Staff in Drama and Theatre Arts 

Academic staff

Dr Vicky Angelaki

Lecturer in Drama

I joined the University of Birmingham as Lecturer in Drama in September 2012. Prior to that I held appointments at Birmingham City University (FT permanent, Lecturer in English and Drama) and Royal Holloway, University of London (PT visiting, Drama and English). My fully-funded Doctoral study (PhD Department of Drama and Theatre, Royal Holloway, 2009) focused on defamiliarization in the ...

Dr Marissia Fragkou

Dr Marissia Fragkou

Teaching Fellow in Drama

My research focuses on contemporary theatre and performance, women’s theatre, critical and performance theory. My teaching specialisms further include actor training practices (particularly Stanislavsky) and the modernist avant-garde.

Fraser Grace

Fraser Grace

Teaching Fellow in Playwriting Studies, Department of Drama and Theatre Arts

Fraser is co-ordinator of the MRes in Playwriting Studies.

Dr Eleftheria Ioannidou

Lecturer in Drama

I joined the Department of Drama and Theatre Arts in 2012. Prior to this appointment, I held a Humboldt Research Fellowship at the Freie Universität of Berlin, hosted by the departments of Theatre Studies (Erika Fischer-Lichte) and Greek and Latin Studies (Bernd Seidensticker), where I also lectured extensively.

Professor Russell Jackson

Professor Russell Jackson

Allardyce Nicoll Chair in Drama

Russell Jackson’s work focuses on the relationships between text and performance – particularly but not exclusively of Shakespeare’s plays – in their social and intellectual context and in a wide range of media. He is currently engaged in studies of the representation fo the theatre in the other arts.

His research is informed by (and informs) his ...

Dr Adam J. Ledger

Dr Adam J. Ledger

Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Arts

Following a period of freelance work as a director and tutor in and around London, I was appointed as the first Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Studies at University College Cork, Ireland, in 2001. I moved to the University of Hull in January 2005 and to the University of Birmingham in 2011.

 

Dr Caroline Radcliffe

Dr Caroline Radcliffe

Lecturer

I have had a long freelance career in music and drama and am still an active performer in both fields. My specialist academic areas are nineteenth-century theatre and popular theatre studies and I am also currently engaged in work on the history of technology and performance.

Dr Liz Tomlin

Dr Liz Tomlin

Lecturer


Dr Rose Whyman

Dr Rose Whyman

Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Arts
Head of Department

I have lectured here in the Department of Drama and Theatre Arts since 2003 and my main teaching and research interests are in actor-training and Russian Theatre.

Production and support staff

  • Linda Muirhead - Stage Manager
  • Daniel Warboys - Production Manager
  • David Crisp - Scenic and Costume Designer
  • Lucy Nye - Costume Supervisor
  • Jayne Smith - Administrator
  • Bonnie Graham - Administrator

Honorary Professor

  • Professor David Edgar