TaPRA 2019: Full Schedule

Welcome to TaPRA 2019 at the University of Exeter!

10:00am BST

TaPRA Executive Meeting

This meeting is only for members of the TaPRA Executive Committee named below, and those invited for timed business, with agenda and papers accessed viashared online folder. The Committee will be discussing final conference arrangements as well as the agenda for the Annual General Meeting (AGM). The minutes of all TaPRA Executive Committee meetings for 2018-19 (including draft minutes for this meeting) will be available for members to read with the AGM agenda.

TaPRA Exec and Working Group C...

Anna Harpin

TaPRA Exec: Working Group Co-ordinator

Broderick D.V. Chow

TaPRA Exec: Research Officer (incoming)

Broderick D.V. Chow is Senior Lecturer in Theatre at Brunel University London. His research concerns questions of theatricality, performance, and the sporting body. From 2016-2018 he was Principal Investigator on the AHRC-funded project Dynamic Tensions: New Masculinities in the Performance... Read More →

Cathy Sloan

TaPRA Exec: Postgraduate Representative

Cathy Sloan is an applied theatre-maker, teacher and performance researcher.She was Associate and later Artistic Director of Outside Edge Theatre Company, devising performances with, by and for people in recovery from addiction. Her recent publications address the ethics and politics... Read More →

Claire Hampton

TaPRA Exec: Working Group Co-ordinator, University of Wolverhampton

Theatre of the Selfie: Staging Ill Health in Visual AutopathographiesSubject to the scrutiny of a clinical gaze, the diseased body is constituted by medical specularisation and clinical archiving. Through X-rays, CT scans, MRIs and diagrams the ailing body is visualised and documented... Read More →

Hannah Greenstreet

TaPRA Exec: Postgraduate Representative

Hannah Greenstreet is an AHRC-funded PhD candidate at the University of Oxford, researching realism and feminism in contemporary theatre. She won the 2016 TaPRA Postgraduate Essay Prize and is TaPRA Postgraduate Representative. Her work has been published in Studies in Theatre... Read More →

Jo Scott

TaPRA Exec: Conference Officer, University of Salford

Jo Scott is an intermedial practitioner-researcher and lecturer at the University of Salford. Her first monograph, Intermedial Praxis and PaR, was published in 2016 and she has contributed writing to a range of recent publications. Jo’s current research project is exploring the... Read More →

Katie Beswick

TaPRA Exec: Communications Officer

Katie Beswick is a Senior Lecturer in Drama at the University of Exeter. She is interested in how issues of social class play out through theatre practices, in the relationship between places and performance, and in sex, sexuality and hip hop. She writes for the music magazine Loud... Read More →

Konstantinos Thomaidis

TaPRA Exec: Working Group Co-ordinator, Convenor: Sound, Voice and Music

Dr Konstantinos Thomaidis is Lecturer in Drama at the University of Exeter. He is joint editor of the Routledge Voice Studies series and the Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies. His publications include Voice Studies (2015, Routledge), Theatre & Voice (2017, Palgrave... Read More →

Patrick Duggan

TaPRA Exec: Secretary

Patrick is a performance scholar interested in what cultural production is it ‘for’ politically, socially, culturally and aesthetically. His research is interested to look not only at contemporary aesthetic practice but also at events in everyday life that we might analyse as... Read More →

Roberta Mock

Professor of Performance Studies, University of Plymouth

I will be welcoming folks to the conference, hosting a lunchtime salon (with a focus on practice-research), chairing the AGM, and presenting the following paper.CU(N)Ts: Gendered Blood, Performance, and Spaces of AppearanceMaurice Merleau-Ponty chose the word invagination to designate... Read More →

Sally Smerdon

Administrator, University of Plymouth

Sally Smerdon joined TaPRA as an administrator 5 years ago and also works in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, as an Administrator for Research and Creative Industries at The University of Plymouth.

Tom Cornford

TaPRA Exec: Working Group Co-ordinator

Tom Cornford is Senior Lecturer in Theatre and Performance at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London; Associate Editor of Studies in Theatre and Performance, and a director and dramaturg. His research focuses on relationships between the practices of theatre-making... Read More →

Wednesday September 4, 2019 10:00am - 11:45am BST
Roborough: Meeting Room

Exec Meeting