Dr Cousin is the author of Churchill the Playwright (Methuen, 1989), King John (Shakespeare in Performance) (Manchester University Press, 1994), and Women in Dramatic Place and Time: Contemporary Female Characters on Stage (Routledge, 1996). She has recently completed a book entitled Recording Women (for Harwood Academic Publishers) which documents the work of three women-run theatre companies: Sphinx Theatre Company, Scarlet Theatre and Foursight Theatre.

 

Additionally, she has published articles on a wide range of aspects of twentieth-century performance: Stanislavsky and Brecht; Stanislavsky and Pirandello; Shakespearean performance; a comparison of Timberlake Wertenbaker's The Break of Day and Scarlet Theatre's all-female adaptation of Chekov's Three Sisters; and interviews with practitioners: Caryl Churchill, Deborah Warner, Mike Pearson (of the Welsh-based, site-specific theatre company Brith Gof), and members of Footsbarn Travelling Theatre Company.

 

 

 

 

Saul Hewish is one of the country’s leading practitioners in the use of drama and theatre with offenders. He was a founder member, and former director, of Geese Theatre (UK) (est. 1987), a deputy director of Geese Theatre (USA), and since 1996 has worked in a freelance capacity (trading as Acting Out Company) developing drama-based responses to crime within youth offending teams, social services departments, and special educational settings across the UK. In 1999 he co-founded Rideout (Creative Arts for Rehabilitation), with Chris Johnston. Over the last 12 years this company has built a strong reputation for innovative arts-based projects within the criminal justice system. This includes theatre & digital video projects in prisons as well as production of cross artform projects than span the divide between prison and the wider public. In addition to teaching at Warwick, he has guest lectured at Central School of Speech and Drama, East 15 Acting School, and Birmingham University. He is a co-author of Challenging Experience: An Experiential Approach to the Treatment of Serious Offenders and was a recipient of a 2005 Butler Trust Certificate Award, a national award which recognises exceptional work by staff in HM Prison Service.

 

 

 

 

Wallace has spent over twenty years working in the professional theatre as a Production Manager, Lighting Designer and Administrator. He is also the author of a number of plays. In 2004 he received his MA from De Montfort University with a dissertation that examined the career and practice of Robert Wilson through the theoretical lens of Jean-Francois Lyotard’s thinking on the modern and the postmodern. Wallace’s doctoral thesis, which examined the changing nature of the relationship between performance and working-class Ulster Loyalism between 1997 and 2007, was awarded in 2008. Throughout his Ph.D. studies and beyond, Wallace taught on a range of undergraduate modules at Warwick. He spent the 2009-10 academic year at Nottingham University teaching on both undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.

 

Wallace’s primary research are in Irish Theatre and the performance of masculinities.

 

 

 

 

Richard completed his Masters degree in theatre and directing at Royal Holloway, University of London in 2001. He is also a qualified voice teacher having completed his teacher training at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 1995. During the past sixteen years, Richard has worked as a freelance university lecturer and director throughout the UK including at many of London ’s drama schools and performing arts institutions, specialising in teaching improvisation, as well as acting and voice.

 

He is also an accomplished performer, having worked professionally in theatre (including variety) and television as an actor for many years before commencing his academic career. His interest in the theatre continues to inform his current doctoral pursuit, researching improvisation from its professional practice to its use as a creative and functioning tool.