Staff in the Department of Theatre and Performance

Sola Adeyemi

Sola teaches on African theatre history, postcolonial theatre, culture and performance, and convenes MA World Theatres.

Simonetta Alessandri

Simonetta Alessandri is a dancer, teacher and choreographer, who uses improvisation as a teaching and research method.

Adam Alston

Adam’s research explores decadence and transgression in contemporary performance, as well as immersive theatre

Gail Babb

Gail Babb is a theatre maker, producer and lecturer who specialises in participatory arts, devising new work and supporting emerging artists.

Marcus Bell

Marcus is a queer dance(r)-scholar investigating the relationality of ancient, postmodern, and contemporary performance.

Danny Braverman

Danny is an award-winning playwright and storyteller, specialising in disability, community and young people’s theatre.

Philippa Burt

Philippa’s interests are the sociology of the theatre, ensemble companies, and twentieth-century British theatre.

Dr Ray Campbell

Ray teaches and researches stand-up comedy performance and its role in society

Sudip Chakroborthy

Clare Finburgh Delijani

I specialise in French, Francophone and UK theatre, examining how they engage with social, global and climate justice.

Ysabel Clare

Ysabel’s subject area is performance, specialising in acting, voice, presentation and communication skills.

Sara Clifford

Writer of over thirty plays, Sara writes site-specific plays located in local communities and teaches dramaturgy.

Steven Dykes

A lecturer, actor, director and playwright, Steven has worked extensively in the UK and USA bringing scripts to life.

Aphrodite Evangelatou

Aphrodite’s teaching practice focuses on transferring the knowledge that comes from physical theatre into more conventional forms of acting, encouraging artistic flexibility while preparing students for a wide range of performance genres and future collaborators.

Cass Fleming

Cass’s specialism is the use of play in actor training and theatre making, exploring the work of Suzanne Bing and Michael Chekhov.

Anna Furse

Research includes issues of the body: hysterias and trauma, touch practices, death and dying, performance and medicine

Luis Garcia

Luis is a specialist in vocal pedagogy and is the Supervising Tutor in Singing Voice Technique.

Robert Gordon

Gordon’s research has used his own experiences to focus on the relationship between practice and critical reflection.

Fiona Graham

Dr Fiona Graham is an artist/scholar with research interests in dramaturgy and performance development.

Katja Hilevaara

Katja is a practitioner-researcher, whose work includes performance, installation and writing, and engages with memory and contemporary performance.

Florian J Seubert

Florian's interests are interdisciplinary and his teaching follows a practice-oriented, hands-on approach when discussing and analysing cultural theory.

Olaf Jubin

Pamela Karantonis

Pamela has always been intrigued by disruptive genres of art and considers the theatre to be at its best when it fills this remit.

Natalie Katsou

Acting, Theatre and Performance, Performance Philosophy and Theory, Contemporary Dramaturgy, Directing, Devising

Ben Levitas

Ben’s research connects modern Irish literature and theatre with its cultural and political history, specialising in W. B. Yeats.

Dafne Louzioti

Dafne works and teaches across performance, theatre, dance and martial arts, focusing on the body and power relationships.

Sue Mayo

Sue has worked extensively in community theatre, focussing on intergenerational and cross-cultural settings.

Graeme Miller

Graeme Miller is an artist whose work has taken various forms, from performance, installation, video and sound.

Tiziana Morosetti

Tiziana specialises in African Theatre and representations of race, Blackness and the ‘Other’ in British theatre.

Rachael Newberry

Rachael's research interests are in the intersections between Post-War British Drama, Feminism and Eco- Criticism.

Osita Okagbue

Osita’s research interests are in African theatre and performance, Caribbean theatre and postcolonial theatre.

Dr Vanio Papadelli

Through movement and physical theatre, Vanio's work engages with senses, memory and physical storytelling.

Nick Parkin

An award-winning composer, Nick specialises in environmental and site based sound and performance.

Dr Owen Parry

Live Art and Performance; Contemporary Art; Digital Networks; Queer, Feminist, Post-colonial Practices; and New Material

Phoebe Patey-Ferguson

Phoebe’s research expertise is on international theatre festivals, rooted in the Sociology of Theatre and Performance.

Alexa Reid

Alexa is a cross-disciplinary artist who makes work in the margins between theatre, live art and installation.

Bradley Rogers

Bradley Rogers focuses on creative and critical approaches to musical theatre, gender, sexuality, & performance theory.

Catherine Rosario

Catherine’s research focusses on the meeting points between popular art forms, canonical works and the avant-garde.

Göze Saner

Göze is a performer, researcher and clown whose research focuses on the philosophy and politics of performer training.

Miles Thompson

Miles’ specialism is gay camp practice with interests in queerness, gay theatre, historical and drag performance.

Andrea Tuijten

Andrea's work and passion hold a focus on facilitating interfaith encounters through theatre, critical pedagogy and youth activism, multi-arts and creative educational approaches.

Mischa Twitchin

Mischa's interests include European theatres of the avant-garde; Afro-European cultural politics; historical-theoretical questions of empathy and mimesis; Performance Philosophy; Memory Studies.