Winner of Marie Curie Fellowship to Research Intermedial Shakespeare

Central congratulates and welcomes Aneta Mancewicz, who has been awarded the Marie Curie FP7 Intra European Fellowship to undertake her research, over the next 2 years, on Intermedial Shakespeare on European Stages (ISES) at Central School of Speech & Drama. Competition for the awards is highly competitive, with only 10-20% of applications awarded funding. Aneta will be collaborating with Professor Robin Nelson, Director of Research at Central and Visiting Professor Matt Adams, from Blast Theory.

Aneta chose Central because, “[Central] is a high-profile, specialist college, combining cutting-edge research on theatre and performance with vocational training and stage production. It is an excellent institution for hosting a project which merges academia with theatre industry. Central is also ideal for research on stage production, since it has the largest staff grouping of academics working on theatre and the performing arts in Europe."

The focus of Aneta’s work will explore the uses of new media in performances of Shakespeare’s plays in six European countries over the last twenty years, whilst examining new tendencies in contemporary theatre, Shakespearean interpretation, as well as European artistic and cultural production.