Find a research supervisor in Drama and Theatre Arts

• The medicalised body in performance
• Anatomical dissection and bodily display as performance
• Medical humanities
• Politics of identity and performance
• Contemporary theatre practice and critical theory
• Live art Performance and interdisciplinary practice

• Immersive, interactive & participatory performance practices
• One-on-one performance
• Practice as research methodologies
• Performance documentation
• Performing heritage & legacy
• Gamification & play in performance

Key areas of research:

• Contemporary British and European playwriting
• The Royal Shakespeare Company and Shakespeare's Globe
• Theatre History and Historiography
• Shakespeare in performance

Key areas of research:

• Shakespeare on screen
• Representations of the theatre in film and in other media
• 19th century British Theatre

• Performance practice, especially acting/performer and directing methodologies
• Devising
• The Odin Teatret
• Performance and the environment (especially climate change)
• Practice as research

I am a practice-based scholar and I joined the department as a Teaching Fellow in September 2017, specialising in practically teaching theatre and performance. Besides being a university teacher and lecturer for over twelve years, I have been developing my practice as performance-maker, live artist and event curator since 2006.

At the University of Birmingham I have also set up creative, ...

• Samuel Beckett.
• Contemporary British theatre and performance.
• Performance and popular culture.

• Victorian theatre
• Performance practice (contemporary and historical)
• Popular theatre and performance
• All areas of theatre and music
• Technologies and performance

• Contemporary socio-political drama (British and European)
• Ancient Greek and Roman plays and their influence on British theatre
• Medieval and Renaissance drama
• Non-standard forms of contemporary drama and theatre
• Drama and narration
• Literary and cultural theory and networks
• Ethics and drama
• Post-postmodernism
• Intermediality

• Harold Pinter
• British alternative or fringe theatre
• Contemporary Shakespeare
• Arts Council
• Samuel Beckett

• Russian actor training, particularly Stanislavsky, Michael Chekhov, Meyerhold
• The history of Russian theatre of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
• The plays of Anton Chekhov
• Actor-training and Alexander  Technique