Will Tosh

Biography

Will Tosh is Director of Education (Higher Education and Research) at Shakespeare’s Globe in London where co-leads the education department and directs the organisation’s scholarly research mission. He teaches, writes about, and researches the literature and culture of early modern England, and his work at the Globe also includes dramaturgy, new writing development and public engagement in person, in the media and online. 

Will is the author of the acclaimed 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 writes and reviews regularly for the literary press.