Commentators

Bella Merlin

Commentator

Bella Merlin has a PhD from the University of Birmingham and is an actor, writer and actor-trainer. She has now been acting for 25 years, and her roles have included seasons at the National Theatre.

Smeliansky C1
Anatoly Smeliansky
by Bella Merlin
Bella Merlin draws together the threads of insight into Smeliansky’s work, Stanislavsky and Russian theatre contained in the RPA’s six resources featuring the Head of the Moscow Art Theatre School.
Jean C1
Jean Benedetti
by Bella Merlin
Bella Merlin describes Benedetti’s ‘critical role in the English-language dissemination of Stanislavsky’s history and practice’, and the relationship between Benedetti’s comments and her own work.