Jeffrey Grenfell-Hill Author

Jeffrey Grenfell-Hill trained for the professional theatre at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, where he was chosen as student director in his final year. After a tour of American colleges, universities and performing arts centres, he was invited to join the examining board of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Jeffrey’s poems have been included in Penguin and Heinemann anthologies, his plays have been published by Samuel French, and his monologues by Oberon Books in an anthology edited by Shaun McKenna. In 2019, Jeffrey published Monologues and Duologues for Young Actors, which offered drama teachers wider scene choice for the seven to thirteen age group. His popular monologues and duologues have been regularly chosen for the LAMDA examination acting syllabus as set pieces. They are often performed as ‘own choice’ selections at major festivals of speech and drama. Jeffrey himself is an adjudicator of many years’ standing; this aspect of his career began when he was a member of the Board of Adjudicators at the Wyoming State Youth Drama Festival. Jeffrey widened his career interests by reading history at Swansea University. This has inspired him to write more historical scenes; and has contributed to a belief in the complementarity of understanding history and drama. These scenes offer cross-curricular opportunities to teachers. In 1994 Jeffrey was awarded a PhD in History by the University of Wales for work on the welfare of women and children in Wales from 1890 to 1930. He was also Director of Sixth Form Studies at St George’s School, Harpenden, where he taught AS and A level Theatre Studies. Jeffrey remains an examiner for the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and examines both in the United Kingdom and internationally.