Staff profile

Ms Meredith Joan Rogers

Lecturer, Co-ordinator, Theatre and Drama Program

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

School of Communication, Arts and Critical Enquiry

HU2 426, Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

BA (Hons-Melbourne), MCA (Melbourne).

Membership of professional Associations

Member of the Executive, Australasian Association for Theatre, Drama and Performance Studies, Member Independent Theatre Panel for Green Room Awards.

Area of study

Creative Arts
Theatre and Drama

Brief Profile

Meredith Rogers is a performer, director and designer. She has maintained her independent theatre career since joining the Theatre and Drama program in 1991 and in 2002 she was the recipient of the Ewa Czajor award for a woman director.

Research interests

Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies

- Directing for the theatre

- Performance practice and theory

Teaching Units

  • DRA2/3TPR - Theatre Production.
  • DRA2PEM - Performance Making.
  • DRA3APM - Advanced Performance-Making.
  • DRA2/3TSS - Theatre Stages and Spaces.
  • DRA2/3IPF - Intercultural Performance.
  • DRA1TKP - Theatre Knowledge and Practice.
  • DRA1PBP - Process based performance.

Recent Publications

Professional 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.

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.

Research projects

  • Palindrome for a Dead Poet – a hybrid performance in development
  • 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