Staff profile

Dr Rand T Hazou

Lecturer, Research Associate

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

School of Communication, Arts and Critical Enquiry

HU2 422, Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

BA UQ; MA-Prelim LTU; PhD LTU

Area of study

Theatre and Drama

Brief profile

Rand Hazou was born in Jordan. His family are from Jerusalem. Rand is an Australian/Palestinian academic and theatre facilitator. In 2004 Rand was commissioned by the UNDP to travel to the Occupied Territories in Palestine to work as a theatre consultant running workshops for Palestinian youths. In 2009 Rand was awarded a PhD in Theatre and Drama at La Trobe University. His thesis examined political theatre interventions staged in Australia engaging with Asylum Seekers and Refugees. In 2011 Rand was awarded a Cultural Leadership Skills Development Grant from the Australia Council for the Arts to develop The 7arakat|Harakat Project, involving a series of theatre-related initiatives between Australia and Palestine. As part of this grant, Rand travelled to Palestine in October 2011 to participate in an internship with Al-Kasaba Theatre in Ramallah. Rand is currently undertaking an internship with Multicultural Arts Victoria. As an academic he has taught across a wide variety of subject at La Trobe and Monash Universities. He is currently a research associate in the School of Communication, Arts and Critical Enquiry, and is a lecturer and tutor in the theatre and drama program at La Trobe University.

Research interests

Screen and Media Culture

- Applied Theatre

- Asylum Seeker and Refugee Theatre

- Cultural Diversity and Australia Theatre

- Documentary Theatre

- Intercultural Theatre

Teaching units

Major Teaching Areas:

  • Australian Drama
  • Process-Based Performance
  • Theatre Knowledge Practice

Recent publications

  • ‘’Dys-Appearance and Compassion: The Body, Pain, and Ethical Enactments in Mike Parr’s Close the Concentration Camps’. Performing Ethos. [Forthcoming]. Issue 2 (2011).
  • ‘Hypermediacy and Credibility in Documentary Theatre: The Craft of Make-Believe in Théâtre du Soleil’s Le Dernier Caravansérail’ [Forthcoming]. Studies in Theatre and Performance.(2011).
  • ‘Staging Hidden Stories: Australian Theatre and Asylum Seekers’. Double Dialogues: In/Stead. Issue 3 (2011).
  • ‘Performance in Place of War’ [Book Review]. Australasian Drama Studies. No. 57 (2010): 241-243.
  • ‘Community Theatre and Refugee Advocacy’. About Performance. 9 (2009): 67-86.
  • ‘Refugitive and the Theatre of Dys-Appearance’. Research in Drama Education. 13.2 (2008): 181-86.

Research projects

The 7arakat Project: Palestine Australia Theatre Movements

7arakat|‘ḥarakāt’|‘movements’: The 7arakat project aims to achieve a series of goals over the next two years including; a survey of current approaches to theatre and performance-making in Palestine, an academic Seminar or Forum on Palestinian Theatre and Performance involving the participation of Palestinian and Australian theatre-makers and scholars, the possible facilitation of a creative documentary theatre project involving Australian and Palestinian theatre-makers, as well establishing the groundwork for a range of other future artistic collaborations and productions such as tours, play-readings and creative workshops.  

If you would like to know more - visit the 7arakat project website.