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Higher Education Advisory Board

Our Higher Education Advisory Board is a hand-picked group of trusted advisors: a collection of renowned scholars, educators and practitioners, with whom the team at Digital Theatre+ have had long and fruitful collaborative relationships. 

This steering group helps out with and advises on content creation and acquisition; site development; partnerships and projects, ethics and aesthetics.

Sandra Adell
Paul Allain
Stacie Lee Bennett

Sandra Adell

Literature Professor, Department of Afro-American Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Paul Allain

Professor of Theatre and Performance, University of Kent

Stacie Lee Bennett-Worth

Artist-Researcher and PhD scholarship candidate at De Montfort University in the Institute of Creative Technologies

Rhonda Blair
Sharon Marie Carnicke
David Chambers

Rhonda Blair

Director, actor and Professor Emerita at Southern Methodist University. Author of 'Theatre, Performance and Cognition: Languages, Bodies and Ecologies'

Sharon Marie Carnicke

Professor of Theatre and Russian, University of Southern California; founder of the Stanislavsky Institute for the 21st Century

David Chambers

Director, writer and producer. Professor, Yale University
Associate, Harvard University

Michael Chemers
Maria M Delgado
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Michael Chemers

Professor and Chair of the Department of Performance, Play & Design at the University of California Santa Cruz. He was also the Founding Director of the Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dramaturgy program at Carnegie Mellon University

Maria M. Delgado

Professor and Vice Principal (Research and Knowledge Exchange) at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, has published extensively on modern Spanish-language theatre and film and European theatre.

Mark Evans

Professor of Theatre Training at Coventry University. He has published widely on actor training, physical theatre and contemporary performance.

Anna Furse
Maggie B. Gale
Richard Gough

Anna Furse

Professor Emeritus, Goldsmiths, University of London where she was Director of MA in Performance Making till 2022. Artistic Director, Athletes of the Heart

Professor Maggie B. Gale

Chair in Drama and Vice Dean for Research, Humanities, University of Manchester

Richard Gough

Artistic Director, academic and Professor of Music & Performance at the University of South Wales

Mike Vanden Heuvel
Dr. Nike Imoru
Ezra LeBank

Michael Vanden Heuvel

Professor of Interdisciplinary Theatre Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Nike Imoru, PhD.

Former professor of theatre in the UK and US. Film and TV casting director and producer, actress and owner of acting studio, The Actor’s Way

Ezra LeBank

Head of Movement and Associate Professor of Theatre Arts at California State University

Lisa Peck
Kathy Perkins
Duška Radosavljević

Lisa Peck

Teaching Fellow in Theatre Practice at the University of Sussex; Associate Tutor at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama

 

Kathy A. Perkins 

Lighting designer, writer and Professor Emerita at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Duška Radosavljević

Writer, dramaturg and academic; Professorial Research Fellow at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama

Magda Romanska
Carol Chillington Rutter

Magda Romanska

Associate Professor of Theatre and Dramaturgy at Emerson College, Boston; Research Associate at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University; Executive Director and Editor-in-Chief of The Theatre Times

Carol Chillington Rutter

Professor of Shakespeare and Performance Studies at the University of Warwick

 

Sarah Whatley
Isaiah Matthew Wooden

Sarah Whatley

Professor of Dance and Director of the Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE) at Coventry University

 

Isaiah Matthew Wooden

Director-dramaturg, critic, and assistant professor of theater at Swarthmore College

Karen

Karen Hall

Lecturer in Drama Education, University of Sussex 
 

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