Staff in the Department of Theatre and Performance
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Staff list
Sola Adeyemi
s.adeyemi (@gold.ac.uk)
Sola teaches on African theatre history, postcolonial theatre, culture and performance, and convenes MA World Theatres.
Simonetta Alessandri
drama (@gold.ac.uk)
Simonetta Alessandri is a dancer, teacher and choreographer, who uses improvisation as a teaching and research method.
Danny Braverman
drama (@gold.ac.uk)
Danny is an award-winning playwright and storyteller, specialising in disability, community and young people’s theatre.
Philippa Burt
p.burt (@gold.ac.uk)
Philippa’s interests are the sociology of the theatre, ensemble companies, and twentieth-century British theatre.
Clare Finburgh Delijani
c.finburgh (@gold.ac.uk)
My research asks how theatre from across Europe and the Caribbean responds to issues such as social, global and climate injustice and war, and how it might stage multiculturalism and community.
Ysabel Clare
drama (@gold.ac.uk)
Ysabel’s subject area is performance, specialising in acting, voice, presentation and communication skills.
Sara Clifford
s.clifford (@gold.ac.uk)
Writer of over thirty plays, Sara writes site-specific plays located in local communities and teaches dramaturgy.
Steven Dykes
drama (@gold.ac.uk)
A lecturer, actor, director and playwright, Steven has worked extensively in the UK and USA bringing scripts to life.
Aphrodite Evangelatou
a.evangelatou (@gold.ac.uk)
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
c.fleming (@gold.ac.uk)
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
a.furse (@gold.ac.uk)
From 40 years of feminist performance research, theatre directing and writing, Anna now focuses on the body performing in social, cultural and medical contexts.
Robert Gordon
r.gordon (@gold.ac.uk)
Gordon’s research has used his own experiences to focus on the relationship between practice and critical reflection.
Fiona Graham
f.graham (@gold.ac.uk)
Fiona’s research is informed by thirty years working as a dramaturge and performance writer in Britain and New Zealand.
Katja Hilevaara
katja.hilevaara (@gold.ac.uk)
Katja is a practitioner-researcher, whose work includes performance, installation and writing, and engages with memory and contemporary performance.
Florian J Seubert
F.Seubert (@gold.ac.uk)
Florian's interests are interdisciplinary and his teaching follows a practice-oriented, hands-on approach when discussing and analysing cultural theory.
Pamela Karantonis
P.Karantonis (@gold.ac.uk)
Pamela has always been intrigued by disruptive genres of art and considers the theatre to be at its best when it fills this remit.
Ben Levitas
b.levitas (@gold.ac.uk)
Ben’s research connects modern Irish literature and theatre with its cultural and political history, specialising in W. B. Yeats.
Dafne Louzioti
d.louzioti (@gold.ac.uk)
Dafne works and teaches across performance, theatre, dance and martial arts, focusing on the body and power relationships.
Graeme Miller
gmill009 (@gold.ac.uk)
Graeme Miller is an artist whose work has taken various forms, from performance, installation, video and sound.
Rachael Newberry
r.newberry (@gold.ac.uk)
Rachael's research interests are in the intersections between Post-War British Drama, Feminism and Eco- Criticism.
Osita Okagbue
o.okagbue (@gold.ac.uk)
Osita’s research interests are in African theatre and performance, Caribbean theatre and postcolonial theatre.
Deirdre Osborne
d.osborne (@gold.ac.uk)
Deirdre's research ranges from late-Victorian to contemporary periods focusing upon feminism, race and poetics.
Nick Parkin
drama (@gold.ac.uk)
An award-winning composer, Nick specialises in environmental and site based sound and performance.
Phoebe Patey-Ferguson
ppate004 (@gold.ac.uk)
Phoebe’s research expertise is on international theatre festivals, rooted in the Sociology of Theatre and Performance.
Alexa Reid
a.reid (@gold.ac.uk)
Alexa is a cross-disciplinary artist who makes work in the margins between theatre, live art and installation.
Catherine Rosario
c.rosario (@gold.ac.uk)
Catherine’s research focusses on the meeting points between popular art forms, canonical works and the avant-garde.
Marie-Gabrielle Rotie
m.rotie (@gold.ac.uk)
Marie is an interdisciplinary artist exploring feminist concerns through the meeting of visual art and performance.
Göze Saner
g.saner (@gold.ac.uk)
Göze's research approaches performance and performer training from psychological, philosophical, political and social perspectives.
Maria Shevtsova
m.shevtsova (@gold.ac.uk)
Author of over 140 articles, Maria has worked on the sociology of the theatre, specialising in Russian theatre.
Miles Thompson
m.thompson (@gold.ac.uk)
Miles’ specialism is gay camp practice with interests in queerness, gay theatre, historical and drag performance.
Andrea Tuijten
a.tuijten (@gold.ac.uk)
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
m.twitchin (@gold.ac.uk)
Mischa’s main research interests are European theatres of the avant-garde and Afro-European cultural politics.
