Will Tosh is interim Director of Education (Higher Education and Research) at Shakespeare’s Globe, London. He teaches, writes about, and researches the literature and culture of Shakespeare’s England, and with Lucy Cuthbertson he leads the Globe’s education department.

Will’s work at the Globe also includes dramaturgy, new writing development and public engagement in person, in the media and online.

He is the author of Straight Acting: The Many Queer Lives of William Shakespeare (2024), Playing Indoors: Staging Early Modern Drama in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse (2018), and Male Friendship and Testimonies of Love in Shakespeare’s England (2016), which revealed the intimate social circle of the Elizabethan spy Anthony Bacon.