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Dr

Sarah Thomasson

Senior Lecturer

School of Arts and Media

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  • Senior Lecturer
    School of Arts and Media
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  • FT77 301, 77 Fairlie Terrace, Wellington, 6012, New Zealand

BIO

Sarah Thomasson is Lecturer in Theatre at Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington in Aotearoa New Zealand. She writes on contemporary theatre and performance practices with a focus on festival studies, digital humanities, and feminist performance. Her monograph, 'The Festival Cities of Edinburgh and Adelaide', is forthcoming from Palgrave Macmillan. She is the co-Primary Investigator of the Theatre Aotearoa live performing arts database project.

Select Production Experience:
Company Production Manager, Look Mum…No Hands!!! (indelabilityarts, Adelaide Fringe, February-March 2018)

Company Production Manager, Love Me; (indelabilityarts, creative development showing, SunPAC, October 2017)

Production Stage Manager, Purely Academic by David Abramson (Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre as part of eResearch conference, October 2017)

Company Production Manager, Love Me; (indelabilityarts, creative development showing, RPAC, July 2017)

Company Production Manager, Look Mum…No Hands!!! (indelabilityarts, arTour Showcase, RPAC, March 2017)

Assistant Director, Bumpy Angels by Sue Rider, directed by Catarina Hebbard(The Arts Centre Gold Coast, April 2017)

Production Manager, Look Mum…No Hands!!! (indelabilityarts, The Arts Council Gold Coast, February 2017)

Director, Staged Reading of Purely Academic by David Abramson, performed in the Geoffrey Rush Drama Studio as part of a conference organised by the School of Civil Engineering (November 2016)

Production Manager, Look Mum…No Hands!!! (indelabilityarts, RPAC and Brisbane Powerhouse, 2016)

NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Editor
    Contemporary Theatre Review, United Kingdom30 Apr 2021 - present
  • Secretary of Board
    Flipside Circus, Brisbane, Australia1 Jan 2016 - present
  • Board Member
    Indelability Arts, Brisbane, Australia1 Jan 2016 - present
  • Treasurer
    Australasian Association for Drama, Theatre, and Performance1 Jun 2018 - present

DEGREES

  • PhD
    Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom
  • Masters of Philosophy
    University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
  • BA (Hons) 1st class
    University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
  • BA
    University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
  • BSSc
    University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

AVAILABILITY

  • Masters Research or PhD student supervision
  • Collaborative projects
  • Industry Projects

FIELDS OF RESEARCH