Humanities and Social Sciences

Theatre and Drama Program

Staff Directory

Major Research Areas:

• Directing for the theatre
• Performance practice and theory

Current Projects:

• Lorca: a Spanish Palindrome – performance in development
• Cordelia: Mein Kind season in the Brisbane Festival – Under The Radar Program at Metro Arts, October 2009
• The Mill Community Theatre: International Language, Local Vocabulary - a history.
• Playing Clytemnestra and the Forgotten Body: a memory piece – accepted for publication in ‘Close Relations’ a book of essays on contemporary performances of Classical plays with Cambridge Scholars Press
  

Major Teaching Areas:

• Theatre Production
• Performance Making
• Honours Co-ordinator
• Performance Co-ordinator
• Theatre Practice: Directing (fourth year level)

Recent Performance Work:

• Director and co-creator of "Cordelia: Mein Kind - A duet for live body and film that maps a modern Cordelia and her "Lear-like father" onto the bones of Shakespeare's Lear and his silent daughter" Dancehouse, Carlton, Theatre J Incubator Season, Washington, US December 2008
• A member of the core creative team responsible for "John Cage's Musicircus" performed in BMW Edge at Federation Square as part of the Melbourne International Festival October 2007.
• Design consultant on "Thom Pain Based on Nothing" written by Will Eno and directed by Julian Meyrick for the Melbourne Theatre Company, July 2007

Recent publications:

• "Actors and Chairs: Towards the genealogy of a rehearsal room exercise" in Australasian Drama Studies vol.53 October 2008, 128-140
• Introduction to Lineages, Techniques, Training and Tradition, Australian Drama Studies vol.53 3008 (special issue co-edited with Elizabeth Shafer), 03-08
• "Arts Melbourne and the End of the Seventies: the ideology of the collective versus collective ideologies" in When You Think About Art what Do You Think? The Ewing and George Paton Galleries 1971 - 2008 Melbourne, Palgrave Macmillan 2007
• Dramaturgy as Political Desire: Making a Democratic Space - The Orestes Trilogy (Melbourne, Australia 1974) in Australasian Drama Studies vol. 50 April 2007: 66 - 77

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