Rod Dungate is a performed, published and broadcast award-winning playwright and poet living in Birmingham. He regularly performs his own poetry. With a different hat on he works as an education specialist working and advising at primary, secondary levels and in higher and continuing education.

He enjoys working across art forms and has frequently worked with composers, writing songs for inclusion in theatre plays and poems specifically to be set to music, at the moment writing a musical. Rod has organised a number of events to celebrate the work presented in Birmingham's Art Gallery B Poets Off the Wall, Writing on Water (based around work in the Water Hall) and Surrealist Poetry (to coincide with the exhibition of work of Birmingham Surrealist Painters.)

He regularly teaches undergraduate acting students at the Birmingham School of Acting and also Art and Design students at Birmingham City University. Through his partnership, Personal Performance, he works as a training and education specialist in creativity.

Rod is co-editor of the one of the biggest and busiest theatre review sites; ReviewsGate.com and he is the Labour Prospective Candidate for Edgbaston Ward in Birmingham for the local elections in May. 
Read his blog at http://roddungate.blogspot.com/.