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Specialist in Performance, Activism, and Ethics

I offer a unique portfolio of creative and critical programmes for higher education and professional contexts. With a background in performance, animal studies, and activism, I draw from academic research, applied theatre practice, and direct campaigning to deliver high-impact, reflective, and participatory learning.

All programmes are adaptable to diploma, undergraduate, postgraduate, and continuing professional development (CPD) levels.

Studio-based workshops
Discussion and theory seminars
Solo and collaborative devising
Practice-as-research
Reflective journalling

One-day Workshop
Weekend Intensive
Week Short Course
Full Module
Built in Outcomes

Creative resistance and the politics of performance.

Explore how performance is used within activism to convey urgency, emotion, and transformation.

Through case studies, practice, and creative devising, participants analyse protest as performance and develop their own performance-based activist interventions.

Histories of protest performance (e.g. ACT UP, Pussy Riot, Extinction Rebellion)
Devising for social change
Tactical media and performative gestures
Ethics of intervention
Performance documentation as resistance

Essay: Critical reflection on a historical or contemporary example.
Practical Work: Devised activist performance with reflective written component.
Presentation: Case study analysis of a movement or campaign.

Performance & Activism

Performance & Trauma

Staging memory, healing, and collective witness.

This programme explores how trauma is embodied, communicated, and transformed through performance.

It considers individual and collective trauma, with specific attention to activism, ethics, and testimonial performance.

Trauma theory and memory in performance
Testimony, witnessing, and ethics
Performing personal and political grief
Applied theatre and community healing
Vicarious trauma and performer care

Essay: Theoretical analysis of trauma-based performance.
Practice-as-Research: Performance work that engages with trauma, with a written rationale and analysis.
Workshop Facilitation Plan: Design and justify a trauma-informed workshop

Exploring the non-human through embodied practice.

Engage with representations of animals in performance, from classical theatre to contemporary animal rights activism.

The course challenges anthropocentrism and explores how performance can reimagine interspecies relationships.

Animal studies and posthumanist theory
Drag, animality, and embodied critique
Rehearsing interspecies empathy
Ethics of representing animals
Performance in animal rights campaigns

Essay: Analysis of a performance or campaign using critical animal studies.
Creative Practice: Solo or group performance exploring animality, accompanied by documentation or artist’s statement.
Critical Reflection: Response to live or recorded performances with theoretical framing.

Performing Animality

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