● Teaching and Research
Participatory Research Curator. Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance, April 2022- Ongoing
Tutor. Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance, BA Theatre Studies Online: Beyond the Stage/Performance Artists at Work/Topics in Contemporary Theatre, January 2021-Ongoing
Module Year Coordinator. Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance, MA/MFA (various programmes): Performative Writing, September 2017-Ongoing
Artist in Residence & Lecturer. City, University of London, MA/MSc Library and Information Science, September 2017-September 2021
Senior Tutor. Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, MA Creative Producing: Cultural Ecology, August 2019-January 2020
Clive Barker Research Fellow. Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance, April-October 2018
Research Associate. ZU-UK Theatre and Digital Arts Company, January 2017-July 2018
Research Assistant. Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance, October 2014 -October 2018
Research Assistant. CEDAR Project. University of East London, June 2010-February 2011
● Additional Teaching Experience
Guest Tutor. BA European Theatre Arts: Dissertation Project, Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance, May-July 2022
Guest Tutor. MA Creative Lighting: Performative Writing, Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance, March 2022
Guest Tutor. BA Design, Management, and Technical Arts (various programmes): Critical Analysis, Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance, February 2022
Guest Tutor. MA/MFA Contemporary Directing Practice: Postdramatic Theatre, Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance, December 2021
Visiting Lecturer. BA European Theatre Arts: Dissertation Project, Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance, April-June 2020
Guest Tutor. BA European Theatre Arts: Dissertation Project, Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance, April-June 2019
Guest Tutor. MA/MFA Contemporary Performance Practices, University of East London, January-April 2019
Guest Tutor. BA Acting: Research Contexts, Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance, November 2018
Guest Tutor. BA European Theatre Arts: Performance Research, Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance, November 2018
Visiting Lecturer. MA/MFA Contemporary Performance Practices: Contemporary Performance Making, University of East London, October 2018
Visiting Lecturer. MA/MFA Actor and Performer Training: Final Independent Project, University of East London, June-October 2018
Visiting Lecturer. MA/MFA Acting and Directing: Performance Lab, University of East London, March 2018
Visiting Lecturer. MA Theatre Criticism and Dramaturgy: Archiving Practices, Practising Archives. Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, May 2012
Guest Tutor. Continuing Professional Practice Class on Stanislavski, Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance, April 2012
Visiting Lecturer. MA English Studies: Issues in Theatre Research, University of Nottingham, December 2011
Visiting Lecturer. University of East London, BA and MA/MFA (various programmes and modules), February 2010-October 2011
Professional Practice
Peer reviewer. The Future of Culture’s Powerhouses: On the Accessibility, Viability, and Design
of Hybrid Performance. Finnish Theatre Research Society, July 2022
Convener. Gaming Democracy Webinar Series. Rose Bruford College and University of East London (online), 13 April-14 June 2022
Peer reviewer. Reframing Performance’s Ontology: Hybridity in Contemporary Performance Art’s Ontology. International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, January 2022
Convener. DocPerform: Internet Theatre. Webinar. City, University of London (online), 16 February 2021
Convener. DocPerform 4: Curating Immersive Documents. Symposium as part of the DRHA Annual Conference: Situating Digital Curation: Locating Creative Practice and Research between Digital Humanities and the Arts. University of Salford (online), 6 September 2020
Convener. DocPerform 3: Postdigital. Symposium. City, University of London, 16 May 2019
Convener. DocPerform 2: New Technologies. Symposium. City, University of London, 6-7 November 2017
Convener. DocPerform: The Future of Documents. Symposium. City, University of London, 31 October 2016
Artist (with Tracing the Pathway). PSi 21: Fluid States North – Performances of Unknowing. Telematic Conference. Kuntsmuseum, Nuuk, 18-21 June 2015
Artist (with Tracing the Pathway). LAPSody 2015: Emergent, Emergence, Emergency. Festival. University of the Arts, Helsinki, 27-30 May 2015
Artist (with Tracing the Pathway). Performing the Archive: Body Site Encounter. Workshop. University of Bristol, 2-3 February 2013
Artist (with Tracing the Pathway). Performing the Archive: Body Site Encounter. Workshop. University of Aberystwyth, 10-11 November 2012
Curator (with ZU-UK Theatre and Digital Arts company). The Audience as Document. Performance Exhibition. Oi Futuro Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 10 September 2011
Curator (with ZU-UK Theatre and Digital Arts company). The Audience as Document. Performance Exhibition. Summerhall, Edinburgh, 8-26 August 2011
Curator (with ZU-UK Theatre and Digital Arts company). Audience as Document. Performance Exhibition. UEL IPAD Centre, London, 20 April 2011
Curator (with ZU-UK Theatre and Digital Arts company). Audience as Document. Performance Exhibition. V&A Museum, London, 25 March 2011
Qualifications
Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance. Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education: Theatre and Performing Arts (predicted), October 2020-October 2022
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, April 2012
University of Lincoln. PhD in Drama, October 2011-February 2015
University of Exeter. MA in Theatre Practice: Distinction, October 2008-July 2009
University of Exeter. BA (Hons) in Drama: First, October 2003-July 2006
Publications
Hacking the Archives: The 2012 Olympic Legacy, Fun Palaces and Game Theatre (book chapter). In Fryer, P. and Jones, N. (eds). Clive Barker and his Legacy: Theatre Workshop, Theatre Games. London: Methuen, 2022
Internet Theatre and the Historical Consciousness of the Covid-19 Era (journal article). International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, [Available online:
https://doi.org/10.1080/14794713.2021.2005331], 2021
Networked Audience Participation: The Futurity of Post-Brexit Democracy in One Day, Maybe and Operation Black Antler (journal article). Studies in Theatre and Performance. Performance and The Right: Strategies and Subterfuges, 41 (1), 2021
Documenting Performance: The Contexts & Processes of Digital Curation and Archiving (book review). International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media. Affiliated Issue TaPRA Performance and New Technologies Working Group: Inclusive Intermedialities, 16 (2), 2020
The Post-Immersive Manifesto (journal article co-authored with Jorge Lopes Ramos, Persis Jadé Maravala and Bart Simon). International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media. Affiliated Issue TaPRA Performance and New Technologies Working Group: Inclusive Intermedialities, 16 (2), 2020
Crisis Acting in The Destroyed Room (journal article). Performance Research. Staging the Wreckage, 24 (5), 2019
Body Brain Bingo Evaluation: A Practice as Research project Investigating Interdisciplinary Collaborations Between Academics, Artists and Activists Towards Projects Addressing Mental Health and Well-Being (research report co-authored with Jorge Lopes Ramos, Clare Qualmann and Persis Jadé Maravala). Submitted to UCL Culture, 2018
Is the World After All Just a Dream? (editorial co-authored with Lyn Robinson). Proceedings from the Document Academy, 5 (1), 2018
Imagined Theatres: Writings for a Theoretical Stage (book review). Drama Research 8 (1), 2018
Good Night, Sleep Tight (Remix) (journal article co-authored with Jorge Lopes Ramos and Persis Jadé Maravala). International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media. Performance and VR Practice; New Work for New Environments, 14 (2), 2018
Reality Theatre (journal article). International Arts Manager, 13 (8), 2017
Poor Traces of the Room: The Live Archive at the Library (journal article co-authored with Anna Makrzanowska). Performance Research. On Libraries, 22 (2), 2017
Encounters with the Russian Avant-Garde (book review). Stanislavski Studies 5 (2), 2017
The Beckett Collection at the University of Reading (journal article). Stanislavski Studies, 4 (3), 2016
Dramaturging Personal Narratives: Who Am I and Where is Here? (book review). Stanislavski Studies 4 (1), 2016
Stanislavski on Stage: The Benedetti Legacy (journal article). Stanislavski Studies, 3 (2), 2015
The Archive is Present (journal article). Desearch, 3, 2013
Mad Blud: A London Story (research report co-authored with Dominic Hingorani). Submitted to Theatre Royal Stratford East and the University of East London, 2011
Performing the Archive: Considering the Performing Arts Archive as a Tool and Provocation for Theatre Practice (research report). Submitted to JISC, 2011
Conference Papers
From Corporeal Flesh to Bio-Techno Hybrids: Internet Theatre and the Historical Consciousness of the Covid-19 Crisis. Changing Perspectives on Live Performance. Anglia Ruskin University (online), 8-9 October 2021
Internet Theatre: A Postmedia Analysis of To Be A Machine and Rich Kids: A History of Shopping Malls in Tehran. IFTR Galway: Theatre Ecologies: Environment, Sustainability and Politics. University of Galway (online), 12-16 July 2021
Documenting Internet Theatre. Staging Viral Theatres. Viral Theatres Project, Free University, and the Humboldt University Berlin (online), 1 July 2021
Immersive Perspectivalism: Theatre in the Information Age. Zip-Scene. Analogue and Digital Immersive Spaces: Interactive Narratives – the Future of Storytelling and Immersion in Mixed Reality Mediums and Performing Arts. Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest, 10-12 November 2019
Immersive Perspectivalism: Theatre in the Information Age. Digital Performance and Documentation: Archives of Liveness and Absence. University of Galway, 24 October 2019
Communities of Crisis: Digital Spaces, Crisis Acting and Media Wreckage in The Destroyed Room. DRHA: Radical Immersions. Navigating between Virtual/Physical Environments and Information Bubbles. Watermans Arts Centre, 8-10 September 2019
Trans-Participation in the Infosphere. DocPerform 3: Postdigital. City, University of London, 16 May 2019
Towards a Post Immersive Manifesto. TaPRA: Immersive and Interactive Technologies and Live Performance VR/MR/AR Practices. University of South Wales, 6 April 2019
Invisible Spectacles. Critical Care: Audience in Immersive, Interactive and One-on-One Performance. London South Bank University, 31 March 2018
The DocPerform Project. Performance and Culture: Cities, Embodiments, Technologies. University of Malta, 7-9 March 2018
Secret Cinema and Hybridised Dystopias. TaPRA Annual Conference. University of Bristol, 5-7 September 2016
What is a Real Document, Anyway? 21 Century Research and Performance. University of Malta, 9-11 March 2016
Keeping Research Live. Intersections: Performance (…) Research. Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, 14-15 January 2016
The Live Has a Legacy. TaPRA: People and Processes: Behind the Scenes of Theatre and Performance. University of Manchester, 7 February 2015
Reimagining the Future Cityscape: How the Archive can Shatter the Olympic Dream. TaPRA Annual Conference. Royal Holloway, University of London, 3-5 September 2014
The Future of the Ruin. TaPRA Annual Conference. Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 4-6 September 2013
Encounters with Site, Memory and Performance: A Structured Discussion of Tracing the Pathway’s Methodology. Performing Documents. University of Bristol, 12-14 April 2013
Creating a Continuity of Performance Presence in the Archive. On Performativity. University of Wolverhampton, 14-15 June 2012
Navigating Kane’s City: Speakers in Crave as Fragments of Memory. Sarah Kane Symposium. University of Lincoln, 24 March 2012
Remembering the Past to Create the Future: The Audience as Document. Creative Exchanges: Performing Research. Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, 19-20 January 2012