Broderick Chow
Broderick Chow is a lecturer and researcher at the Institute for Performing Arts Development, University of East London with interests in popular performance in relation to political change and mobilisation, and performance as ideological critique. His recently completed practice-as-research PhD thesis, ‘How to do things with jokes: relocating the political dimension of performance comedy’ is the first PhD to be awarded by the Central School of Speech & Drama, University of London. His practice includes solo performance, public intervention, installation and stand-up comedy, with five years on the UK comedy circuit. Current research projects include investigating comic and satirical influences in the rhetoric of American politicians, parkour in relation to the physical architecture of global finance, and the economy of labour and work in musical theatre.
