Thesis title:
Queens, Teams and the Chance to be Seen: Herstory, Feminism and Biographical Musical Theatre (2009 present)
Research Area
- Drama and Theatre Studies
- Theatre and Society
Publications
2024:
- Leah Everquill (2024) Divorced, beheaded, defied: solidarity in individual
and collective herstories in SIX the Musical (2017), Studies in Theatre and Performance, 44:1,
165-173, DOI: 10.1080/14682761.2024.2341371
Conferences
2021:
- Watershed Festival Symposium: Reimagining Music Theatre (Reimagining Representation in Music Theatre panel), Queen’s University, 27th May 2021
Submitted paper: ‘Black Lives Matter, Disney+ and the re-contextualisation of Hamilton (2015)’
- Borderlines VIII: Rejecting, Tracing, Embracing Performance Legacies (Panel 5: Dissecting and Transforming Politicised Legacies), De Montfort University, 18th June 2021
Submitted paper: ‘Hamilton (2015): Activism and Re-Envisaging Representation’
2022:
- Watershed Festival Symposium: Reimagining Music Theatre (Positionalities in Music Theatre panel), Queen's University, 27th May 2022
Submitted paper: 'Feminist camp and genre boundaries: SIX (2017) and Diana (2019)'
- Midlands4Cities Research Festival (Sex, gender & sexuality panel), 13th June 2022
Submitted paper: 'SIX (2017) and Diana (2019): ‘Herstory’ on the biographical musical theatre stage'
- Borderlines IX: Seeking Solidarity and Wonder Through Performance (Panel 2: Exploring Solidarity through Revisionist Historiography), De Montfort University, 30th June 2022
Submitted paper: ‘SIX (2017): Individual and Collective Herstories on the Musical Theatre Stage’
- Song, Stage and Screen XVI: Pluralities – Performances, Practices & Participatory Cultures (Spaces & Places panel), University of Portsmouth, 30th June 2022
Submitted paper: 'SIX (2017) and Diana (2019): Feminist empowerment on the musical theatre stage?'
Other Research Interests
During my BA and MA, I also developed research interests in topics such as narrative, memory, autobiographical performance, politics, multimedia performance, digital technologies and collaboration.
