Biography

Before joining the Department of Dance, Film and Theatre at Surrey, I led undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in Theatre and Performance at the University of Hull and worked as a researcher for PALATINE (the UK Performing Arts Learning and Teaching Innovation Network), based at Lancaster University and now part of the Higher Education Academy. As part of this work I contributed to the first national survey of practice as research PhDs in the UK and conducted a survey of needs and diversity in British performing arts departments.

My wider teaching and research interests include contemporary theatre practice; writing, text and devising in performance; performance theory and television drama. I write, direct and perform, demonstrating a strong commitment to the combination of theory and practice.

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Research Interests

I am currently preparing a monograph on the performance of the past at visitor attractions.  This work focuses particularly on UK attractions and the breadth of performance practice that exists in museums, galleries, heritage sites, shopping malls, theme parks and urban and rural landscapes.

Research Collaborations

Performing the Archive

I am a member of the Performing the Archive research group in the Department of Dance, Film and Theatre, with particular interests in place and the body as archives.

Distance and Spectacle

In June I presented a joint panel as part of the Distance and Spectacle research group, with Dr Helen Hughes (Film Studies, Surrey) and Kate Lawrence (Dance, Surrey)

Walking Between

I have conducted research and created practical performance work with Dr Fiona Bannon (Leeds University) and am preparing future work on 'walks between'.

Publications

Publications

2008  Walking Between: Through Place and Practice, Stuart Andrews and Fiona Bannon in Cecchetto et al, Collision: Interarts Practice and Research (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press) p.163-178

2007  A Performance Cosmology: Testimony from the future, evidence of the past Book review, Studies in Theatre and Performance vol 27: 3, 2007, p307-308

Published Conference Proceedings

2007  TIDE (IDEart), Stuart Andrews, Arminda Lopes, Julie MacDermott, Chris Newell, in Wright and Dare, Culture, Creativity and Interaction Design (CCID) Symposium Proceedings (University of York, 2007), p63-65, ISBN: 978-1-900640-42-8 (paper)

2005  Spaces of Silence: Performing Spectatorship in the Millennium Dome, in Picard and Robinson (eds.), Tourism and Performance: Scripts, Stages and Stories: Conference Proceedings (Sheffield Hallam University)ISBN 1-84387-156-4

 2001  Exposing Impermanence: A Collaboration between Photography, Performance and Bulldozers in Playdon (ed.), Consuming (in) the War Zone Conference Proceedings (Coventry University, 2001) ISBN 190381801X.  Invited to attend conference.

 2000  Performing in Never Never Land at the Trafford Centre in Playdon (ed.), Living in a Material World: Conference Proceedings (Coventry University, 2000): ISBN 0905949846

Reports

2003  Regulations and Protocols governing ‘Practice as Research’ (PaR) in the performing arts in the UK leading to the award of PhD, Robin Nelson, Stuart Andrews (funded by PALATINE), http://www.bristol.ac.uk/parip/artexts.htm

Performances/installations at conferences/festivals

2008  please wait with me, Stuart Andrews, Alistair Edwards, Chris Newell, Ian Gibson.  Sightsonic: York International Festival of Digital Arts (installation)

2007  Call Centre, Stuart Andrews, Alistair Edwards, Chris Newell, Ian Gibson, Digital Music Research Network, Leeds Metropolitan University (installation)

2006  Walking Between: Place and Practice, Stuart Andrews, Fiona Bannon, Collision Symposium, University of Victoria, Canada (installation)

2006  TIDE (IDEart), Stuart Andrews, Arminda Lopes, Julie MacDermott, Chris Newell, Engage: BCS HCI Group conference in co-operation with ACM, Queen Mary University of London.  Art/science project awarded £1900 from Leonardo Net, funded by the EPSRC (installation)

Performances/installations

2006  perhaps these are the beginnings (director), University of Hull,    Scarborough (module performance)

2004  And I Found Myself Here (director), University of Hull, Scarborough (module performance)

2000  Hotel (performer) Midland Grand Hotel, Morecambe, Dir. Geraldine Pilgrim

1999  The Good Will Out (musician) Lancaster; Chester College, Dir. Miller/Whalley

1999  George Brown (director) Cumbria, funded by National Trust

1998  Dry Run (writer) included in Rough Magic, Dukes Theatre, Lancaster

1998  Townend Tales, (writer, director, performer) Cumbria, funded by National Trust

1998  Voices from the Recent Future, (ass. director), Dir. Pete Brooks, Stockport

Selected Conference/Research Papers 

April 2008  Thinking Again: Spectating Conflict at the Royal Armouries, Performing Heritage: Research and Practice, Manchester University (paper)

March 2008  Walking Between/Between Walking, Stuart Andrews, Fiona Bannon, Creativity and Walking: Land2 Colloquium, Leeds University (paper/installation)

July 2002  Playing Dead on Fashion Street: The Missing Voice (Case Study B), International Federation of Theatre Research (FIRT/IFTR), Amsterdam

Jan 2002, Awake in the Dreamhouse: Disneyland Paris and the Paris Arcades, Americanisation Launch Seminar, University of Central Lancashire, by invitation

Sept 2001, Beamish and the Politics of Nostalgia, Victorian Performances, Lancaster University

June 2001, Walking Without Dinosaurs: Absent Industrialism at Wigan Pier, Navigating the Material World, Brighton University

 June 2000, Colonial Couture at the Trafford Centre, Relocating Britishness, University of Central Lancashire

 April 1999, Performing Disney in the New Arcades of Paris, Performance Studies International, Here Be Dragons, Aberystwyth

Teaching

Undergraduate

Staging Theatre

Masters

Site-Specific Performance, London Casebook

Departmental Duties

Director of Theatre Studies

In this role, I co-ordinate postgraduate and undergraduate programmes in Theatre Studies.

For undergraduate and masters level applications, please see our web pages.  If you would like to visit the department or if you have questions about the programme, please contact theatre@surrey.ac.uk

I currently supervise doctoral research and would be interested to hear from potential applicants for PhD study at the University of Surrey.