Artistic Director of Different Light Theatre Company, a Lecturer in the Faculty of Creative Industries at National Academy of Singing and Dramatic Art, Ara Institute, Christchurch, New Zealand. Ph D in Theatre and Film Studies, University of Canterbury. Author of "Incapacity and Theatricality: Politics and Aesthetics in Theatre Involving Actors with Intellectual Disabilities" out January 2019 in the Routledge series Advances in Theatre and Performance Studies. Tony has a BA in English from King’s College, Cambridge and for many years has worked as an actor, director and writer in the UK, France, Italy, Turkey, the United States and, for the last twenty years, in Christchurch, New Zealand. Different Light Theatre is an ensemble of performers perceived to have intellectual disabilities.