Roehampton University
Open Spaces. Open Minds.
School of Arts
Dr Sarah Gorman
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Job Title: Principal Lecturer Qualifications: PhD Telephone: +44 (0)20 8392 3776 Email Address: S.Gorman@roehampton.ac.uk |
Sarah Gorman
(BA, University of Kent at Canterbury, MA, Lancaster University, PhD, Lancaster University) - Senior Lecturer.
Her teaching and research explore contemporary European and North American experimental theatre, performance, live art, cultural politics, new media in performance and new British playwrights. She is currently working on a monograph for Routledge entitled The Theatre of Richard Maxwell and the New York City Players.
Teaching
Sarah teaches both workshop and seminar based modules at Roehampton, developing modules such as Independent Production Project, New Media in Performance, Feminisms & Performance and Advanced Theatre Practice for the BA Programme.
Recent and forthcoming publications
2009 will see the publication of "The End of Reality: Exploring Acting with New York City Players" in 'Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes' (published by Manchester University Press and edited by Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender).
Sarah's paper at PSI#15 (June 2009): "I got balls see? An Exploration of Working Class Masculinity in the work of the New York City Players" has been taken from her forthcoming monograph.
Sarah's article on Janet Cardiff's Missing Voice (Case Study B)"Wandering and Wondering: Following Janet Cardiff's Missing Voice") is being reprinted in Performance and the Contemporary City, a portfolio of documents edited by Nicholas Whybrow, to be published by Palgrave, 2009.
In 2008 Sarah also published "Theatre for a Media Saturated Age" in Blackwell's Companion to 20th Century British and Irish Drama (edited by Nadine Holdsworth and Mary Luckhurst).
Some areas of research supervision
Contemporary British, European and North American theatre, Site Specific Performance and Live Art, Gender & Queer politics, postmodern cultural theory, Feminist Archives & Histories, Performative Writing, Contemporary theatre making, poststructuralist poetics and performance, new media and performance, Forced Entertainment, Richard Maxwell and the New York City Players, Bobby Baker, Janet Cardiff, Uninvited Guests, Dood Paard, Third Angel, Stan's Cafe, Reckless Sleepers, Gob Squad, Lone Twin.
Publications
(2009) , Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes.
(2007) "Theatre for a Media-Saturated Age", A Concise Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Drama, 263-282.
Michele Barrett (2007) Dear Bobby (on Spitting Mad), Bobby Baker: Redeeming Features of Daily Life.
(2007) Refusing Shorthand: Richard Maxwell, Contemporary Theatre Review, 17 (2), 235-241.
(2006) "Foreign Bodies: Performing Physical and Psychological Harm at the Mladi Levi Festival August 2003", Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion, 117-140.
(2005) "Chronicles of the Indeterminate: Ordering Chaos in the Retrospectives of Forced Entertainment", Performance Research, 10:1, 82-94.
(2005) "New Theatre Making: Richard Maxwell", Contemporary Theatre Review, 15:2, 284-288.
(2003) "Wandering and Wondering: Following Janet Cardiff’s Missing Voice", Performance Research, 8:1, 83-93.
(2002) "The Mythology of Sarah Kane: How to avoid reading 4.48 Psychosis as a Suicide Note", Anglo Files: Journal of English Teaching (The Danish Association of Teachers of English), December, 35-42.
(2000) "Archive Fever and the challenge to Finitude in Rose English's Tantamount Esperance and Insomniac Productions' Clair de Luz", Performance Research, 5:2.
Membership of professional bodies
Performance Studies International;
Qualification Details
1988-1991 - University of Kent at Canterbury -
Degree BA (Hons) English and Drama Combined
1992-1993 - Lancaster University - M.A .in Contemporary Theatre Practice
September 2002 - Lancaster University - PhD
"Millennial Anxiety and the Drive to Narrative Closure in Experimental British Theatre"
Research Expertise
Contemporary British and North American Experimental Theatres; Feminist theory & performance; Performance Art, Live Art, Site-Specific performance, Cultural theory & Identity politics, New Media in Performance; Performative Writing.
Teaching Expertise
Sarah currently contributes to a range of modules on the BA programme in the Drama Theatre & Performance Studies subject area. She has delivered a range of modules since arriving at Roehampton in 2001:
Performance Project; Thinking Through Theatre; Advanced Theatre Practice; Studio Theatre Production; Analysing Performance; London's Arts; Approaches to Drama & Theatre; New Media & Performance; Performance, Cultural Politics and Ethics; Independent Production Project; Applied Theatre Practice.
As programme convener (2003-2006)she also co-ordinated a number of initiatives to improve the student experience & the delivery of the BA Programme, including: holding focus groups on the organisation of module choice & organising a bespoke RED Centre staff development session on Personal Development Profiles.
Examining Experience
Sarah has examined the PhDs of Rachel Lehrman (Communicative Dynamics of Artistic Collaboration) and Rachel Zerihan (Catharsis in Works of Contemporary Female Performance), Roehampton Candidates, Autumn 2008.
She is currently external examiner at Kingston University & Queen Mary University of London
Consultancy Expertise
Quality and Standards procedures for BA and MA programmes; Drama subject benchmarking; HEFCE Code of Practice; Foundation Degrees in Drama;
Consultancies Undertaken
> Assessor for AHRC, >Advisor for Arts Council of England, reviewing pieces for Combined Arts & Live Arts Departments (2001 - 2009)
>External Examiner to University of Glamorgan’s Drama Theatre & Media BA Programme, September 2004 - 2008
>External Examiner for MA in Contemporary Performance Making at Brunel University, London, 2004 - 2008.
>Board Member for Lightwork.Image.Performance
>Member of validation panel for Anglia Ruskin University, , BA Performing Arts & Drama pathways 2005-6.