Patrick Spottiswoode joined Shakespeare’s Globe in 1984 and became founding Director, Globe Education in 1989.  Globe Education now engages 23 full-time staff, over 60 part-time practitioners and welcomes over 100,000 people a year of all ages and nationalities for workshops, projects, events and courses. In 1995 he initiated a 30 year project to stage readings and record all surviving plays by Shakespeare’s contemporaries.  In 2004 he directed a two year programme of events celebrating Shakespeare and Islam. Since 2007, Globe Education has been mounting annual professional productions created especially for over 30,000 young people who all receive free tickets. Patrick has co-directed several academic conferences both at the Globe and abroad.  He is currently working on a book on Goethe on Shakespeare and collaborating on the design and building of a new Globe Education and Rehearsal Centre. He recently contributed a chapter to Shakespeare’s Globe: A Theatrical Experiment (Cambridge University Press 2008). Patrick also produces the now annual publication of the Globe Folio facsimiles. He sits on the Executive Committee of the Shakespeare Theatre Association of America and is organising their annual conference to be held at the Globe in 2010.  Patrick has been appointed President of the Shakespeare Club, the oldest Shakespeare society in the world, for 2009-2010.