Research Student Profiles

Name Project title
Nicola Abraham ARTiculate 2 REconstruct
Hannah Ballou hoo:ha, Illuminating and exploiting the dissonance between laughter and desire with the female comic body
Claudio Beghelli Intercultural exchanges in theatrical culinary practices.
Marcelo Beré The Essential Clown
Anna Brownsted Producing the Protagonist
J. Luis Manuel Campos Epistemological Performance: Conceptualizing the Epistemic Subject in Contemporary Theatrical Practices
Rachel Cockburn The Aesthetics of Auto( )graphy
Olga Danylyuk Strategies of Intermedial Praxis and Impact on the Experiencer
Jon Davison The Product of Clowning
Helen Evans Intramediality, Surveillance and the Interactive Turn
Daniel Felstead Towards a Spatial Materiality: A theoretical and practical investigation into interaction and performativity within the museum domain
Charla Givans Dramatherapy and Children and Young People with Depression: An Investigation into Evaluation Models
Jessica Hartley Guided Practices in Facing Danger: Experiences of Risky Work with Adolescents
Christina Kapadocha Acting The Tragic Heroine: A Somatic Experience of Euripides and Shakespeare
Oliver Lidert Integration and Conflict: An investigation of Afro-American Aesthetics in Musical Theatre
Shaun May You Have to ‘Be There’: A Heideggerean Phenomenology of Humour
Deirdre McLaughlin Emotional Memory: An Exploration of the Actor’s Inner Life On the Stage and In the Mind
Joseph Mercier F*ck the Stage: Queer Strategies for (Re)Directing Dance Theatre Practices
Helen Murphy Tomorrowland: Modernity and Western Europe's Scenographic Orient
James Palm Acting in Good Faith: A Paradigm of Acting and Actor Training
Claire Pamment The Bhand Mode: Performative Trickstering in Pakistani Ritual, Theatre and Television
Lazlo Ilya Pearlman Baring it all and Confessing Lies: Strategies to create productive disruption via ‘autobiographical’ and ‘confessional’ solo performance
Will Pinchin Mask as Myth, Myth as Mask: Investigating the archetypal tools available to the actor creator – Lecoq and Campbell
Alejandro Postigo Rediscovering Spanish Musical Theatre: Exploring an Intercultural Adaptation of Copla
Rebecca Reeves Devising realism: examining the use of realist strategies for characterisation in contemporary British devising practices.
Jo Ronan Collective Ownership, Capital and Creating Performance: Developing a Sense of Ownership in Collaborative Theatre Practice
Canan Salih The Performance and Performativity of a Diaspora Identity through Emplacement and Mobility of London-Turkish-Cypriot Youth
Jo Scott New Forms of Liveness in Live Intermedial Performance
Kiki (Vasiliki) Selioni A Re-evaluation of Laban Principles for Actors in view of the Aristotelian Concept of Mimesis
Qasim Shah The Intercultural Transfer of Voice Practice
Mark Swetz Blind Spectatorship: Directing, Dramaturgy and Non-Visual Accessibility
Phoenix Thomas Bringing Queer to the Masses: Overcoming hegemonic modes of representation in costume design
Lisa Woynarski Levelling the Greenhouse: Toward an Ecological Performance Aesthetic
Young Yoo The Cult of The Feminine in Surrealist Theatre