Adrian Jackson MBE is a theatre-maker, activist, translator and teacher, with a particular expertise in the Theatre of the Oppressed. He translated five books by Augusto Boal into English and collaborated with him on many occasions in the 1990s and 2000s. He was also the founder director of a distinguished UK based theatre company, Cardboard Citizens, which made work with homeless people for over 30 years, touring Forum Theatre widely in the UK and abroad, and collaborating with organisations as diverse as the Royal Shakespeare Company and Shelter. He stepped down from that organization in 2021, starting a new formation, The School of Theatre of the Oppressed (STOP) and working on other theatre projects. Notable recent projects include a large-scale musical for Coventry City of Culture and a version of King Lear for Auckland Festival in Aotearoa/NZ. His feature length film, Here For Life, won a special mention at Locarno Film Festival.