The ADSA research register records the research interests of ADSA members in theatre, drama and performance studies.

You can use the research register to

• find out what research is currently being undertaken by ADSA members;
• look for assistance with dramaturgical research for your forthcoming productions;
• find a collaborator who might be interested in documenting and writing about major productions, companies, etc; or
• find possible supervisors for a higher degree or prospective examiners for MA and PhD theses.

Anthony Adah (Grad Drama Centre, University of Toronto)
Major: Aboriginal Cinemas (Australia, Canada, and New Zealand); Postcolonial Drama/Theatre and Film.
Minor: Violence and the Body in Film; Community Theatre.

Dr Gillian Arrighi (University of Newcastle)
Major: Popular entertainments of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; Circus and physical theatre; Actor training; "Performing" animals.
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Ms Kath Bicknell (University of Sydney)
Major: Phenomenology of performance; Sport and performance; Spectatorship.
Minor: Embodiment and neurology; Space in performance; Site-specific performance.

Mr Bill Blaikie (Charles Sturt University)
Major: Celebratory Theatre; Theatre & Cultural Action; Physical Theatre; Circus.
Minor: Theatre-in-Education; Welfare State International.

Dr Jonathan Bollen (Flinders University)
Major: Australian theatre history, 20th century ; Social dancing and popular culture, 20th century ; Gender and sexuality in performance
Minor: Theories of practice, performativity and affect ; Movement analysis and the history of animation ; Performance historiography and digital technologies ; Health education and gay men's sexual cultures

G.J Borny (Australian National University)
Major: Acting; American theatre - particularly Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller and Edward Albee; Chekhov; Directing.
Minor: French drama and theatre - Molire - Racine.

Assoc Prof Tom Burvill (Macquarie University)
Major: Australian theatre contemporary - including community theatre, the politics of practices and forms; Aboriginal theatre and multiculturalism; Chekhov - in reading, criticism and performance; Shakespeare and contemporaries.
Minor: Social theory in relation to cultural forms; Modernism/Postmodernism - the problematic in theatre and cultural studies; Naturalist drama - High Naturalisms of the nineteenth century; Realism - theory and practice of.

Rebecca Clifford (Australian National University)
Major: Metatheatre; Popular entertainments; Australian Drama.
Minor: Russian theatre; Translation.

Mr Terence Crawford
Major: Adaptation of Realism; Acting pedagogy
Minor: Post colonial Shakespeare

Dr Glenn D’Cruz (Deakin University)
Major: Identity politics; Irish theatre: contemporary political; Politics and theatre; Theatre as vehicle for social change.
Minor: Vampires and vampirism in performance.

Dr Jenny de Reuck (Murdoch University)
Major: Childrens Theatre; South African drama; Theatre and Feminism; Theatre in education.
Minor: Post-colonial theory and theatre.

Mr Robin Dixon (University of Sydney)
Major: Roman theatre; Roman comedy; Plautus; Hellenistic new comedy; Translation and dramaturgy; Spatial elements of performance; reception of ancient drama.
Minor: Ethnomusicology; Documentation of performance; Acting styles and techniques; Phenomenology of music performance

Ms Kim Durban (Arts Academy)
Major: Women Directors and Interpretation; Renaissance Literature; New Writing.
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Mr Peter Eckersall (University of Melbourne)
Major: Japanese Theatre.
Minor: Dramaturgy; Avant-Garde Theatre.

Mr Ian Edelstein (Australian National University)
Major: Theatre; South African Political History.
Minor: Film; Politics; History.

Mr Michael Edgar (University of Tasmania)
Major: Monodrama; Rhetoric in Renaissance and Contemporary Drama
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Victor Emeljanow (University of Newcastle)
Major: Theatre audiences; Chekhov; Edwardian theatre; Imperialism and the theatre.
Minor: Nineteenth century theatre

Assoc Prof Michael Ewans (University of Newcastle)
Major: Greek Theatre -Translation and Performance; Opera since Wagner; Tragedy.
Minor: Buechner, Georg; Expressionism.

Dr Rachel Fensham (University of Surrey)
Major: Contemporary theatre and performance; Dance studies; Feminist theatre and theory; Gender studies and queer theory; Corporeality and performance.
Minor: Community theatre; Intercultural theatre; Cultural policy; Festivals.

Mr Russell Fewster (University of Melbourne)
Major: Media & performance; Japanese Theatre; Jacques Lecoq
Minor: Rehearsal & Performance Analysis

Prof Peter Fitzpatrick (Monash University)
Major: Australian theatre - contemporary - historical; Musical Theatre.
Minor:

Michael Foster
Major: Community theatre; Directing; Group theatre; Popular theatre; Youth theatre - professional young peoples theatre.
Minor: Australian theatre contemporary; Physical Theatre and Applied Theatre; Zeal theatre.

Mr Richard Fotheringham (University of Queensland)
Major: Australian theatre history; Performing Arts Policy; Scholarly editing of playscripts.
Minor: Australian film early.

Sarah French
Major: Feminism & Gender Theory in performance; Representations of memory in performance.
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Prof. Penny Gay (University of Sydney)
Major: Shakespeare in performance - especially comedy.
Minor: Acting theory - theories of the Actor; Australian theatre history; English theatre history.

Professor Helen Gilbert (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Major: Aboriginal Australian drama: Australian drama contemporary; Intercultural Performance - theory and practice; Performance theory - especially feminist; Post-colonial drama - African, Caribbean, Canadian, New Zealand.
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John Golder (University of New South Wales)
Major: Audiences in 18th century France; French stage design & theatre architecture - 17th & 18th centuries; Shakespeare on the Australian stage; Shakespeare on the French stage in the 18th & 19th centuries.
Minor: Translation of neo-classical French drama into English.

Prof Jane Goodall (University of Western Sydney)
Major: Performance and Cultural History; Performance and science.
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Ray Goodlass
Major: Gay Theatre
Minor: Directing; Australian Stage Drama; Stage, film and television acting.

Dr Helena Grehan (Murdoch University)
Major: Post-colonial theory and performance; Interculturalism, Contemporary Australian performance; Critical analysis
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Dr Adrian Guthrie (University of South Australia)
Major: Contemporary performance; Intercultural performance practices
Minor: Dramaturgy

Dr Bree Hadley (Queensland University of Technology)
Major: Construction of identity in contemporary and pop cultural performance; Artists with disabilities; Live Art; Autobiographical Performance; Physical performance; Public space performance; Bodies in performance; Performativity; Performativity of Spectatorship.
Minor: Producing in the arts, cultural and creative industries; Production platforms in the arts, cultural and creative industries; Entrepreneurship; Enterpreneurship Education.

Ms Hilary Halba (University of Otago)
Major: Bicultural; theatre; post colonial theatre & drama; actor training.
Minor: Actor Training.

Mr Peter Hammond (University of Tasmania)
Major: Actor training; Community theatre; Directing - contemporary practices - writing.
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Ms Anita Harris-Satkunananthan (University of Queensland)
Major: Third generation postcolonial gothic literature / drama.
Minor: Mythic narrative.

Mr Johan Hartog (Flinders University of South Australia)
Major: Performance, cultural analysis of
Minor: Computer applications

Ms Linda Hassall (Griffith University)
Major: Practice-led research; New writing and new performance.
Minor: Performance Studies.

Ms Janys Hayes (University of Wollongong)
Major: Actor Training - Malmgren method; Phenomenology in Performance research; Documenting popular research; Embodiment in training & performance
Minor: Performance as research; Performance & feminism

GLENDON HILL
Major: Australian Film, Television & Theatre: Representations of the Myth of the Rock Star.
Minor: Non-verbal Symbolic Modes; Myth; Ritual; Cultural Production; Contemporary Popular Music; Politics of Representation.

Prof Julie Holledge (Flinders University)
Major: Acting theory; Women's Intercultural Performance.
Minor: Asian theatre - Philippines, Japan and Korea; Women's theatre - English suffragette theatre - contemporary English women's theatre.

Mr Andrew Holmes (Australian National University)
Major: Poetic Drama, particularly early- and -mid twentieth century, including Eliot, Yeats, Lorca and MacLeish.
Minor: Shakespearean Drama; Contemporary Australian Theatre; Theatre Semiotics; Dramaturgy.

Ms Tricia Hopton (University of Queensland)
Major: Contemporary Canadian and Australian drama; Theories of identity formation; Multiculturalism and Nationalism in Drama.
Minor: Dramaturgy; Theatre for Social Change.

Dr Mary Ann Hunter
Major: Community-based Performance; Youth-specific Performance; Performing Arts Festivals.
Minor: Cultural Policy; Performance and gender; Theatre in Education.

Ms Teresa Izzard (Curtin University / Edith Cowan University)
Major: Laban Movement Analysis / Bartenieff Fundamentals; Directing / Devising; Dramaturgy; Movement Training.
Minor:

R.J Jordan
Major: Australian theatre history - Convict theatre in Australia; Restoration comedy; Restoration Masquerade.
Minor: Popular theatre; Cultural politics.

Ms Veronica Kelly (University of Queensland)
Major: Australian theatre contemporary; Colonial theatre history.
Minor: Historiography of theatre; Melodrama and nineteenth-century popular theatrical forms; gender, costume, and popular performance

Prof Adrian Kiernander (University of New England)
Major: Physical Theatre and Dance Theatre in Australia, 1985-2000; Database of Australian Performing Arts (AusStage); Australian theatre history - late nineteenth century; Bell, John (Nimrod - Bell Shakespeare Company); Performance theory; Queer theatre.
Minor: French theatre contemporary - especially Ariane Mnouchkine and the Theatre du Soleil; Gender and performance; New Zealand theatre history- late 19th century. Minor: Elizabethan theatre; Jacobean theatre; Opera; The theatre of Alexander Dumas Pere.

Ms Natalie Lazaroo (University of Queensland)
Major: Physical Theatre; Actor Training; Buto.
Minor: Asian Theatre.

Dr Margaret Leask (N.I.D.A)
Major: Actresses Franchise League; First World War entertainment of troops; Lena Ashwell - actor / manager; Lena Ashwell Players, 1919-1929; Nineteenth-century and Edwardian English theatre.
Minor: Actor / Managers - management techniques; Old TOTE Theatre, NSW.

Dr Suzanne Little (University of Otago)
Major: Performance research & analysis; framing theory
Minor: Political Theatre

Dr Jacqueline Lo (Australian National University)
Major: Asian Diaspora; Indigenous Arts; Cultural Studies; Intercultural / Cross-cultural / Multicultural Arts.
Minor: German Arts.

Dr Paul Makeham (Queensland University of Technology)
Major: Postcolonial drama; Australian drama
Minor: Aboriginal drama; Community Cultural Development

Dr Jonathan Marshall (WAAPA, Edith Cowan University)
Major: France, Fin De Siecle, Butoh, Australian Dance & Music, History medicine & performance, Hysteria
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Dr Jacqueline Martin (QUT Creative Industries Faculty)
Major: Performance Research; Rehearsal Processes; Shakespeare; Voice and the actor.
Minor: The Theatrical Event; Festivals

Mr Marc Maufort (Universite Libre De Bruxelles)
Major: Eugene O'Neill; Australian Drama Contemporary; Aboriginal Australian Drama; Canadian Drama; New Zealand Contemporary Drama.
Minor: Contemporary Multicultural American Drama

Dr Ian Maxwell (University of Sydney)
Major: Sociology of Theatre; Theories of Acting; Contemporary Performance and Critical Theory.
Minor: Youth and Music Culture; Performance and the Law; Sport and Performance.

Ms Gay McAuley (University of Sydney)
Major: Rehearsal studies; Documentation of performance; Place/Space/Performance/Memory
Minor: Translation for performance.

Mr John McCallum (University of NSW)
Major: Twentieth Century Australian Theatre and Drama; Comedy, performance comedy, cabaret.
Minor: Postcolonial drama; Humour - especially cross-cultural humour.

Dr Robyn McCarron (Edith Cowan University)
Major: Performing Arts in Regional Communities; Community Theatre; Cultural/Arts Policies; Youth Theatre; Indigenous Theatre.
Minor:

Greg McCart (University of Southern Queensland)
Major: Ancient Greek theatre and drama; Text in performance.
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Dr Janet McDonald (University of Southern Queensland)
Major: Masculinities and body inscription in fiction; regional arts sustainability
Minor: Postcolonial, queer theory, and the interface between these; critical pedagogy, rural masculinities

Dr Ailsa McPherson
Major: Spectacle & public occasion in late nineteenth century Australia.
Minor: History of Television Production

A. F. Millett
Major: Auto/biography as theatre; Monodrama; Performance.
Minor: Multimedia in theatre.

Mr Geoffrey Milne (La Trobe University)
Major: Aboriginal drama contemporary; Australian theatre contemporary; Aboriginal Australian drama; Community Theatre; Puppetry.
Minor: Australian drama history; Multicultural/multilingual theatre; Young people's theatre; Youth theatre.

Ms Nita Mostafa Moghaddam (Monash University)
Major: Semiotics; Socio-semiotic analysis; Cultural semiotics; Modern drama; Postmodern drama; Absurdist movement; American Theatre and Drama.
Minor: Poetry; Modern Poetry.

Mr David O’Donnell (Victoria University)
Major: Post colonial Theatre; Maori Theatre, Pacific Island theatre, New Zealand theatre, Community Theatre, Theatre Directing, Theories of actor training
Minor: Shakespeare production

Dr Bruce Parr
Major: Gay, Lesbian, Queer Theatre Studies.
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Dr William Peterson (Monash University)
Major: Religion and theatre in the Philippines; Theatre in Singapore, Aotearoa/New Zealand ; intercultural theatre ; international festival culture
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Dr Maggi Phillips (WA Academy of Performing Arts)
Major: Australian dance, choreographic processes and inter-cultural perspectives
Minor: Performance Research - Practice Based

Ms Susan Pilbeam (Theatre Directions)
Major: Performance - Research Development
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Dr Kris Plummer
Major: Dramaturgy; Theatre for Young People; Postdramatic theatre; Drama and dance education; Devised theatre / Playbuilding; Australian playwrighting; German Kinder und Jugendtheatre.
Minor: Theatre History; Cultural Studies.

Ms Gaye Poole (University of Waikato)
Major: Australian Theatre; small/local theatre; non-profit theatre; Verbatim/Documentary; American theatre; Reminiscence Theatre.
Minor: Academics as Directors; Chicago Play writes - David Mamet& Rebecca Gilman.

Dr Alison Richards (University of Melbourne)
Major: Performance Theory; Cultural / Social Theory; Performance as Research; Community-based, cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural performance practice. performance; 
Minor: Feminist theory and performance; Voice Studies; Physical Theatre; Music Theatre / Opera; Cultural policy; Arts training and education.

Ms Meredith Rogers (La Trobe University)
Major: Performance-making; Text and Performance; Contemporary Australian Theatre Practice; Women's Theatre.
Minor: Community Theatre; Youth Theatre; Australian Theatre.

Rachael Romano
Major: Age constructs in performance; Ageism in Australian drama
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Dr Delyse Ryan (Australian Catholic University)
Major: Brisbane Theatre; Australian Drama; Theatre During the Wars; Parades and Pageants.
Minor: Editing Plays; Nineteenth-century Drama; Little Theatre.

Ms Elizabeth Schafer (Royal Holloway University of London)
Major: Australian drama; Renaissance Drama - especially Shakespeare and Middleton; Women Directors.
Minor: Canadian drama; New Zealand drama.

Anna Scheer (University of Melbourne)
Major: Social intervention and performance; Contemporary German theatre; Social dramaturgy; Live art and radical performance.
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Dr Edward Scheer (University of NSW)
Major: Artaud and Surrealism; Contemporary Australian Performance and Performance Art; Post-structuralist Theory.
Minor: Ecology & Performance; Multi-Media & Hybrid Genres.

Dr Rebecca Scollen (Queensland University of Technology)
Major: Audience Research, Reception & Development; Analysing Performance.
Minor: Arts Marketing.

Dr Mark Seton (University of Sydney)
Major: Actor Training practices & discourses; Performing artists healthcare; Digital technology & performance
Minor: Spirituality & performance experience

Ms Georgia Snowball (University of Sydney)
Major: Practice-led research; Processes of improvisation; Memory studies.
Minor: Documentation; New media; Installation.

Dr Yuji Sone (Macquarie University)
Major: Digital meditation and liveness; The body and technology; cross-cultural performance; Interaction between theory and practice in performance research; Japanese technoculture.
Minor: Everyday performance, subjectivity and identity in performance

Prof. Peta Tait (La Trobe University)
Major: Gender, bodies and performance - theories of; Circus - aerial performance - physical theatre; Theories of acting and performing Emotions; Chekhov - English-language studies of his texts; Feminism and theatre; Feminist Theatre - conceptual frameworks.
Minor: History, theory, and current interpretations of feminism; Women working in Australian theatre; Women's performance; Queer theory and performance; Internet, new technologies and performance.

Dr Joanne Tompkins (University of Queensland)
Major: Contemporary Australian drama (including Aboriginal); Critical theory - especially semiotics, feminism, spatial theories; Interculturalism; Multiculturalism; Post-colonial drama.
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Ms Karen Vickery (National Institute of Dramatic Art)
Major: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Russian Theatre; Actor Training - before Stanislavski, Stanislavski, Stanislavski now; Translations of Russian plays.
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Ms Elizabeth Webby
Major: Australian drama and theatre - history of early Australian drama; Performance and Reception; Women playwrights.
Minor: Melodrama; Pantomime; Nineteenth-century popular theatre.

Dr David Williams (University of Sydney / Version 1.0)
Major: Political Performance; Documentary Performance / Theatre; Hybrid Performance; Use of media technology in performance; Collaborative approaches to performance.
Minor: Performance improvisation; Physical Performance.

Rod Wissler (Queensland University of Technology)
Major: Contemporary performance - new technologies in; Festival culture; Regional Arts and community cultural development; Asian forms in Australian theatre.
Minor: Brecht in production; Solo performance models.

Jena Zelezny (University of Melbourne)
Major: Gender; Sexuality; Judith Butler; Staging/Writing Performativity; Performativity and culture; The critique of violence; Marginalised communities; Readings of Brecht.
Minor: Performance Analysis; Documentation of performance; Rehearsal method.

Last updated by Bree Hadley and Jonathan Bollen, July 2010.