Sir Barry Jackson was the founder and visionary of the Birmingham Repertory Theatre. He steered the company from its
amateur formation in the early 1900s through to its establishment as a leading dramatic theatre on a national scale.
His hands-on approach to all aspects of the theatre world, driven by his passion for credible and non-commercial play
writing, delivered productions of exceptional quality. Taken from https://www.birmingham.gov.uk/, "About Sir Barry Jackson".
In 1954 Professor Allardyce Nicoll
and Sir BarryJackson admitted Jack to the Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-on-Avon to start his MA and later Ph.D.
The Shakespeare Institute is a special graduate division of the University
of Birmingham, England located in Mason Croft, an historic building at Stratford in the heart of
Shakespeare country. Sir Barry Jackson helped finance the opening of the Shakespeare Institute.
