Artistic Director of Donmar Warehouse returns to Cornwall to share industry insight

As part of University College Falmouth's Professorial Lecture Series, theatre director, producer, actor and current Artistic Director of London's Donmar Warehouse, Michael Grandage, will be visiting the university college on Thursday 29 October to share his wide range of thoughts and experience in conversation with Tim Brinkman, Director of the Hall for Cornwall.

Michael grew up in Cornwall, and has won every major theatre award with productions ranging from European classical repertoire to new plays and musicals. He has also worked with many of the UK's leading actors, including Kenneth Branagh, Jude Law and Joseph Fiennes.

"The aim of UCF's Professorial Lecture series is to produce an engaging and challenging public programme that stimulates the intellectual curiosity of our staff, students and alumni; our research collaborators; our industry partners; our local communities and other supporters," explains UCF's Deputy Rector, Professor Geoff Smith. "We are delighted to provide our creative community with the opportunity to hear resident and visiting professors share their insights, provoke debate and redefine creative excellence in the process, and hope that as many people as possible will attend."

The event is open to the public and will take place at 6.30pm on Thursday 29 October in the Chapel Lecture Theatre at the Tremough Campus in Penryn. Tickets are free and are available from The Poly in Falmouth's Church Street either by collection from the Box Office or by calling 01326 212300 to reserve.

UCF's autumn term programme of Professorial Lectures will continue with award-winning Artistic; interactive media pioneer and Managing Director of Illumina Digital, Andrew Chitty on Wednesday 11 November and UCF's resident Professor of Illustration, Alan Male on Thursday 26 November.

For further information about University College Falmouth's Professorial Lecture Series, visit www.falmouth.ac.uk/events

University College Falmouth is the only independent Higher Education institution in Cornwall with the powers to award degrees in its own name. It has two campuses in Cornwall - at Woodlane in Falmouth and Tremough in Penryn (which it owns, and jointly manages with the University of Exeter) - and a third campus at Totnes in Devon, following its merger with Dartington College of Arts in 2008.

This merger created a new institution focusing on the expansion of Falmouth's expertise in Art, Design and Media and Dartington's expertise in Choreography, Music, Theatre, Art and Writing. The Devon-based courses will relocate to a new, high-specification Performance Centre at Tremough in 2010, paving the way for a new specialist Arts University in Cornwall by 2012/2013 that will be unique to the South West.

The College is a founding partner in the Combined Universities in Cornwall (CUC), a unique initiative to promote regional economic regeneration through Higher Education, funded mainly by the European Union (Objective One), the South West Regional Development Agency, and the Higher Education Funding Council for England, with support from Cornwall Council.

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For further information about University College Falmouth, please contact Jilly Easterby MCIPR, Head of Public Affairs, Telephone: 01326 213792, or email: jilly.easterby@falmouth.ac.uk

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