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Eduardo Abrantes
Eduardo concluded the Gulbenkian Deutsche Film und Fernsehakademie, Berlin directing course in 2007 and he is preparing his joint PhD candidacy to FCSH UNL/KHiO Oslo Academy of Fine Art in the fields of philosophy and film in the context of artistic practice.
Betsy Allen
A Certified Associate Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework, Betsy fuses this technique with improvisational singing. She teaches at London Metropolitan University, Millennium Dance, Kingston College and The Actors Centre. She is also a certified and practising Pilates instructor.
Sarah Angliss
Trained in electroacoustics, music and evolutionary robotics, Sarah specialises in creating sound installations, exhibits and live performances that mix sonic arts and robotics with little-known stories from the history of science.
Joe Banks
A sound installation artist, writer, lecturer, and AHRC-funded Research Fellow in the creative and performing arts at Goldsmiths College, University of London, Joe Banks is the founder of the sound art project Disinformation.
Paul Barker
Paul Barker is Central’s Professor of Music Theatre and the composer of several operas and theatre works. Current commissions include work for COMA Choir for 2009 and a new opera/music theatre work for Teatro de Ciertos Habitantes, to be premiered in 2009 in Mexico.
Yvon Bonenfant
Yvon is Senior Lecturer in performing arts at the University of Winchester. He has held residencies in France, Canada and Portugal and is an overseas research associate of the IDEAT Inter-Arts Research Centre of the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne. yvonbonenfant.com
Jeanne Bovet
Bovet is Associate Professor in French literature and language at University of Montreal, where she teaches the history and aesthetics of theatre. She is interested in the aesthetics of voice and is conducting research into the oratorical inscription of déclamation in 17th Century French drama.
Jessica Bowles
Jessica Bowles worked as a set and costume designer for RSC, Young Vic and many others. She is Principal Lecturer and Course Leader in theatre practice at Central. She is head of the Centre for Excellence in Training for Theatre and is co-director of Theatre Noise.
Ross Brown
Ross is Central’s Dean of Studies, and as a Reader in Sound researches theatre sound and aurality – recently completing the AHRC-funded Noise Memory Gesture, studying the aural theatre of the minute’s silence. His Reader in Theatre Sound is published by Palgrave later this year.
Michael Bull
Zeynep Bulut
Bulut studied sociology, opera, and visual arts in Istanbul. She is currently a PhD candidate at UC San Diego, with an emphasis on experimental practices in music. Her essay The Problem of Archiving Sound Works is published in UCLA’s Pacific Review of Ethnomusicology.
Ben Challis
Ben is a musician and technologist with specific interests in human/computer interaction, the accessibility of instruments and music performance. He is a Senior Lecturer in popular music at the Cardiff School of Creative and Cultural Industries, University of Glamorgan.
Yilin Chen
Yilin obtained a PhD in the stage history of Twelfth Night from the drama and theatre department at Royal Holloway, University of London. She is presently an Assistant Professor of English language, literature and linguistics at Providence University in Taiwan.
Marcus Cheng Chye Tan
Currently pursuing a PhD at Trinity College, Dublin, Marcus’s research interest lies in interculturalism with specific regard to the performativity of sound in intercultural performance. Published in several academic journals, he has taught at the National University of Singapore.
Adam Collis
Liverpool-born Adam worked extensively in SE Asia as a lecturer in music and music technology. He received his MA in digital music technology from the University of Keele and is currently a Senior Lecturer in music technology and e-music at Coventry University.
Adrian Curtin
Adrian is a doctoral candidate in the PhD programme in theatre and drama at Northwestern University, Illinois. His dissertation Soundscapes of the European Theatrical Avant-Garde tracks the use of experimental sound in the modernist theatrical avant-garde.
Robert Dean
Robert is a Lecturer in drama and popular music at the University of Glamorgan. His thesis focused upon the parallel functions of musical material in late nineteenth-century theatre and twentieth-century sound film. He has recently worked on a stage adaptation of The Evil Dead.
Martin Delaney
Martin Delaney is a certified Ableton Live Trainer, and has been using and teaching it since version 1.5. He writes the Ableton Live Tips & Tricks series of books, produces the popular Ableton Live 101 training movies for MacProVideo and writes the monthly Live tutorials for Future Music.
Daniel Deshays
Deshays has produced and recorded more than 250 records, conceived and worked on museographic sound spaces and participated in the 1789 Bicentennial. He is head of the teaching of sound at the ENSATT (École nationale des arts et techniques du théâtre, Lyon).
John Downie
Head of sound at the École Nationale des Arts du Théâtre, Lyons, Desays' paper Staging Sound: A Matter of Dissociation considers the choice made in the listening act to allocate our attention span according to what we wish to hear.
Caroline Downing
Carolyn is a sound designer whose credits include After Dido (ENO at Young Vic), Flight Path (Out Of Joint), Moonshed (Royal Exchange, Manchester), Alaska (Royal Court, Jerwood Theatre Upstairs) and Blood Wedding (Almeida). Carolyn trained at The Central School of Speech and Drama.
Jill Dowse
Jill is a theatre, music and voice practitioner, and co-artistic director of The Bone Ensemble. She is a Lecturer in drama at the University of Hull, with research interests in voice, site-specific performance, devising and performer training.
John Levack Drever
John is a soundscape researcher and sonic artist focusing on environmental sound and human utterance. He is a Lecturer in composition and head of the Unit for Sound Practice Research at Goldsmiths, University of London. In 2001 he was awarded a PhD from Dartington College of Arts.
Zachary Dunbar
A writer, director and composer, Dunbar’s career began as a concert pianist. He teaches on the MA Performance Practices and Research at Central. His PhD thesis at Royal Holloway (University of London) consisted of an interdisciplinary approach to the singing of tragic chorus.
Rowena Easton & Mike Blow
Machines for Singing is a collaboration between Brighton artist Rowena Easton and electronic engineer Mike Blow. Blow is studying for a PhD in human-robot interaction at the University of Hertforshire and lectures in digital arts at the University of Brighton.
Barry Edwards
As a director and theatre maker Edwards has toured internationally for over 30 years. He holds a Readership in the Centre for Contemporary and Digital Performance at Brunel University. He is currently the director of the performance group Optik.
Mikael Eriksson
Helsinki-born Mikael is a doctoral student at the Department of Lighting and Sound Design of the Theatre Academy of Finland. His text-sound work Death Demands premiered at the Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival in 2007.
Rose Fenton
An arts producer and advisor, Rose co-founded the London International Festival of Theatre and co-directed it for 25 years. Her recent arts policy work includes the Cultural Olympiad and arts strategy for the London Olympic Park. She was awarded an OBE for services to drama in 2005.
Gregg Fisher
Gregg is Senior Lecturer in theatre sound design at Central. His composition and sound design for Terrorism was shortlisted for an award at the Toronto 2005 World Stage Design Festival. Gregg was co-ordinator of the SoundPark Exhibition at the 2006 Prague Quadrennial.
Catherine Fitzmaurice
A student of Barbara Bunch and Cicely Berry, Catherine returned to teach voice at Central before emigrating to the USA, where she completed an MA at the University of Michigan. She has taught at the Juilliard school, Yale School of Drama, Harvard and NYU.
Gareth Fry
Sound designer Gareth Fry received the Laurence Olivier Award in 2007 for Waves, and again in 2009 for Black Watch, which also received the Helpmann Award (Australia) in 2008. Gareth trained at The Central School of Speech & Drama in theatre design.
Wendy Gadian
Senior Lecturer in music theatre at Central, Wendy studied piano and cello at Chetham’s School of Music, Manchester and as a postgraduate at the Royal Northern College of Music. She has worked extensively as a musical director and musical arranger in London and throughout the UK.
Eva Maria Gauss
Eva, also known as Petra Lum, is a performer in experimental theatre based in Halle, Germany. She holds an MA in philosophy and theatre studies from the University of Leipzig and is studying a five-year degree in voice, speech and phonetics at Halle University.
Paul Gillieron
Themelis Glynatsis
Themelis completed his PhD on the significance of language in Artaud’s theatre of cruelty (University of London, 2004). He taught drama and theatre at Queen Mary (University of London) and has since given invited lectures at the Universities of Athens and Thessaloniki.
Paul Groothuis
An award-winning sound designer with a prolific career, Paul was born in Holland and studied stage management at Central. He has designed sound for over 120 productions at the NT and has been visiting lecturer at the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts.
CÉcile GuÉdon
Cecile is a PhD candidate at Birkbeck College, London, holiding a DEA in comparative literature from La Sorbonne-Paris-IV and an MA in European culture from UCL. She is a member of the Association for the Study of Comparative Theory and History of Literature.
Stephen Heath
Stephen is a workshop technician here at The Central School of Speech and Drama. He will be entertaining the Theatre Noise conference with a recital of the Australian Aboriginal digeridoo during Wednesday evening’s reception.
Gavin Henderson
Gavin established the Wilde Theatre in Bracknell before developing the South Hill Park Arts Centre.In 1984, he became Artistic Director of the Brighton Festival. He has numerous honorary degrees and fellowships, a CBE, and is Principal of The Central School of Speech and Drama.
George Home-Cook
Since 2006 George has been working towards a PhD in drama at Queen Mary, University of London with research centering on the phenomenology of speech-as-sound in drama in particular the phenomenal experience of listening in performance and auditory perception.
Falk Hubner
Recently Falk has developed his own concept of (music-)theatre on the boundaries between music, installation and performance in the context of his PhD research project Identities in between at the University of Leiden (Netherlands) and the Orpheus Institue Gent/DocARTES (Belgium).
Lynne Kendrick
Lynne lectures in drama and is a CETT fellow at Central. She is a founder member and director of Camden People’s Theatre and is a researcher at Goldsmiths, London in ludic performance practices. She has recently documented the work of John Wright and Philippe Gaulier.
Ioannis Kotsonis
Ioannis is a PhD candidate in film studies (University of Swansea) investigating tragic forms in European cinema. He has composed electronic music for theatre, film and dance and released his debut album Manichope Sessions 01 on Post Digital records in 2005.
Danijela Kulezic-Wilson
Danijela studied musicology at the University of Belgrade and obtained her PhD at the University of Ulster. Her thesis investigated analogies between film and music as autonomous arts. Her present research explores film as a musical medium and the musicality of silence in film.
Alice Lagaay
Lagaay studied philosophy and literature at the University of Edinburgh and Freie Universität, Berlin. A research fellow in philosophy at the collaborative research centre Cultures of the Performative in Berlin, her research focuses on the performativity of silence and secrets.
Jean-Marc Larrue
Jean-Marc Larrue is co-director of the Research Center on Intermediality at Université de Montréal (Canada). As Professor of theatre history and theory, his research mainly focuses on theatre in Quebec. And he is the author or co-author of several works on this topic.
Andy Lavender
Andy Lavender is Professor in Contemporary Theatre at Cental and its Dean of Research. He is the Artistic Director of the theatre/performance company Lightwork and has devised a number of mixed-media productions for venues including ICA, BAC and Lyric Hammersmith.
Fabrizio Manco
Fabrizio is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice includes visual, performance/live art, drawing and video. He has trained in art in Italy and London (Slade School, UCL) and has also trained in Butoh and performance in Italy, England and Japan.
Lise Marker
Tara McAllister-Viel
Lecturer in voice at Central, Tara has worked as an actor, voice coach and director in the USA and abroad for 17 years. She received her PhD in voice from the University of Exeter and was also Visiting Professor, Voice, at the Korean National University of the Arts, Seoul.
Neil McArthur
Neil is a music director, arranger and actor. His credits as a music director include Tutti Frutti (King’s Theatre, Glasgow) and The Villains’ Opera (National Theatre). He has worked as an arranger on A Streetcar Named Desire at the National and Bad Girls (West Yorkshire Playhouse).
Mike McInerney
McInerney is lecturer in music at the University of Plymouth. He plays the Japanese shakuhachi flute as an interface for live technology. His work combines musical performance with live sound. In the past three years, he has presented his work at new music festivals throughout Europe.
Marie-Madeleine Mervant-Roux
French coordinator of the project Sound Technologies and the Theater, Mervant-Roux is a researcher at the CNRS (ARIAS) and she is Associate Professor at Université de Paris III – Sorbonne Nouvelle. Her research is concerned with audiences and various living forms of theatre.
Liz Mills
Mills is a senior lecturer in drama at the University of Cape Town where she teaches theatre voice, acting and directing. She runs the Drama Residency, a programme that brings professional theatre practitioners and students together to work on creative projects.
Frank Millward
Millward lectures in digital media art, multimedia composition and performance at Kingston University, London. Since 1982 he has composed and performed for film, television and theatre, crossing genres of audio art, sound design, jazz, electroacoustic and orchestral music.
Katarina Moraitis
Katerina is Lecturer in Voice at Central. She is the only Certified Lessac Specialist in the UK. Head of Voice at Northumbria University from 1998 to 2004, during that time she worked with leading North-East theatre companies, such as Northern Stage and Live Theatre.
Misha Myers
Trained in dance and anthropology, Myers is a live artist and lecturer who creates dialogic events that invite an active, embodied and self-determined participation. Her recent work has been shown in Spacex Gallery’s Homeland exhibition and Millais Gallery’s Art in the Age of Terrorism.
Eran Natan
Eran is a graduate of the Sesame MA drama and movement therapy programme and a qualified special needs and drama teacher. Trained as an actor at the Room Theatre in Israel, he works as a dramatherapist, focusing on voice exploration and facilitates guest workshops here at Central.
Jeanette Nelson
Jeannette Nelson is Head of Voice at the National Theatre. She has worked extensively as a voice and dialect coach in theatre, film and TV.
Chris Newell
After a distinguished career in opera, assisting Trevor Nunn and Peter Hall (and teaching at many prestigious music colleges), Newell retrained in digital media and now lectures in this at the University of Hull while completing his PhD in computer science at the University of York.
Debbie O’Brien
Debbie O’Brien is a casting director who has worked extensively in London’s West End and on national and international touring productions. Her credits include Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Criterion), Grease (Piccadilly), Saturday Night Fever (Apollo Victoria) and Rent (Shaftesbury).
Daniël Ploeger
Daniël is a Dutch musician, performer and multimedia artist. He is associate tutor for experimental music theatre at the University of Sussex music department. He is also active as a trombonist with the Kammerensemble Neue Musik group, Berlin. danielploeger.org
Laura Purcell Gates
Laura is a physical theatre practitioner, teacher and scholar who recently relocated to the UK. She is currently completing her PhD in theatre arts at the University of Minnesota, writing her doctoral thesis on the (re)construction of the body in physical theatre pedagogy.
Marco Pustianaz
Pustianaz is Associate Professor of English literature and theatre at Università del Piemonte Orientale, Vercelli (Italy). He has co-edited two collections of queer/gender studies: Generi di traverso (Queer Genders, 2000) and Maschilità decadenti (Decadent Masculinities, 2004).
Caroline Radcliffe
Caroline trained as a musician at the Royal College of Music. She also trained as an actor, and teaches drama and theatre studies, at Birmingham University. Caroline wrote her PhD on the Victorian clog dancer Dan Leno and has held a long-standing passion for this Lancastrian art.
Dan Rebellato
Dan is Professor of Contemporary Theatre at Royal Holloway, London. His books include 1956 and All That and the Routledge Companion to European Theatre Directors. His performance art piece Theatremorphosis is currently on display at the Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow.
Matthias Rebstock
Professor of Scenic Music at the University of Hildesheim, Germany, Rebstock is also a director of contemporary music theatre, with works shown at a number of major festivals. He is the author of Composition between Music and Theatre – The Instrumental Theatre of Mauricio Kagel.
John Rigby
David Roesner
David is the author of Theatre as Music (Tübingen 2003). He has taught at Hildesheim, Bern and Mainz and is currently a Senior Lecturer in drama at Exeter University. Examples of his practical work can be seen at spa.ex.ac.uk
Katharina Rost
Currently working as a research assistant in the DFG-project Kulturen des Performativen – www.sfb-performativ.de – in the project group Voices as Paradigms of the Performative at Freie Universität, Berlin, Katharina is also working on a dissertation on auditive attention in theatre.
George Sampatakakis
George is Lecturer at the Department of Theatre Studies, University of Patras, Greece and Special Consultant on theatre of the Greek National Centre for Theatre and Dance. He specialises in Greek theatre and its reception, as well as in theatre and performance theory.
Nichola Scrutton
A composer/performer pursuing a PhD in electro-acoustic composition at Glasgow University, Nichola’s recent works have been performed in Glasgow and worldwide. Her projects investigate the relationship between improvisational vocal performance and studio composition.
Derek Shiel
Derek is a painter, sculptor and writer interested in developing links between the visual arts and music. He is Artistic Director of the ensemble Sculpted Sound, performing at art galleries, music festivals, theatres and on UK radio and television. www.sculptedsound.com
P.A. Skantze
Skantze is Reader in the Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies Department at Roehampton University, London. She has been teaching across the disciplines of theatre history, theatre practice, writing and performance since her postgraduate experience at Columbia University.
Roger Smart
Assistant Professor of Theatre at Milikin University, Oklahoma, Smart has directed extensively in North Carolina and Chicago and has taught voice, dialects, and acting. He has trained in voice with Catherine Fitzmaurice, Dudley Knight, Patsy Rodenburg and at the Roy Hart Centre in France.
Rob Smith
Rob is a composer, performer and improviser, as well as being Senior Lecturer in popular music at ATRiuM, University of Glamorgan. He has composed scores for films, television and theatre, in addition to working with BBC Radio 3, Moving Being, Hijinx and Dance Wales.
Philip Stanier
Philip is Programme Leader for performing arts at the University of Winchester. He is also Artistic Director of the Strange Names Collective, whose recent The Gratitude of Monsters is touring nationally. Information on the group can be found at strangenamescollective.co.uk
Danae Stefanou
Danae is a Lecturer at the Department of Music Studies, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She studied musicology and piano performance (PhD, University of London) and has performed widely as a soloist. In 2008 she launched La Situation Conga an improvisational collective.
Atau Tanaka
Tanaka holds degrees in physical sciences from Harvard University, and a doctorate in computer music composition from Stanford University. He joined Newcastle University in October 2007 and holds the Chair in Digital Media. In 2009 he was named Acting Director of Culture Lab.
Melissa Van Drie
A PhD candidate at the Institute of Theatre Studies at the Université Paris 3 - New Sorbonne, Melissa’s doctoral work considers how the mediatised listening that developed from sound reproduction technologies impacted French theatre in conception, performance and reception.
Cathy Van Eck
Cathy studied composition and electronic music at the Royal Conservatory, The Hague and the University of the Arts, Berlin. Her work includes compositions for instruments, live-electronics and self-made sound objects. She teaches at the University of the Arts in Bern, Switzerland.
Éric Vautrin
Vautrin is Associate Professor (maître de conférences) at the University of Caen Basse-Normandie and member of ARIAS, CNRS laboratory on intermediality and the performing arts. He is also the artistic director of a poetry and performance festival La Poésie/Nuit.
Craig Vear
Vear is a composer and musician. Since the early 1990s he has worked in electroacoustic, improvised, contemporary and popular music. He has composed for theatre and film, creates sound installations and sound art; and was drummer for the critically-acclaimed band Cousteau.
Donato Wharton
Currently Sound Manager for the Robert Lepage/Ex Machina production Le Dragon Bleu, London-based musician and designer Wharton has released three albums on the City Centre Offices label. He trained in sound design for theatre at The Central School of Speech and Drama.
Gareth White
Lecturer in community performance and applied theatre at Central, Gareth was an actor and director specialising in work with community groups. His analysis of The Red Room’s Unstated will be published in Smart and Mermikides’ Devising in Process (Palgrave) later this year.
Tim White
Associate Professor in theatre, performance and cultural policy studies at the University of Warwick, Tim was co-editor of Design for Performance: Diaghilev to the Pet Shop Boys. His research interests include new technology in performance; and the internet and virtual identity.
John Wild
John has worked as an actor, director and voice teacher for 28 years. He is currently Head of Voice at the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts. John is a recognised Roy Hart voice teacher, offering workshops both in London and at the Roy Hart Centre in the south of France.
Dot Young
Dot is Lecturer in prop-making at Central. She trained at Sheffield University in Fine Art and went on to collaborate on performance art-based projects and also to develop photographic collage time-based work. Her current developing research is focused on objects, sound and text.