Dr
Sarah ThomassonProfile page
Senior Lecturer
School of Arts and Media
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- Senior LecturerSchool 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)
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
- EditorContemporary Theatre Review, United Kingdom30 Apr 2021 - present
- Secretary of BoardFlipside Circus, Brisbane, Australia1 Jan 2016 - present
- Board MemberIndelability Arts, Brisbane, Australia1 Jan 2016 - present
- TreasurerAustralasian Association for Drama, Theatre, and Performance1 Jun 2018 - present
DEGREES
- PhDQueen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom
- Masters of PhilosophyUniversity of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
- BA (Hons) 1st classUniversity of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
- BAUniversity of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
- BSScUniversity of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
AVAILABILITY
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
- Collaborative projects
- Industry Projects