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Dr Olivia Turnbull
Personal Statement
Senior Lecturer: Drama and Performing Arts. School of Music and Performing Arts.
BA [Trinity College, Dublin], MA [Tufts University, MA], PhD [Tufts University, MA]
Personal Statement:
Joined Bath Spa University after completing an MA and PhD at Tufts University in Massachusetts, USA. Her doctoral thesis examined the challenges facing theatres in Britain after the Second World War, and focusing on the effects of Thatcher and Blair, was revised and published by Intellect under the title Bringing Down the House in November 2008.
Prior to coming to BSU, Olivia worked as a lecturer in Performing Arts at Emerson College and Pine Manor College, both in Boston. Her professional background is in directing, and in addition to her academic work, has produced and directed numerous works across Britain and the United States.
Qualifications:
TUFTS UNIVERSITY, Boston, MA
• Ph.D. Drama. (Bringing Down the House: The Inevitable Crisis in Regional Theatres in Britain, 1979-2001). November 2004.
• MA (Drama). September, 2001
TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN
• Drama Studies and English Literature: BA, First Class Honours, Drama Studies and English Literature.November 1996.
DRAMA STUDIO: Postgraduate diploma in Directing. July 1997.
Teaching Specialisms:
Experimental Performance/Feminist Theatre/Site based Performance/Verbatim Performance/Applied Directing
Publications:
. Bringing Down the House; The Crisis in England's Regional Theatres (Intellect, 2008).
· Varying Viewpoints. Moments of Transition (Northumbria University Press. In press).
· Dreamthinkspeak; New Dimensions in Space. Moments of Transition (Northumbria University Press. In press).
· Columbia Encylopaedia for Modern American Drama: Paula Vogel, The Baltimore Waltz, John Patrick Shanley, Lanford Wilson, Fifth of July, Jose Rivera, and Albert Innaurato (Columbia University Press, 2007)
Conference Papers:
· Shunting Bodies through Space: Shunt Collective’s Re-siting of Performance. TaPRA, Leeds University, September 2008.
· We’re Virtually There; Blast Theory’s Dramatic Trust Games in Cyberspace. TaPRA, University of Birmingham, September 2007.
· Salisbury Playhouse: Theatre in Crisis. “The Glory of the Garden”, Liverpool JMU, September 2006.
· (Symposium: co-organiser) Site Specific Theatre - The Impact of the Setting. Bath Spa University, March 2006.
· Documentary Theatre and the Democratic Deficit. Association for Theatre in Higher Education, San Francisco, July 2005
· The Final Act: The Crisis in Regional Theatre in England, 1979-1997. “The Cost of Taste,” American Society for Theatre Research, Nevada, November, 2004.
· Shepards and Crooks; The Three Trials of Tectonic Theatre Project. American Culture Association conference, Louisiana, April 2003.
· Revisiting Laramie: The Theatre of Shame. Far West Popular Culture Association conference, Nevada, January 2003
· Pressing Bills: Satire, Politics, and the Wild West in the News. Far West Popular Culture Association Conference, Nevada, February 2002
· Picturing the Past: Dramatically Advertising America. Mid-America Theatre Conference, Chicago, March 2001
· Billboards and Ballyhoo. Tufts GSC, Boston, March 2001
· Changing Faces; From Indian to American. Far West Popular Culture Association conference, Nevada, February 2001
· The Right-and-Wrong of “Finn” and “Skin”, (Dramaturgical prologue, Skin of Our Teeth), Balch Arena, Boston, Spring 2001
Directing (post-2002):
. Jane Austen's Bath Time! (2010 & 2011)
· 28 Laburnum Road (2009)
. A Splendid Evening (2007)
· The Beckett Exhibition (2006)
· The Inkwell by Carloz Muniz (2005)
· The Adding Machine by Elmer Rice (2004)
· Out at Sea by Slawomir Mrozek (2003)
· The Bald Soprano by Eugene Ionesco (2003)
· Medea (After Euripides) by Liz Lochhead (2002)
· Black Comedy by Peter Shaffer (2002)
Contact Olivia Turnbull
Upcoming events:
Creative Music Technology Degree Show
Wed 23rd May 2012, 6:30pm
Commercial Music Degree Performance
Thu 24th May 2012, 8:00pm