The department specialises in practice research research, as well as critical and creative collaborations with theatre-makers and artists.
Through engaging in a variety of creative and critical collaborations, work in the department explores actor-training and directing methodologies; Live Art practice; theatre for young audiences; and immersive, interactive and participatory practices. This is framed by an engagement with the theorisations and methodologies of practice research and performance documentation.
Lecturer
- Immersive, interactive & participatory performance practices
- One-on-one performance
- Practice research methodologies
- Performance documentation
- Performing heritage & legacy
- Gamification & play in performance
Assistant Professor in Performance and Creative Practices
I am new to the department, teaching across theory and practice and leading the new MA in Performance Practices: Applied Artists. My specialisms include applied, autobiographical and multilingual performance practices. I am currently most connected to South African theatre and performance artists and activists, articulating new dramaturgies and frameworks for sustainable global collaboration. ...
Reader in Theatre and Performance
- Performance practice, especially acting/performer and directing methodologies
- Devising
- The Odin Teatret
- Performance and the environment (especially climate change)
- Practice research
Teaching Fellow
- Postdramatic theatre
- Devising
- Autobiographical performance
- Live art practices
- Practice as research
- Dramaturgy
Reader in Drama and Performance
- Victorian theatre
- Performance practice (contemporary and historical)
- Popular theatre and performance
- All areas of theatre and music
- Technologies and performance