Stephan Le Marchand

BA English and Theatre Studies, 1979

After graduating, I spent two years at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and then the next two years working (and resting) as a professional actor. In 1983 I started teaching English at The King's School in Worcester, staying there for my entire career until retirement in 2018. I was a housemaster for 21 of those 35 years and was involved in school sport and especially school drama, directing nearly 50 productions. I completed an MA at The Shakespeare Institute in 2012. I married Sarah in 1984 and we have two daughters, one a teacher and the other a lawyer.

Much of my retirement has been spent trying to write fiction. So Much More the Man, my debut novel, is available from Amazon, Waterstones and The Book Guild.

My most vivid memories of Warwick nearly all involve drama, especially being in Rowland Cotterill's productions of The White Devil, King Lear and The Sea. We took my production of Oedipus The King to the National Student Drama Festival in Southampton in 1979 and it was absolutely slated!