Dr Terri Power

Personal Statement

Personal Statement

Senior Lecturer: Performing Arts & Drama. School of Music and Performing Arts.

Terri is a Senior Lecturer in Performing Arts and Drama Studies. She holds a BA in Theatre-Acting from UCLA, an MFA in Staging Shakespeare from the University of Exeter and a PhD in Performance Practice. Terri has worked as a professional actor with numerous theatre companies and also in film and television in Los Angeles. Some highlights of her career include being featured in Man on the Moon: The Andy Kauffman Story, O' Brother Where Art Thou, End of Days, and Inherit the Wind (remake) with Jack Lemon and George C. Scott. Other highlights include working with the SITI company, Marcel Marceau, The Wooster Group, Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, Tadashi Endo, The Queen's Company, Universal Studios and Disney. Before arriving at Bath Spa University, Terri taught Drama at the University of Exeter and served as a director and resident playwright for the Shake-scene Players. Terri directed a cross-cast production of Taming of the Shrew and toured the production throughout the UK in the spring and summer of 2009. The production received critical acclaim and positive media attention.

Personal Statement:

"We teach best what we need to learn most" - Everyday Zen

"Every day is a good day, above ground!" - Wise Old Friend

Professional Qualifications:

CPLHE - Certificate of Professional Learning in Higher Education

CBEST in teaching.

Certificate in unarmed and Rapier and Dagger stagecombat with the BASSC - British Association for Stage and Screen Combat.

Membership of Professional Bodies/Subject Associations:

Member of the following professional Unions:

AEA - Actor's Equity Association
AGVA - American Guild of Variety Artists
IATSE- International Association of Theatre and Stage Employees
WGGB - Writers Guild of Great Britain

Also member of:

FRN - The Feminist Research Network
LGBT - Lesbian, Gay Bisexual and Trans-gender Society
Women in the Arts Network
Wimminsland Co-operative, Wales
SCUDD

Teaching Specialism:

Areas of interest include -

SHAKESPEARE and Gender in performance, drama of diversity: particularly queer, gay and lesbian performance, feminist theatre, and Native American drama. Actor training, Stanislavsky/strasberg based approach with incorporation of Japanese based performance training approaches including the work of Tadashi Suzuki and Yoshi Oida along with Butoh. Psycho-physical approaches to performances with Yoga and martial arts influences. Voice training - particularly Berry, Rodenburg and Jones. Postmodern performance, performance art, intermediality in performance, and ensemble work.

Key Publications/Exhibitions/Performances:

Publications:

"For Queer Eyes Only?: Creating Queer Performance Art at University" in Graduate Journal of Social Science, April 1 2009. Web link - http://www.gjss.org/index.php/gjss.org-current-issue/Vol-6-Issue-1-April-2009.html/
"Sonic Trans-dressing: Somewhere In Between" in Gender and the Voice, VASTA 2007.
"Drag Kings" in the Encyclopedia of Gender and Society, Sage publ., 2007.
"Sexual Politics" for the Archives of Sexual Behaviour, Springer publ., 2006.

Reviews:
"Anne Bogart" For Studies in Theatre and Performance, 2007.

Papers:

"Strong Will'ed Women vs Desperate Shakespearean Housewives" for Women and Performance Journal.

"Trans-dressing the Stage: From Drag King to Female Player" First presented at the Gender Performance conference, Leeds, 2006.

"Trans-Atlantic Female Players: Women Performing Masculinity in Shakespeare's Plays" presented at the Women - Shakespeare - Theatre Conference 2010 held at Pazmany Peter Catholic University in Piliscaba Hungary.

ShakesQueer: Bearded Women, Men in Tights presented at the ATHE conference in Chicago 2011.