Andreas Bürgisser holds a Master of Arts in Theatre with a Specialization in Leading Artist from the Zurich University of the Arts. He is research assistant at the Zurich University of the Arts, freelance theatre pedagogue and director.
Email: andreas.buergisser@zhdk.ch
Simona Floare Bora teaches Italian at the University of Essex (UK) where she has previously lectured on TEFL and EAP courses at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. She also teaches General English and ESP in various high schools in Bozen (Italy). Her research interests include Drama and Literature in L2 Teaching and Learning, Second Language Acquisition, CALL, Materials Development in Language Teaching and EAP/ESP.
Email: sbora@essex.ac.uk
Meretta Elliott is the Head of the Department of Arts and Humanities, Brunel University London. She trained as an actor and then worked as director before becoming a full time academic. Her particular interest is social cohesion, equality and the power of drama-based practice across subject areas. Meretta teaches Applied Drama and Theatre practice to undergraduates. She is also a trained mediator and conflict coach.
Email: Meretta.Elliott@brunel.ac.uk
Mike Fleming is emeritus professor of education at the School of Education, Durham University. He has a background in teaching Drama and English. and wide experience in teacher training and research. He has written a number of books and academic papers on drama and arts education, and has published on the relationship between drama and intercultural education. He has worked on the Languages in Education Project at the Council of Europe and authored a number of papers and booklets. His book on aesthetics, theory and pedagogy published by Routledge is entitled Arts in Education.
Email: m.p.fleming@durham.ac.uk
Katja Frimberger is an independent scholar and community arts practitioner based in bonnie Scotland, curious about the value discourse that underpins performative teaching, learning and research approaches. Her most recent community art projects (with filmmaker Simon Bishopp) include Scotland, Our New Home: a participatory filmmaking project with refugee young people; and UAnimate: a digital animation project for children with complex needs. Katja previously worked as lecturer in Theatre at Brunel University London and was Research Associate at the University of Glasgow, exploring the role of arts-based pedagogies in intercultural/multilingual education and research.
Email: katjafrimberger@gmail.com
Ulrike Hatzer, director, conceptionist and lecturer, was trained at Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich and at Trinity College Dublin. She directs and develops plays for diverse audiences in several German theatres and invents participatory formats with and for particular cities/regions. She developed and implemented the programme "Expert Theatre" for students of directing at University Mozarteum Salzburg and has been a member of juries for various festivals, as well as curator and organiser of cultural events. Since 2017 she has been Professor at the Thomas Bernhard Institute and conductor of the master course "Applied Theatre – artistic practice and society" at University Mozarteum Salzburg.
Email: Ulrike.HATZER@moz.ac.at
Ulrike Hentschel studierte Erziehungswissenschaft, Sozialwissenschaften und Theaterpädagogik in Bochum und Berlin. Sie promovierte an der Universität der Künste Berlin zum Thema „Theaterspielen als Ästhetische Bildung“. Seit 2001 ist sie Professorin für Theaterpädagogik an der Universität der Künste Berlin. Ihre Forschungs- und Arbeitsschwerpunkte sind: Ästhetische Bildung, zeitgenössisches Theater und Theaterpädagogik, Theater und Schule, Geschichte der Theaterpädagogik. Ulrike Hentschel ist Mitherausgeberin der „Zeitschrift für Theaterpädagogik. Korrespondenzen“.
Email: uhen@udk-berlin.de
Dagmar Höfferer-Brunthaler teaches German Language and Literature at a Secondary School in Vienna. Since 1989 she has been working in the field of German as a Second Language. In 2014 she graduated as an academic drama/theatre teacher and obtained as Master of Arts in 2016. She is currently working for NCoC (= National Center of Competence for Cultural Education) located at the University College of Teacher Education Lower Austria. She is part of the core team of Netzwerk Theater in der Schule (Network Theatre in Schools; formerly BAG-TiS) and Chair of IDEA AUSTRIA (International Drama / Theatre and Education Association).
Email: dagmar.hoefferer@ph-noe.ac.at
Ole Hruschka is Head of the Study Programme 'Theatre in Education' at Leibniz Universität Hannover.
Email: ole.hruschka@germanistik.uni-hannover.de
After obtaining her university diploma in acting at the University for Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, Julia Koehler was trained in theatre pedagogy with the diploma in Jeux Dramatiques and received her master´s degree in Educational Sciences at the University of Vienna. Her research focuses on theatre pedagogy and cultural education, and her doctoral thesis is entitled “Theatrical ways in teacher education”. Currently, she is senior lecturer at the Centre of Teacher Education, University of Vienna, and Co-Chair of the Austrian Drama Education Teacher Network, cooperating with IDEA (International Drama in Education Association).
Email: julia.koehler@univie.ac.at
Stephen A. Leigh is a PhD Candidate at the University of Toronto's Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE). He is currently collecting and analysing data for his PhD dissertation study Examining Lyric Diction Instructor Pedagogical Content Knowledge – A search for instructor qualifications. He is also the Lyric diction coach for the Canadian Opera Company's young artists programme, the Ensemble Studio. His research interests include: Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Pronunciation pedagogy, Articulatory Setting Theory, Cross linguistic interference, Corrective phonetics for opera singers, and Italian, German, French, and English opera lyric diction.
Email: polyglot@bell.net
Wendy K. Mages, an Associate Professor at Mercy College, earned a master’s and doctorate in Human Development and Psychology from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a master’s in Theatre from Northwestern University. Her research investigating the effect of educational strategies and contexts on language, cognitive, and social development has been published in journals such as Review of Educational Research, Early Childhood Research Quarterly, Research in Drama Education, Youth Theatre Journal, and the International Journal of Education and the Arts, as well as in the Routledge International Handbook of Early Literacy Education.
Email: wmages@mercy.edu
Annie Ó Breacháin lectures in Drama Education in the School of Arts Education and Movement at the Institute of Education, Dublin City University. Annie is chairperson of the Association for Drama in Education in Ireland. Her research interests include drama, relational pedagogy, embodiment, the child-teacher relationship and the links between the art and practice of teaching and storytelling. She is interested in phenomenological inquiry, research with children and generating and analysing visual and embodied research data.
Email: annie.obreachain@dcu.ie
Róisín O’Gorman is a theatre artist and lecturer in the Department of Theatre at University College Cork, Ireland. She studied theatre in the USA and returned to Ireland in 2007. From her background in theatre historiography, dramatic literature, theory, feminism and visual culture, Róisín’s current research lives between embodied practices and theoretical understandings of performance.
Email: r.ogorman@ucc.ie URL: http://research.ucc.ie/profiles/A027/rogorman
Carmel O’Sullivan is the Director of the Arts Education Research Group (AERG) and former Head of the School of Education, Trinity College Dublin. Her research interests include Drama and Theatre in Education, drama with children and young people with an autism spectrum disorder, the work of theatre practitioner Augusto Boal, and teaching and learning in higher education.
Email: Carmel.OSullivan@tcd.ie
Erika Piazzoli is a university lecturer in Arts Education at Trinity College Dublin, where she acts as International Coordinator for the School of Education. She teaches Language Education and Drama in Education on the Master in Education programme, and Arts and Drama in Education on the Professional Master in Education programme. Her research interests include performative language pedagogy; embodiment; process drama; second language teacher education; arts and aesthetic education.
Email: Erika.Piazzoli@tcd.ie
Since 2015 Georges Pfruender has been Head of the Chair for Theatre Pedagogy and Art Mediation at the Institute for Continuing Education and Advice at the University of Education Northwestern Switzerland.
Email: georges.pfruender@fhnw.ch
Virginie Privas-Bréauté has a PhD in Northern Irish contemporary drama, published in 2018, Immersion dans le conflit nord-irlandais. Le théâtre didactique de Stewart Parker (1941-1988) et Anne Devlin (1951-). She is a lecturer in English learning/teaching at the University of Lorraine. Her research focuses on language learning/teaching through drama, and video games – including synthetic worlds – which require the creation of avatars. She relies on embodied cognition and the enaction paradigm to examine the cognitive development of language learners. Her publications include “Creating an avatar to become the ‘spect-actor’ of one’s learning of ESP”, The Eurocall Review, 2016.
Email: virginie.privas-breaute@univ-lorraine.fr
Sieglinde Roth studied in Graz (Austria) and graduated 1995. Her postgraduate studies were at the UdK Berlin (University of the Arts). She works as a theatre pedagogue at Deutsches Theater Berlin and Landestheater Linz. From 2002 to 2004 she was – as a University Teacher – a member of the TWISFER team („Theatre Work in Social Fields“) at the University of Graz, together with the UdK and University of Applied Sciences Ottersberg (Germany). Now she works as Senior Artist (Post-Doc) for Arts Education ("Kunstvermittlung") at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz.
Email: sieglinde.roth@kug.ac.at
Friedhelm Roth-Lange holds a Master in Education (Subjects: German, Spanish, Educational Sciences) and a diploma as “Theaterpädagoge (BuT)®”. He teaches and researches in the areas of Drama in Education, Transcultural Theatre, Performative Theatre, Disability Studies, Art Education. He lectures at the Institute for Applied Theatre (IfanT) in Vienna, is a Board member of the German Federation of Theatre Pedagogy (BuT) and co-editor of the Zeitschrift für Theaterpädagogik. Korrespondenzen (Journal for Theatre Pedagogy. Correspondences).
Email: rothlange@aol.com
Mira Sack is Head of the Bachelor and Master programme in Theatre Pedagogy at the Zurich University of the Arts and holder of the professorship there.
Email: mira.sack@zhdk.ch
Garret Scally is a theatre practitioner-researcher who uses theatre in educational settings for additional language development and social purposes. Garret investigated the use of group devised theatre for additional language development on the Professional Doctorate in Applied Theatre programme at the University of Manchester and was awarded a PhD based on this work.
Email: garretscally@gmail.com
Manfred Schewe is Professor Emeritus at University College Cork (UCC) and has always been interested in the building of bridges between different disciplines. At UCC he served as Head of a Language Department (German) and also as Head of Theatre. His teaching and interdisciplinary research activities focus on Applied Drama and Theatre, especially on performative approaches to Language, Literature and Culture, and are closely linked to UCC’s SCENARIO PROJECT, consisting of a peer-reviewed journal, book series and a forum for conferences and symposia. Further details at: http://research.ucc.ie/profiles/A016/mschewe.
Email: m.schewe@ucc.ie
Adrien Segal is an artist based in Oakland, California. Her work has been exhibited internationally in galleries and museums and is published in several books and academic journals. She has been an Artist in Residence at the Bunnell Street Art Center in Alaska, Oregon College of Arts and Crafts, the Pier 9 Workshop, The Center for Art in Wood, Bullseye Glass, Facebook Headquarters, and Benchspace in Cork City, Ireland. Adrien received a BFA in Furniture Design from California College of the Arts in San Francisco. In addition to teaching, she pursues her creative practice out of her studio on the former Naval Base in Alameda, CA.
Email: adriensegal@gmail.com
Florian Vaßen studied German, French, philosophy and history at the universities of Frankfurt, Aix-en-Provence and Marburg, where he was awarded a DPhil in 1970. He was assistant lecturer at the University of Gießen. In 1982, he took up his current position as Professor for German Literature at the University of Hanover where he is director of the Arbeitsstelle Theater/Theaterpädagogik (Centre of Theatre/Theatre Pedagogy) and co-editor of Zeitschrift für Theaterpädagogik. Korrespondenzen (Journal for Theatre Pedagogy. Correspondences). His research interests include drama and theatre, theory and practice of theatre pedagogy, literature of the Vormärz, Bertolt Brecht, and Heiner Müller.
Email: florian.vassen@germanistik.uni-hannover.de
Catalina Villanueva recently completed her doctoral studies at Trinity College Dublin, under the supervision of Dr Carmel O’Sullivan. Her research interests are Drama in Education and Critical Pedagogy in the Chilean context and abroad.
Email: villanum@tcd.ie
Silja Weber is a Lecturer in German at Columbia University. She completed her PhD at Indiana University in 2018 with a dissertation integrating applied linguistics, language pedagogy, and performance theory titled "The role of performance for student agency: A discourse perspective on whole-group interaction in intermediate German classes." She researches classroom interaction, in particular the sequencing and scaffolding of play and performance, language work, and reflective phases. She is also working on inclusive teaching, in particular on more inclusive materials and pedagogical strategies, as well as a more differentiated and critical understanding of participation in collegiate language teaching and learning.
Email: svw2108@columbia.edu
Andreas Wirag studied English and Spanish (secondary-school teaching degree) at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg i. Brsg. He took part in study exchanges to Spain (Universidad de Granada) and England (Anglia Ruskin University). He completed his teacher education in Baden-Baden and worked as a teacher at grammar school and vocational school. He was a research assistant at the English Department of the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg i. Brsg. and the Graduate School “Teaching and Learning Processes” (UpGrade) at the Universität Koblenz-Landau. At present he is research assistant for the project (third-party-funds) “Bühne frei: Schulische Bildungsangebote im Bereich Darstellendes Spiel und ihre Wirkung auf die Persönlichkeitsentwicklung.“
Email: andreas.wirag@uni-goettingen.de
Fionn Woodhouse is a lecturer, director and facilitator of drama/theatre with a focus on youth participation and learning through practice. He currently facilitates a range of modules in the Department of Theatre, University College Cork including Applied Drama & Theatre, Theatre Production, Internship, etc. Research interests include Performative Arts Pedagogy, participation in (and impact of) Performative Arts, facilitator/teacher training in a schools/curriculum context and impact of performative training in learning spaces. Fionn is a serving board member of Youth Theatre Ireland and an active Youth Theatre facilitator, founding UCC Youth Theatre in 2017.
Email: f.woodhouse@ucc.ie
Michael Wrentschur is a nationally and internationally renowned expert of Forum Theatre, Legislative Theatre and Theatre Work in Social Fields. For more than 20 years he has been working with participatory theatre and drama-based research methodologies on projects related to social justice, equal opportunities, diversity, social and political participation). He works as associate professor in the Department for Educational Sciences at the University of Graz. Since 1999, Michael Wrentschur has been the artistic and managing director of InterACT (www.interact-online.org).