Adrian Antony Jackson (born 23 September 1956) is an English theatre director, playwright, teacher and trainer. Life and career Jackson was born in Oxford, England. He attended Lord Williams's School, a comprehensive school in Thame, Oxon, and later Magdalen College Oxford from 1976 to 1979, where he studied English, graduating with a BA Honors Degree. Jackson has worked with many theatre forms, including classics, musicals and an opera; one of his specialisms has been the Theatre of the Oppressed, having translated five books by the Brazilian theatre pioneer Augusto Boal, with whom he collaborated on an annual basis till his death in 2009. He led workshops with Boal on many occasions, and they collaborated on The Art of Legislation, an Artangel-sponsored piece of Legislative Theatre at County Hall in London. He has taught this work in many contexts, throughout Britain and Ireland, and many places throughout the world, including master classes across Europe, Asia, South America, Australia and Africa. He is currently working on a book, The Art of the Joker. London Bubble (1989-1994) As Associate Director of London Bubble, a long-established London touring community theatre company, he directed a number of productions, including Once Upon a Time, Far Far from England by Farhana Sheikh, Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare and Too Much Too Young by Catherine Johnson, as well as a number of Forum Theatre projects with communities including Irish Travellers, deaf people, and adults with learning difficulties. Jackson first bought a book by Augusto Boal in 1976. He found The Theatre of the Oppressed ‘exciting but difficult to read,’ and skipped to the end to scan the few practical exercises offered almost as a postscript. In the late 1980s he encountered the work again, in workshops with Boal himself, and ended up inviting him to London to deliver a workshop at London Bubble, where he was working as Associate Director. At that time, though many theatre folk and activists were aware of The Theatre of the Oppressed, there had been no serious investigation of whether this methodology, invented in South America (if incubated during Boal’s exile in Lisbon and Paris, and subsequent trips around the world), would work in the UK. With the team at London Bubble, they applied in advance to London Arts Board for funds to put these principles into action, as Jackson explained ‘we created a list of the type of ‘oppressed’ groups that