I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and have been a fixed-term teacher at the University of Essex since 2016-17, teaching Writing for Theatre, Writing for Radio and, since 2023-24, Eco-Theatre, a new full-year undergraduate module which I academically designed.
In 2023 I gained a PhD in Theatre Studies, my doctoral thesis re-evaluating the role of naturalism in contemporary eco-theatre.
January 2024
I delivered a paper titled “Wild Dramaturgy: ecotone as a site of tension in Steve Waters’ On the Beach” at the “Wilding Performance” Intersections Conference at the Royal School of Speech and Drama in London.
February 2024
My book review “Towards an Ecocritical Theatre: Playing theAnthropocene by Mohebat Ahmadi” was published by the academic journal “Green Letters: studies in ecocriticism”.
March 2024
In March 2024 I delivered a seminar titled “Radical Dramaturgies of the Anthropocene” at the New School of the Anthropocene in London where I am also a postgraduate supervisor.
December 2024
My article “Theatre, Ecology and the Secret Life of Naturalism” was published in the special ‘Theatre and Ecology’ edition of the peer-reviewed, open access journal Critical Stages:
I chaired the panel discussion “Dramatizing Species Loss”, at the University of East Anglia’s symposium Song of the Reeds: Re-Wilding Drama, with panellists Tim Strudwick (Mid Yare Reserves Site Manager for RSPB) and playwright and eco-activist Sarah Woods.