Current Projects
Name
Project Title
Funding
Supervisor(s)
Barnes, Sarah
The Edge of Music: Exploring the boundaries of sound, space and the body in twenty-first century classical music performance
Bond, Imogen
What is the function of the theatre curtain call for British audiences, and how does it relate to changing ideas of theatre patronage?
Aoife Monks
Bower, Julie Rose
This is What a Feminist Sounds Like: Performed Sound Design from Foley to ASMR
Martin Welton
Cermak, Andrej Samuel
Slovak and Czech Performance Art from the 1960s to 1989
AHRC
Dominic Johnson
Disman, Adriana
Pathologising Performance: Self-Harm, Performance Art, and Personhood
QMUL
Dominic Johnson and Martin O’Brien
Evans, David
Autobiographic Performances of Madness. How Autobiographic Performances Can Decolonise, Devictimize, and Destigmatise Mental Illness?
Bridget Escolme
Freedman, Lucy
Criminalisation as Casting: Eroticism and the Theatricalisation of Bourgeois Subjectivity
Nicholas Ridout
Gardini, Genna
MS Independent: Writing Womanhood and Multiple Sclerosis
Hadjiandreou, Alkiviades
Emanuele Balzani: Epistemological shifts in representing artistic practices
Harper, Sarah
Inclusion, exclusion and self-censorship : the politics and aesthetics of identity and belonging in applied performance projects in suburbs of Paris and London
Caoimhe McAvinchey
Hubbard, Wendy
Reading Collaboration: Labour, Community and the Politics of Authorship in Contemporary Theatre
Jenkins, CJ
Jen Harvie and Caoimhe McAvinchey
Kijaniza, Tatjana
WT: Empty Actions – Unoccupied Centers. Eastern European Underground Performance Art in the Late Socialist Period
Dominic Johnson and Shane Boyle
Lamden, Gill
How the Dead Do Speak: Contemporary Productions of Early Modern Plays with Ghosts
Bridge Escolme
MacKenzie, Danielle
Maggie Inchley and Mary Richardson
Miná, Deborah
Naish, Carolyn
The Performance of Age, Ageing, Decline and Invisibility, Currently Represented in the Work of Women and LGBT Live Artists, 2010-2023
Park, Haeri
A Diagnosis of Capitalism in Caryl Churchill's Dramas since the 1990s
Jen Harvie
Perez Rothstein, Pedro Andres
British Council Spain
Paul Heritage
Poster-Su, Tobi
Swati Arora and Martin O’Brien
Schaaf, Olivia
Inside the Outsider: German Independent Music Theatre at the Neuköllner Oper Berlin
Shane Boyle
Schulte, Hanife
Another Performance: The Theatre of Differences
Signorelli, Micaela
Contemporary Performance Art in Post Dictatorial Chile
Dominic Johnson and Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra
Silva de Jesus, Thiago
Turner, Alicia
Simari, Alessanro
Shakespeare's Globes: A History of Shakespearean Theatres from Globe to Globe
Stuart, Isabel
Valuing Emotion in Contemporary Feminist Performance
Tomlin, Karen
The Black Female Masculine: The Conundrum of the Black Female Theatre Director
Vassiliades, Lorna
Vollenweider, Chloë
Weller, Jeremy
Doubting Thomas: Redemption, Rehabilitation and Self-Documentation in a Contemporary Performance Trilogy
Welton, Emma
Completed Projects
Year of Award
Adebayo, Mojisola
Afri-Queer Theatre: Challenging Homophobia, Re/presenting Black Lesbians and Creating Performance Spaces for Black Queer Togetherness
Silverstone, Catherine
Allwood, Charlie
The Gran Teatre del Liceu and Catalan Culture: History, Representation and Myth
2013
Delgado, Maria
Anderson, Joel
Theatre and Performance Photography: Documentation and the "Unlive"
2008
Baker, Sylvan
Training UK Cultural Warriors: Youth Leadership Through the Arts
2015
Caoimhe MvAvinchey and Paul Heritage
Bartley, Sarah
Art Works: Participatory Practice and (Anti)Work Politics
QMUL/CTR
Harvie, Jen and McAvinchy, Caoimhe
Bauer, Una
Post 1990s Dance Theatre and (the Idea of) the Neutral
2011
London
Bell, Charlotte
Social Housing Performed: Community arts interventions in East London
Michael McKinnie
Bennett, Emma
Just Joking: Speech, Performance and Ethics
2017
Birksted-Breen, Noah
Alternative Voices in an Acquiescent Society: The New Wave of Russian Playwrights
AHRC CDA
Delgado, Maria, and Andreas Schönle
Borsuk, Amy
Wanting to be Radical: Contemporary ‘Radical’ Shakespeare Theatre Practice
Breden, Simon
Beyond the Playwright: The Creative Process of Els Joglars & Teatro de la Abadia
2009
Brodie, Geraldine
Plays in Translation on the London Stage: Visibility, Celebrity, Agency and Collaboration
2012
Delgado, Maria and Hermans, Theo
Castelyn, Sarahleigh
South African Dance Theatre: The Body as a Site of Struggle
Ceraolo, Francesco
The Aesthetics of the Wagnerian Gesamtkunstwerk from Appia to Postdramatic Theatre
Church, Lewis
Hating Discipline: The Polymath and the Academy
Johnson, Dominic
Curtis, Harriet
Performing Cultural Identities in California: High Performance and the Performance of Paul McCarthy
2014
Diestro-Dópido, Mar
Film Festivals: Cinema and Cultural Exchange
Easton, Léonore
Livegraphy Performance Art, Language and the Multiplicity of Sense
2010
Eaton, Kate
False Alarms and Fake Excursions: Translating Virgilio Piñero for Performance
Edkins, Timothy
Feeling Productive
Fallow, Catriona
Past and Present Plays: New Work at the Royal Shakespeare Company and Shakespeare’s Globe
2016
Catherine Silverstone
Gomme, Rachel
'Being Here Now': Presence, Present, Presentness in a Live Art Practice
Welton, Martin
Graziano, Valeria
Formats of Conviviality: The Organisation of Collective Agency in a Time of Impasse
McKinnie, Michael
Grochala, Sarah
Seriousness, Structure and the Dramaturgy of Social Life
Gush, Helen
The World Theatre Season: Internationalisation and British performance culture
Hamadah, Faisal
Between the Social and the Political: The History of Kuwaiti Theatre
Hancox, Simone
Global Art in an Age of Global Performance: Complicity and Critique
Escolme, Bridget
Harradine, David
Chronographies: Performance, Death and the Writing of Time
2005
Heritage, Paul
Hilevaara, Katja
Memory and Contemporary Performance: Remembering is the New Live
Holstein, Lauren Barri
The Agency of the Displayed Female Body: The Political Potential of Negative Affects in Contemporary Feminism and Performance
Home-Cook, George
Stretching Ourselves: The Phenomenology of Sound and Listening in Contemporary Theatre
Hunka, Emily
Poor Players: the role of theatre troupe artistry in treating adolescent mental distress
Caoimhe McAvinchey and Nasir Warfa
Jones, Bret
A Question of Taste: Theatrical and Cultural Continuity in Seventeenth Century England
Kartsaki, Eirini
Repeat Repeat: Returns of Performance
Dominic Johnson and Nicholas Ridout
Laera, Margherita
Appropriating Greek Tragedy: Community, Democracy and other Mythologies
Leighton-Kelly, Sophie
The Barbican: Performance, the City and Transnationalism
Michael McKInnie
Linsley, Johanna
I Know Something You Don’t Know: Contemporary Performance and the Politics of Expertise
QMUL and ORSAS
Livergant, Elyssa
Workshop: The Dramaturgy of Theatrical Labour
University of London
Maria Delgado and Aoife Monks
Lobel, Brian
Playing the Cancer Card: Illness, Performance and Spectatorship
QMUL and Wellcome Trust
Silverstone, Catherine and Weaver, Lois
Macauley, Vanessa
'“Nowhere in the World is it Safe to be Black": Performance Art, Enfleshment and Black Subjectivity'
2021
Dominic Johnson and Mojisola Adebayo
Macdonald, Megan
Performance Art, Liturgy and the Performance of Belief
Mader McGuinness, Caoimhe
Challenging Liberal Conceptions of the Theatrical Sphere in London, 2009-2015
Catherine Silverstone and Nicholas Ridout
Manninen, Saini
Duration Materialised: Investigating Contemporary Performance as a Temporal Medium
Marini, Charikleia
Re-defining Urban Space Through Performance
Massie, Eleanor
Amateurs and Professionals: A Circum-Atlantic Genealogy of Performer Identity
McNamara, Catherine
The Constitution of Transgender Masculinities through Performance: A Study of Theatre and the Everyday
Lois Weaver and Caoime McAvinchey
Mitas, Jen
Work, Emotion and the American Method
Mullan, Sarah
Lesbian Performance in London 1995-2015: Identity, Representation and Queer Epistemologies
Nicholson-Sanz, Michelle
On Ports and Stages: Destabilising Cultural Identities through a Lingua Franca Theatre in Latin America
Oliver, Daniel
The Social Turn: Engagement and Efficacy in Contemporary Performance
Dominic Johnson and Jen Harvie
Owen, Louise
Performing "Risk": Neoliberalization and Contemporary Performance
Oxley, Rachel
Taking Turns: The Structuring of ‘Togetherness’
Quirós Alpera, Gabriel
Historia de la Dirección Escénica en España: José Luis Alonso
Delgado, Maria and Huerta Calvo, Javier
Reynolds, James
Evaluating Performance/Re-evaluating Process: An Investigation into and Reassessment of Robert Lepage's Devised Theatre Practice
Roberts, Eleanor
Third Area: A Feminist Reading of Performance at London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts in the 1970s
Schmidt, Theron
The Politics of Theatricality: Community and Representation in Contemporary Art and Performance
Smith, Anne
The Possibilities and Limitations of using Drama to Facilitate a Sense of Belonging for Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Migrants in East London
Smith, Kirstin
Attention-Seeking Activities: Stunt Performances in Public Life
Sosa, Cecilia
Performance, Kinship and Archives: Queering Acts of Mourning in the Aftermath of Argentina's 1976-1983 Dictatorship
ORSAS and QMUL
Delgado, Maria and
Thomasson, Sarah
Festival Cities: Edinburgh and Adelaide
Twitchin, Mischa
The Theatre of Death: The Uncanny in Mimesis
Ridout, Nicholas
Twite, Christine
Cultures of Spectatorship: The Relationship between Dramaturgy, Site, Outreach and Audience in the work of Actors' Touring Company
Maria Delgado
Vranou, Sofia
Modern Art on Legs: Leigh Bowery’s Live Art and Performative Costuming
2022
Walsh, Helena
Live Art and Femininity in Post-Conflict Ireland: Between Negation and Reproduction, Rebellion and Conformity
Dominic Johnson and McAvinchey, Caoimhe
Watkinson, Philip
Making Space for Affect: Affective Materialism and Contemporary Performance
Walters, Ben
Duckie in the Community: Performance, Audience and Social Engagement
AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award with Duckie
Catherine Silverstone and Simon Casson (Duckie)
Wiskowski, Andrew
Moods, Modes, and Modality: Presence and its Derivatives in Choral and Collective Performance
Watt-Smith, Tiffany
Flinching: Self-Experimentation and Theatricality, 1872 - 1918
Whitfield, Sarah
Kurt Weill: The "Composer as Dramatist" in American Musical Theatre Production
Willson, Suzy
Performing Medicine
Wilson, Anna
Argentine Theatre in Twenty-first Century Barcelona: Cultural Exchange and (Trans)national Identities
Woods, Penelope
Globe Audiences: Spectatorship and Reconstruction at Shakespeare's Globe
Wozniak, Jan
Emancipating Shakespeare?: Jacques Ranciere and the Politics of Performing Shakespeare for Young People
Young, Martin
The Discipline in the British Theatre Industry 1550-2015
Nicholas Ridout and Aoife Monks
Young, Charlotte
Interpreting Performance Practices: Signification and Political Efficacy in Performance Scholarship
Nicholas Ridout and Shane Boyle
Zechner, Manuela
The World we Desire is one we can Create and Care for Together
Maria Delgado and Bove, Arianna (School of Business and Management)
