PhD
Since October 2021, I have been a part-time PhD student at the University of Leeds undertaking practice research at the School of Performance and Cultural Industries.
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RESEARCH SUMMARY
My doctoral practice research combines performance and translation. I investigate theatre through devising, performing, and translating productions in collaboration with professional artists in Britain and Germany.
I am interested in what happens when theatre travels across national and linguistic borders: how texts shift in translation, how performances change, and what can be learned from performers presenting the same work in different languages and cultural contexts.
My first project, As The Crow Flies, was developed with German theatre artists in partnership with Globe Berlin, where it premiered in July 2022. After a successful summer run, I translated the piece into English and performed it in Manchester and Leeds later that year.
My second project, Phobia, was created with an interdisciplinary team of UK-based artists in partnership with Stage@Leeds and Waterside Arts Centre (Sale). It premiered in Leeds in June 2025 and was later translated into German. The German version premiered in June 2026 at Theater an der Glocksee, Hanover. The project was funded by Arts Council England.
www.thisisphobia.com
AWARDS
2025 Winner of AHC Partnership Award – The Research Experience at the University of Leeds for “Student-Staff Partnership of the Year”
2024 Nomination for Partnership Award at the University of Leeds for “Postgraduate Researcher of the Year“
2024 Nomination for Partnership Award at the University of Leeds for “Innovation Award”
RESEARCH PROJECTS
2025 “Emotions in Protest and Resistance”, funded by Research Innovation, School of LCS, University of Leeds, ROLE: Creative Workshop Facilitator
2024-25 “SPEAK UP!”, a National Theatre research programme, ROLE: Research Assistant
2023-24 “Ways of Knowing”, funded by Research England’s Enhancing Research Culture (ERC), ROLE: Researcher and Creative Workshop Facilitator
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
June 2026 – German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English, 34th Annual Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, PhD Forum, presentation title: “Transnational Theatre-Making between Germany and the U.K.: A Practice-Based Investigation”
Oct 2025 – Creative Methods as Research, University of Warwick, presentation title: “Un-disciplining German Studies: Collaborative Approaches Across Boundaries” (co-presented with Nicole Bögelein, Louise Earnshaw and Ingrid Sharp)
Aug 2023 – Performance Studies International, Johannesburg, South Africa, presentation title: “As The Crow Flies – Exploring Identity through Making and Migrating Performances“