Tuesday, July 12th, 2011
Silvija Jesrovic is associate professor in the School of Theatre, Performance and Cultural Policy at the University of Warwick and a playwright. She is the author of Theatre of Estrangement: Theory, Practice, Ideology (University of Toronto Press, 2006). Recently, she co-edited, with Yana Meerzon, the monograph Performance, Exile, ‘America’ (Palgrave Mcmillan 2009). Her articles appeared in numerous journals including Research in Drama Education, Substance, Modern Drama, New Theatre Quarterly, Canadian Theatre Review, Balagan, and others. Currently, she has been completing her book Performance, Space, Utopia: Cities of War, Cities of Exile (forthcoming in 2012). Silvija’s latest play Not My Story opened in Toronto in 2004.
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Tuesday, July 12th, 2011
Dan Rebellato is professor of contemporary theatre at Royal Holloway, University of London, where he teaches on the theatre, philosophy and creative writing degree programmes. He has published Theatre & Globalization, 1956 and All That, Contemporary European Theatre Directors, and numerous articles on contemporary theatre, playwriting, theatre and philosophy. He is also a playwright and his plays and performance texts for stage and radio include Chekhov in Hell, Static, My Life Is a Series of People Saying Goodbye, Mile End, Beachy Head, Cavalry, Outright Terror Bold and Brilliant, and Theatremorphosis.
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Friday, July 8th, 2011
Simon Shepherd is Deputy Principal (academic) at Central School of Speech & Drama and Director of Programmes, with responsibility for all learning and teaching, research, outreach and technical support. Previously he was Professor of Drama at Goldsmiths, University of London, and before that Professor of Drama at the University of Nottingham. His current research project is concerned with the craft of directing (for a Reader for Palgrave) and his interest in bodies and theatre is now being extended into an exploration of the relationship between (staged) body and national identity. His most recent publications include: 2010 associate editor with Simon Donger, and ORLAN, ORLAN: A Hybrid Body of Artworks London: Routledge; 2010 ‘The Matter of ORLAN’ in ORLAN: A Hybrid Body of Artworks London: Routledge; 2010 with Mick Wallis, Studying Plays (third edition) London: Bloomsbury
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Friday, July 8th, 2011
Lynne Kendrick is a lecturer in drama at Central School of Speech & Drama (CSSD) and teaches on BA DATE and MA Theatre Studies (Performance in the City). She is also a founder and director of Camden People’s Theatre, a north London venue that produces contemporary theatre and has a history of exploring emergent applied theatre practices including verbatim theatre, intergenerational, intercultural and interdisciplinary practices. Lynne was a fellow of CSSD’s Centre for Excellence in Training for Theatre exploring emergent graduate training and production opportunities and she managed the School’s graduate company residency scheme ‘Central Companies’. Lynne recently published in TDPT on actor training and she is co-editor, with Dr. David Roesner of Theatre Noise: the sound of performance due for publication in 2011.
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Thursday, July 7th, 2011
Experience Bryon is a graduate of NYC High School of Performing Arts and Monash University, Australia, and has had a ten year professional career in performance as a singer, dancer and actor in opera, film, TV, theatre, and musical theatre. She started teaching at Central in 2006 as a lecturer in performance and directing and now leads the MA Performance Practices and Research. Prior to this, Experience was Director of Performing Arts at KBCC, City University of New York and has taught at the Australian Academy of Music and Auckland University. She was Artistic Director of the Front Room in Australia and has directed and choreographed for opera throughout Australia, New Zealand and the US. She is a practicing, classical singer, choreographer and director and served in recent years as Artistic Director of Experience Vocal Dance Company. She has published numerous articles in the the areas of voice, movement and acting and her upcoming book, Integrative Performance: Practice and Theory for the Interdisciplinary Performer, will be published next year by Routledge.
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Wednesday, July 6th, 2011
Tony Fisher, conference co-curator.
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Wednesday, July 6th, 2011
Roberto Sánchez-Camus is from Chile/USA. His work focuses on participation, community, urbanism, politics through a variety of time-based media. He has developed assemblages of creative individuals in Coalition of Creative Artists in 2000, Blank Collective in 2003 and currently Lotos Collective of London (founded in 2006). Through Lotos he directs and devises site-responsive projects in the UK and abroad while maintaining a solo live artist practice along side this. Past creative residencies include Hoxton Hall Rebirth, London 2011; Rifrazioni Festival, Italy 2010; Zoukak Cultural Centre Beirut, Lebanon 2009; Youth Visions, Ghana, West Africa 2008; O’Theatrone, Naples, Italy 2007. He was awarded a BFA in Visual Arts from School of Visual Arts in New York and an MA Scenography from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London. Roberto is currently awaiting to defend his doctorate dissertation in Applied Live Art completed under the supervision of Fiona Templeton at Brunel University.
www.camusliveart.net
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Tuesday, July 5th, 2011
Stephen Farrier is a senior lecturer and course leader in drama, applied theatre and education at Central School of Speech & Drama. He studied Humanities (Drama) at Leicester University and Modern Drama Studies at the University of North London and received his PhD in 2002 with a thesis focussing on theorising a queer reading praxis. Stephen began his career working in the community at Camden People’s Theatre as a project director, whilst teaching on a sessional basis at a number of colleges and universities. His academic work focuses on the politics of theatre and performance and its relation to representation and identity. The production work he does with students is based around issues of identity, theatrical form and representation. Research and practice work are centered around post war/contemporary theatre and focus on gender, gender and theatre, queer theory, and the postdramatic. Stephen has written and presented to conferences on sexuality and television soap opera, gender variance, queer, Sarah Kane and the new brutalists, studio performance and praxis, as well as queer takes on the formation of acting. His current work explores form and its relation to the political.
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Tuesday, July 5th, 2011
Alison Forsyth is a lecturer in theatre studies in the Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies at Aberystwyth University. She is the author of Gadamer, History and the Classics (2002) and co-editor of Get Real: Documentary Theatre Past and Present (2009). Amongst other projects, she is currently writing a book titled Arthur Miller's Holocaust Plays: The Trauma of Articulation
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Tuesday, July 5th, 2011
Oladipo Agboluaje is a writer, whose plays include: Early Morning (Futuretense/Oval House) Mother Courage and her Children (adaptation, Eclipse Theatre, national tour) The Estate (Tiata Fahodzi), God is a DJ, Knock Against My Heart (Theatre Centre), For One Night Only (PBAB), British-ish (New Wolsey Youth Theatre), Captain Britain (New Wolsey/Talawa)The Christ of Coldharbour Lane (Soho Theatre), The Hounding of David Oluwale (adaptation, Eclipse Theatre, national tour), Iya-Ile – The First Wife (Tiata Fahodzi, Soho Theatre), The Garbage King (adaptation, Unicorn Theatre).
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Tuesday, July 5th, 2011
Ian Palmer is currently visiting professor of military psychiatry at King’s College, Institute of Psychiatry, London. He spent 25 years in the British army, half as regimental medical officer mainly to infantry regiments (including 4 years as the SAS doctor). He was the first psychiatrist to British UN Forces in Bosnia 1993/4 and Rwanda 1994 and was also the first (only) tri-service professor of military psychiatry 1996-2003. For 4 years he worked as the head of the UK Medical Assessment Programme (MAP) providing mental health assessments for UK veterans (consultations without limit of time). During this time he saw 350 cases (which amounts to about 1000 hours of face to face consultations). He is an adviser to Veterans’ Aid, the pre-eminent charity for homeless veterans in UK and has also been a service user with post-traumatic mental illness.
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Tuesday, July 5th, 2011
Amanda Stuart Fisher is a senior lecturer at Central School of Speech & Drama. Prior to coming to Central in 1999, Amanda taught drama and dance at a secondary school in Haringey, before moving into the field of theatre education in 1996 when she worked as Education Coordinator at the Royal Court Theatre. She subsequently worked freelance as an applied theatre specialist on a number of projects, including playwriting in schools at Hoxton Hall (funded by Carlton) and Seven Sacraments by Neil Bartlett (Artangel/Gloria Theatre Company, 1998). In 1997-1998 she also worked as a drama workshop leader at a mental health centre in East London. Amanda‘s areas of research and practcie include: playwriting, verbatim theatre and theatre of testimony. Her applied theatre work is both practical and theoretical, focusing currently on the use of stories derived from lived experience and the ethics of practice
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Tuesday, July 5th, 2011
Nando Messias has recently gained his doctorate’s degree at the Central School of Speech & Drama. The main focus of his research has been the intersections between the social and the performance elements of the sissy body, abuse and space. He is originally from Brazil, where he graduated in Dramatic Arts in 2000. Nando also holds an MA in Performance from the Central School of Speech & Drama, where he has worked as a visiting lecturer. Since moving to Britain, he has worked extensively in the East London cabaret scene. He is a founder member of the Eat Your Heart Out Collective and has been working as a performer and as a movement director for the Theo Adams Company, with whom he has performed in Tokyo, at the ICA in London and in Austria. In 2009, Nando appeared alongside Vaginal Davis in Bruce La Bruce’s theatrical production of The Bad Breast in Berlin.
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