UK-Based Network Members

Helen Gilbert, Royal Holloway, University of London (Convenor)
Performance and Asylum: Transnational Comparisons

Emma Cox, Royal Holloway, University of London (Convenor)
Representations of Refugees in performance, activism and writing

Christine Bacon, Actors for Human Rights, Ice and Fire Theatre
Verbatim Performances about Asylum Seekers and Refugees

Stella Barnes, Oval House Theatre
Asylum Art and Ethics

Ananda Breed, University of East London
Refugees, Applied theatre and reconciliation in Rwanda, Congo and Burundi

Rea Dennis, University of Glamorgan, Wales
Playback Theatre with Refugees

Anna Gillespie, Red Room Theatre Company
Immigration in Europe

Milija Gluhovic, Warwick University
Cosmpolitanism, Theatre and Performance in the ‘New Europe’

Susan Haedicke, Warwick University
European Street Performance

Charlotte Hennessey, University of Manchester
Theatre and Peace-Building in Sri Lanka

Alison Jeffers, University of Manchester
Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Britain

Silvija Jestrovic, Warwick University
Exilic Theatre and Performance

Erene Kaptani, University of East London
Playback and Forum Theatre

Jenny Lee, Attic Theatre Company
Theatre Practice with Refugee Youth

Sara Masters, Ice and Fire Theatre Company
Performance and Human Rights

Tina Muir, Theatre and Youth worker
Applied Theatre for Refugee Youth

Misha Myers, Dartington College of the Arts
Performance and Place-making

Helen Nicholson, Royal Holloway, University of London
Applied Theatre, Citizenship

Sophie Nield, Royal Holloway, University of London
Border Politics, Space and Citizenship

Maggie O’Neill, Staffordshire University
Participatory Action Research

Janelle Reinelt, Warwick University
International Theatre and Performance

Farngis Shahrokhi, Oval House Theatre
Asylum Art and Ethics

Ioana Szeman, Central School of Speech and Drama, London
Roma Communities in Europe

James Thomson, University of Manchester
Performance and Affect in Contexts of War and Crisis

Natalie Waldbaum, Warwick University
Ethics of Representation

Theodore Way, University of Southampton
Asylum Policy, Torture and Trauma

Australia-Based Network Members

Tom Burvill, Macquarie University, Sydney/Sidetrack Theatre
Ethics, Levinas, Performance

Paul Dwyer, University of Sydney / version 1.0 ensemble
Community Performance and Reconciliation

Rand Hazou, La Trobe University, Melbourne
Political and Community Theatre about Asylum in Australia

Mary Ann Hunter, Independent Theatre Practitioner
Peace Building and Performance

Jacqueline Lo, Australian National University, Canberra
Diaspora and Performance

Gay McAuley, University of Sydney
Detention, Space and Memory

Suvendrini Perera, Curtin University of Technology, Perth
Migration, Diaspora, Border Politics

Devorah Wainer, University of Technology, Sydney
Social Ethics, Levinas

Caroline Wake, University of New South Wales
Testimony and Witnessing in Performance Contexts

David Williams, version 1.0 ensemble, Sydney
Verbatim Performance and Politics

Other Network Members

Fadima Alim, Jumblies Theatre, Toronto
Somali Refugee Communities

Alan Filewod, University of Guelph, Canada
Documentary Performance

Emine Fisek, University of California, Berkeley
Theories of Ritual and Body Practice

Simon Hagemann, Sorbonne University, Paris
Post-dramatic Theatre and Politics

Sissy Helff, Goethe-Universitaet, Frankfurt
Refugee Aesthetics in Literature

Ruth Howard, Jumblies Theatre, Toronto
Community Theatre Practice

Sonja Kuftinec, University of Minnesota
Community Arts, Space and Place

Riti Herman Mostert, Wageningen University, Netherlands
Applied Theatre and Action Research

Prem Kumar Rajaram, Central European University, Budapest
Sociology of Asylum and Citizenship

Julie Salverson, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario
Theatre Practice, Witnessing, Ethics