Dr Will Tosh

Dr Will Tosh is Director of Education (Higher Education and Research) at Shakespeare’s Globe. He teaches, writes about, and researches the literature and culture of Shakespeare’s England. He is a member of the executive leadership team at the Globe, and directs the organisation’s scholarly research mission. 

Will’s work at the Globe also includes dramaturgy, new writing development and public engagement in person, in the media and online. He is the author of Straight Acting: The Many Queer Lives of William Shakespeare (2024, winner of the Theatre Book Prize 2025). Will’s other books include Playing Indoors: Staging Early Modern Drama in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse (2018), a study of performance in the Globe’s candlelit indoor theatre, and Male Friendship and Testimonies of Love in Shakespeare’s England (2016), which revealed the intimate social circle of the Elizabethan spy Anthony Bacon. 

Will is also co-director of the Shakespeare Centre London, a research collaboration with King’s College London committed to widening understanding of and participation in the field of Shakespeare studies.