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 pleasure in performance and visual culture, as well as immersive theatre

Gail Babb

Gail Babb is an award-winning theatre maker who specialises in new work, participatory arts and experiments with form.

Marcus Bell

Marcus is a queer dance scholar investigating tragedy, choreography and decolonial queer performance practices.

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.

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.

Cass Fleming

Cass’s specialisms are actor training, directing, and the work of Michael Chekhov and Suzanne Bing

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 Hilevaara is an artist, researcher and teacher who works in performance, installation and art-writing.

Dr 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

Dr 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.

Molly McPhee

Molly's research explores how theatre intervenes on carceral society through sensory atmospheres of resistance

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.

Nick Parkin

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

Marie-Gabrielle Rotie

Marie-Gabrielle as a practitioner-researcher, artist, movement coach and choreographer working from embodied knowledge.

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.