As well as teaching on courses in Design and
Acting at the Royal Welsh College, Steve Blandford is also Emeritus
Professor of Theatre, Film and Television at the University of
South Wales. He holds visiting Professorships at Cardiff
Metropolitan University and the University of Winchester. He has
published widely on British theatre, film and television including,
most recently, Theatre and Performance in Small Nations (Intellect,
2012) 'Jimmy McGovern' (Manchester University Press, 2013) and
contributions to the edited collections, ‘The War on Terror’
Post-9/11 Television Drama (2015) and Cops on the Box, Contemporary
British Crime Drama (2017).
In 2012, he led a team that produced a report
for the BBC Trust entitled, ‘Screening the Nation’, about the
impact on Wales during the production of Doctor Who and
related television drama in Cardiff. Steve is a published
playwright and has directed for theatre.
He was a founding trustee of National Theatre
Wales and was on the board of Zoom, the International Festival of
Young People's Film. He is currently a trustee of Chapter Arts
Centre and chairs their Artistic Programming and Learning
Committee. Until 2013, he was the Director of the Centre for the
Study of Media and Culture in Small Nations and remains on their
steering group.