Sebastian Mylly

Profile

Project Title: Performing Solidarity: Aspects of Coalitional Social Movement Politics in British Performing Arts.

Supervisors: Dr Shane Boyle, Dr Tom Six (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama).

Previous qualifications:

Associate Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA)

MA Theatre and Performance (QMUL)

BA Film Studies and Drama (QMUL)

Teaching

London Performance Now

Research

Research Interests:

Contemporary theatre and performance,

Cultural politics,

Protest art and art activism,

Propaganda,

Social movements and state power in art.

Publications

‘“Mother Finland’s chosen sacrifice”: Conscription and National Identity in Pyynikki Summer Theatre’s The Unknown Soldier (2025)’, Critical Stages/Scènes critiques 36 (2027, forthcoming)

‘The Performance of Striking: The Past, Present, and Future of Picketing in the UK’, Platform: Journal of Theatre and Performing Arts 17, no. 1 (2024): 58-73