Ian McNish (Subject Leader: Drama)

Personal Statement

Subject Leader: Drama. School of Music and Performing Arts.

Personal Statement:

I am Subject Leader of Drama Studies. Before joining Bath Spa University, I worked for a number of years as a consultant project manager/web project manager on behalf of JPMorganChase in London. Previously, I was manager of (and dramaturg for) for Taking Liberties Theatre Company in Queensland, Australia and a tutor at Griffith University.

My research interests lie in dramaturgy in actor training, in 'theatre as (world) citizenship' and in the interfaces between marketing, theatre and new media.

Professional Qualifications:

Master of Marketing Management, Griffith University, 2001

Master of Directing and Writing for Performance, University of Portsmouth, 2009

Certificate in Postgraduate Learning in Higher Education, 2010

Membership of Professional Bodies/Subject Associations:

Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas

International Federation of Theatre Research

Dramaturg's Network

Teaching Specialism:

Contextual Studies for Theatre; Dramaturgy

Key Publications/Exhibitions/Performances:

Sorry (a play about the Great Recession of 2007-9 featuring bankers in stocks). Performed University of Portsmouth Wiltshire Bldg Theatre, May 2009.

Dramaturg for Full Tilt Theatre Company 2005-2008, including:

Dramaturgy for Full Tilt Theatre Company's 2006 production of A Cool Billion - playing Michael Tippett Centre, The ARC Trowbridge, the Rondo

Dramaturg for Full Tilt Theatre Company's 2006 production of Gunduz Kalic's adaptation of Hamlet (Bath Spa University campus/Bath Shakespeare Festival and Minack Theatre, Cornwall)

Dramaturg for Full Tilt Theatre Company's production That's Twice (Rerooted): Edinburgh Festival 2005

Nationally televised debate with Australian Minister for the Arts, Insight, SBS-TV, 1999

Dramaturgy for Taking Liberties Theatre Company (Brisbane Australia):
Honest T (a new play) 2000
A Country Wife - a new adaptation 1997
Gulls - TLTC Constance Street venue, Fortitude Valley 1996
Taming of the Shrew - a new adaptation 1994/1995
Repertory of seven Globetrotters Banquet Theatre events 1994-1999

'The Unconscious Civilisation', Review of the John Ralston Saul book of that name, The Adelaide Review, 1996

Current Scholarship:

PhD studies in Drama at the University of Exeter.

Shut-yer face theatre: the silence of Peter Brook, conference paper presented at International Federation of Theatre Research (IFTR) 2010 Annual Conference (Theatrical Events Working Group), Munich, July.

Boiling Frogs Manifesto: Climate Change, Theatre and Death, conference paper presented at Globalisation and Writing conference, Bath Spa University, June 2007.

Boiling Frogs: Theatre as (World) Citizenship in the Age of Climate Change, conference paper presented at the International Federation of Theatre Research (IFTR) 2006 Annual Conference in Helsinki, Finland (August).

World Dionysia - research on stadia theatre and televisual ritual.

Recent Professional Updating:

International Federation of Theatre Research 2010 Annual Conference in Munich, Germany

Theatre Applications, 2010 conference at Central School of Speech and Drama, London

International Federation of Theatre Research 2009 Annual Conference in Lisbon, Portugal

International Federation of Theatre Research 2008 Annual Conference in Seoul, Korea

International Federation of Theatre Research 2006 Annual Conference in Helsinki, Finland

1956, 1968, 1979, 1995: New Historiographies of Post-War British Theatre, Royal Holloway, May 2006

Site Specific Theatre - the Impact of the Setting, PALATINE, Bath Spa University, March 2006

Historiography and Interdisciplinarity, Royal Holloway, February 2006