Jeremy Fisher on student burnout & the perfectionism trap in creative education. Systemic issues we must navigate as educators.
Highly recommend the podcast if you haven't listened!
Highly recommend the podcast if you haven't listened!
Student Burnout, Time Poverty & The Perfectionism Trap. With Dr Ayan Panja & Richard Delaney
Podcast Episode · This Is A Voice · 28/10/2025 · 28m
podcasts.apple.com
October 28, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Delighted to contribute to This Is A Voice (S12 E2) with Dr Gillyanne Kayes & Jeremy Fisher on student burnout & the perfectionism trap in creative education. Systemic issues we must navigate as educators.
Highly recommend the podcast if you haven't listened!
Highly recommend the podcast if you haven't listened!
Fantastic to see another BA Acting (CDT) alumna recognised! Congratulations to May Munuo, shortlisted for Best Performance: New Voice at The Speakies.
Always brilliant to see Royal Central School of Speech and Drama alumni making their mark across so many different sectors and genres.
Always brilliant to see Royal Central School of Speech and Drama alumni making their mark across so many different sectors and genres.
September 19, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Fantastic to see another BA Acting (CDT) alumna recognised! Congratulations to May Munuo, shortlisted for Best Performance: New Voice at The Speakies.
Always brilliant to see Royal Central School of Speech and Drama alumni making their mark across so many different sectors and genres.
Always brilliant to see Royal Central School of Speech and Drama alumni making their mark across so many different sectors and genres.
Public debate on universities is shaped more by myth than reality. This new survey shows just how far perception diverges from fact — from graduate regret, to tuition fees, to the scale of universities’ economic impact.
Worth a read:
www.hepi.ac.uk/reports/publ...
Worth a read:
www.hepi.ac.uk/reports/publ...
Public hugely overestimate graduate regret and underestimate the economic value of universities while being wrong about tuition fees – new study - HEPI
The public hugely overestimate how many graduates regret going to university and significantly underestimate the importance of higher education to the UK economy, according to a new study into percept...
www.hepi.ac.uk
September 16, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Public debate on universities is shaped more by myth than reality. This new survey shows just how far perception diverges from fact — from graduate regret, to tuition fees, to the scale of universities’ economic impact.
Worth a read:
www.hepi.ac.uk/reports/publ...
Worth a read:
www.hepi.ac.uk/reports/publ...
Both acting and politics are being warped by celebrity culture. Merit and competence fall away in favour of charisma and spectacle.
In my latest blog, I reflect on how this shift is eroding substance — and how we might resist.
medium.com/@mrricharddd...
In my latest blog, I reflect on how this shift is eroding substance — and how we might resist.
medium.com/@mrricharddd...
When Celebrity Replaces Substance: The Shared Crisis of Art and Politics
I have been struck recently by how both politics and the arts appear to be facing the same difficulty. In different ways, each is being…
medium.com
September 12, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Both acting and politics are being warped by celebrity culture. Merit and competence fall away in favour of charisma and spectacle.
In my latest blog, I reflect on how this shift is eroding substance — and how we might resist.
medium.com/@mrricharddd...
In my latest blog, I reflect on how this shift is eroding substance — and how we might resist.
medium.com/@mrricharddd...
Why do students rush to rehearsals but drag their feet to voice class?
New blog: pleasure as both compass AND craft in actor training. Learning to transform the “boring” into play.
medium.com/@mrricharddd...
New blog: pleasure as both compass AND craft in actor training. Learning to transform the “boring” into play.
medium.com/@mrricharddd...
A Dramaturgy of Pleasure: Compass, Craft, and Curiosity in Actor Training
It is nine in the morning. A skills class is due to begin — voice, movement, text work — but the atmosphere is sluggish. Some students are…
medium.com
September 11, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Why do students rush to rehearsals but drag their feet to voice class?
New blog: pleasure as both compass AND craft in actor training. Learning to transform the “boring” into play.
medium.com/@mrricharddd...
New blog: pleasure as both compass AND craft in actor training. Learning to transform the “boring” into play.
medium.com/@mrricharddd...
“Students arrive with a deep hunger to learn, but also with a fierce resistance to making mistakes."
New piece on how pandemic anxiety meets educational marketisation in the actor training studio - and what we might do about it.
Wrestling with uncertainty as both challenge and craft requirement.
New piece on how pandemic anxiety meets educational marketisation in the actor training studio - and what we might do about it.
Wrestling with uncertainty as both challenge and craft requirement.
Wrestling with Uncertainty: Actor Training in a Post-Pandemic World
Introduction: A Different Texture of Anxiety
medium.com
September 10, 2025 at 9:43 AM
“Students arrive with a deep hunger to learn, but also with a fierce resistance to making mistakes."
New piece on how pandemic anxiety meets educational marketisation in the actor training studio - and what we might do about it.
Wrestling with uncertainty as both challenge and craft requirement.
New piece on how pandemic anxiety meets educational marketisation in the actor training studio - and what we might do about it.
Wrestling with uncertainty as both challenge and craft requirement.
Reposted by Richard Delaney FRSA
Not everything that looks like progress is liberation.
When queerness becomes a brand, a vibe, a legible performance—it risks losing its radical edge.
So what does it mean to queer queerness?
My new blog:
medium.com/@mrricharddd...
When queerness becomes a brand, a vibe, a legible performance—it risks losing its radical edge.
So what does it mean to queer queerness?
My new blog:
medium.com/@mrricharddd...
Why The Queer Must Queer Itself
To stay radical, queerness must resist becoming settled — even when the performance of progress looks like freedom.
medium.com
September 4, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Not everything that looks like progress is liberation.
When queerness becomes a brand, a vibe, a legible performance—it risks losing its radical edge.
So what does it mean to queer queerness?
My new blog:
medium.com/@mrricharddd...
When queerness becomes a brand, a vibe, a legible performance—it risks losing its radical edge.
So what does it mean to queer queerness?
My new blog:
medium.com/@mrricharddd...
Reposted by Richard Delaney FRSA
Collective Fringe is back Jan 2026! 🎭
Last year’s festival saw Phoebe Waller-Bridge funding & Bush Writers’ Group invites. Now they’re looking for writers & producers with plays in development.
Free space, dramaturgy, filmed recording & 70% box office.
collectiveactingstudio.co.uk/collective-f...
Last year’s festival saw Phoebe Waller-Bridge funding & Bush Writers’ Group invites. Now they’re looking for writers & producers with plays in development.
Free space, dramaturgy, filmed recording & 70% box office.
collectiveactingstudio.co.uk/collective-f...
September 4, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Collective Fringe is back Jan 2026! 🎭
Last year’s festival saw Phoebe Waller-Bridge funding & Bush Writers’ Group invites. Now they’re looking for writers & producers with plays in development.
Free space, dramaturgy, filmed recording & 70% box office.
collectiveactingstudio.co.uk/collective-f...
Last year’s festival saw Phoebe Waller-Bridge funding & Bush Writers’ Group invites. Now they’re looking for writers & producers with plays in development.
Free space, dramaturgy, filmed recording & 70% box office.
collectiveactingstudio.co.uk/collective-f...
Reposted by Richard Delaney FRSA
I’ve spent the last 48 hours thinking about what the Spotlight ruling means for actors.
The fees keep climbing, opportunities keep shrinking — and the people who can least afford it are paying the most.
Here’s my take.
medium.com/@mrricharddd...
The fees keep climbing, opportunities keep shrinking — and the people who can least afford it are paying the most.
Here’s my take.
medium.com/@mrricharddd...
The £216 Price of Hope: How Spotlight’s Monopoly Exploits Britain’s Actors
How Spotlight’s casting monopoly creates a two-tier system where struggling actors pay the most for the least access.
medium.com
September 5, 2025 at 9:20 AM
I’ve spent the last 48 hours thinking about what the Spotlight ruling means for actors.
The fees keep climbing, opportunities keep shrinking — and the people who can least afford it are paying the most.
Here’s my take.
medium.com/@mrricharddd...
The fees keep climbing, opportunities keep shrinking — and the people who can least afford it are paying the most.
Here’s my take.
medium.com/@mrricharddd...
Reposted by Richard Delaney FRSA
Silence isn’t neutral. Neutral isn’t action. And action is now nothing but urgent.
Farage and Reform UK’s rise poses an existential risk to higher education and the arts.
🔗 Full piece:
medium.com/@mrricharddd...
Farage and Reform UK’s rise poses an existential risk to higher education and the arts.
🔗 Full piece:
medium.com/@mrricharddd...
On the Edge of the Possible: Reform UK, Farage, and the Future of Higher Education and the Arts
Why neutrality is no longer an option for higher education and the arts under a potential Reform government.
medium.com
September 9, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Silence isn’t neutral. Neutral isn’t action. And action is now nothing but urgent.
Farage and Reform UK’s rise poses an existential risk to higher education and the arts.
🔗 Full piece:
medium.com/@mrricharddd...
Farage and Reform UK’s rise poses an existential risk to higher education and the arts.
🔗 Full piece:
medium.com/@mrricharddd...
Silence isn’t neutral. Neutral isn’t action. And action is now nothing but urgent.
Farage and Reform UK’s rise poses an existential risk to higher education and the arts.
🔗 Full piece:
medium.com/@mrricharddd...
Farage and Reform UK’s rise poses an existential risk to higher education and the arts.
🔗 Full piece:
medium.com/@mrricharddd...
On the Edge of the Possible: Reform UK, Farage, and the Future of Higher Education and the Arts
Why neutrality is no longer an option for higher education and the arts under a potential Reform government.
medium.com
September 9, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Silence isn’t neutral. Neutral isn’t action. And action is now nothing but urgent.
Farage and Reform UK’s rise poses an existential risk to higher education and the arts.
🔗 Full piece:
medium.com/@mrricharddd...
Farage and Reform UK’s rise poses an existential risk to higher education and the arts.
🔗 Full piece:
medium.com/@mrricharddd...
UK higher education demands full-time hours.
But students are forced to work nights to survive.
Burnout isn’t inevitable. It’s designed.
Here’s how we fix it:
medium.com/@mrricharddd...
But students are forced to work nights to survive.
Burnout isn’t inevitable. It’s designed.
Here’s how we fix it:
medium.com/@mrricharddd...
Burnout by Design: Why UK Higher Education Needs a Student Basic Income
Why student burnout is a matter of policy design, not personal failure.
medium.com
September 8, 2025 at 9:59 AM
UK higher education demands full-time hours.
But students are forced to work nights to survive.
Burnout isn’t inevitable. It’s designed.
Here’s how we fix it:
medium.com/@mrricharddd...
But students are forced to work nights to survive.
Burnout isn’t inevitable. It’s designed.
Here’s how we fix it:
medium.com/@mrricharddd...
Trump’s rebrand from Dept of Defense to Dept of War is deeply concerning.
Words matter in diplomacy and leadership—this linguistic shift from defensive to offensive posture sends a clear signal globally.
The 1949 change to “Defense” was intentional, post-WWII healing. This reversal is troubling.
Words matter in diplomacy and leadership—this linguistic shift from defensive to offensive posture sends a clear signal globally.
The 1949 change to “Defense” was intentional, post-WWII healing. This reversal is troubling.
September 6, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Trump’s rebrand from Dept of Defense to Dept of War is deeply concerning.
Words matter in diplomacy and leadership—this linguistic shift from defensive to offensive posture sends a clear signal globally.
The 1949 change to “Defense” was intentional, post-WWII healing. This reversal is troubling.
Words matter in diplomacy and leadership—this linguistic shift from defensive to offensive posture sends a clear signal globally.
The 1949 change to “Defense” was intentional, post-WWII healing. This reversal is troubling.
Rayner was right to resign, but Labour is much weaker without her authentic working-class voice against populism. With Reform and Farage surging, losing that connection to Labour’s base - & beyond - feels like a critical blow.
Hope the deputy leadership brings someone who can speak to the left.
Hope the deputy leadership brings someone who can speak to the left.
September 6, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Rayner was right to resign, but Labour is much weaker without her authentic working-class voice against populism. With Reform and Farage surging, losing that connection to Labour’s base - & beyond - feels like a critical blow.
Hope the deputy leadership brings someone who can speak to the left.
Hope the deputy leadership brings someone who can speak to the left.
Interesting to see voices and commentators claiming that @equityuk.bsky.social’s pursuit of this court case has been a waste of members’ fees. To have not pursued it, for me, would have been a dereliction of duty by @paulwfleming.bsky.social et al.
The only question in my mind now, is what next?
The only question in my mind now, is what next?
I’ve spent the last 48 hours thinking about what the Spotlight ruling means for actors.
The fees keep climbing, opportunities keep shrinking — and the people who can least afford it are paying the most.
Here’s my take.
medium.com/@mrricharddd...
The fees keep climbing, opportunities keep shrinking — and the people who can least afford it are paying the most.
Here’s my take.
medium.com/@mrricharddd...
The £216 Price of Hope: How Spotlight’s Monopoly Exploits Britain’s Actors
How Spotlight’s casting monopoly creates a two-tier system where struggling actors pay the most for the least access.
medium.com
September 5, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Interesting to see voices and commentators claiming that @equityuk.bsky.social’s pursuit of this court case has been a waste of members’ fees. To have not pursued it, for me, would have been a dereliction of duty by @paulwfleming.bsky.social et al.
The only question in my mind now, is what next?
The only question in my mind now, is what next?
I’ve spent the last 48 hours thinking about what the Spotlight ruling means for actors.
The fees keep climbing, opportunities keep shrinking — and the people who can least afford it are paying the most.
Here’s my take.
medium.com/@mrricharddd...
The fees keep climbing, opportunities keep shrinking — and the people who can least afford it are paying the most.
Here’s my take.
medium.com/@mrricharddd...
The £216 Price of Hope: How Spotlight’s Monopoly Exploits Britain’s Actors
How Spotlight’s casting monopoly creates a two-tier system where struggling actors pay the most for the least access.
medium.com
September 5, 2025 at 9:20 AM
I’ve spent the last 48 hours thinking about what the Spotlight ruling means for actors.
The fees keep climbing, opportunities keep shrinking — and the people who can least afford it are paying the most.
Here’s my take.
medium.com/@mrricharddd...
The fees keep climbing, opportunities keep shrinking — and the people who can least afford it are paying the most.
Here’s my take.
medium.com/@mrricharddd...
Seen more of @zackpolanski.bsky.social this week than any other @greenparty.org.uk MP since the election. His voice is cutting through—but media still sideline diverse voices. In today’s landscape, headlines get attention before substance does.
September 4, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Seen more of @zackpolanski.bsky.social this week than any other @greenparty.org.uk MP since the election. His voice is cutting through—but media still sideline diverse voices. In today’s landscape, headlines get attention before substance does.
I really hoped we’d seen the last of Nads.
September 4, 2025 at 9:57 PM
I really hoped we’d seen the last of Nads.
“We must not get bound down on measuring things that we cannot.” Patrick Vallance on REF 2029.
Valuing People, Culture & Environment matters, but can we really score research culture? Muscatelli says no.
How should REF recognise culture without creating more bureaucracy?
#HigherEducation #REF2029
Valuing People, Culture & Environment matters, but can we really score research culture? Muscatelli says no.
How should REF recognise culture without creating more bureaucracy?
#HigherEducation #REF2029
Patrick Vallance hits pause on Research Excellence Framework
Science minister announces review of controversial changes to research environment assessment
www.timeshighereducation.com
September 4, 2025 at 11:52 AM
“We must not get bound down on measuring things that we cannot.” Patrick Vallance on REF 2029.
Valuing People, Culture & Environment matters, but can we really score research culture? Muscatelli says no.
How should REF recognise culture without creating more bureaucracy?
#HigherEducation #REF2029
Valuing People, Culture & Environment matters, but can we really score research culture? Muscatelli says no.
How should REF recognise culture without creating more bureaucracy?
#HigherEducation #REF2029
Collective Fringe is back Jan 2026! 🎭
Last year’s festival saw Phoebe Waller-Bridge funding & Bush Writers’ Group invites. Now they’re looking for writers & producers with plays in development.
Free space, dramaturgy, filmed recording & 70% box office.
collectiveactingstudio.co.uk/collective-f...
Last year’s festival saw Phoebe Waller-Bridge funding & Bush Writers’ Group invites. Now they’re looking for writers & producers with plays in development.
Free space, dramaturgy, filmed recording & 70% box office.
collectiveactingstudio.co.uk/collective-f...
September 4, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Collective Fringe is back Jan 2026! 🎭
Last year’s festival saw Phoebe Waller-Bridge funding & Bush Writers’ Group invites. Now they’re looking for writers & producers with plays in development.
Free space, dramaturgy, filmed recording & 70% box office.
collectiveactingstudio.co.uk/collective-f...
Last year’s festival saw Phoebe Waller-Bridge funding & Bush Writers’ Group invites. Now they’re looking for writers & producers with plays in development.
Free space, dramaturgy, filmed recording & 70% box office.
collectiveactingstudio.co.uk/collective-f...