Patrick Spottiswoode joined Shakespeare’s Globe in 1984 and became founding Director, Globe Education in 1989. In 1995 he initiated a 30 year project to stage readings and record all surviving plays by Shakespeare’s contemporaries. Other projects include the first Globe MA in Shakespeare Studies with King’s College London, a two year programme of events celebrating Shakespeare and Islam and, more recently, a Shakespeare is German series of events including the launch of a book of translations, Goethe on Shakespeare, which Patrick commissioned.  Patrick is currently the President of the Shakespeare Theatre Association. This summer he received an Honorary PhD from Warwick University and an Honorary Fellowship from King’s College London.