Theatre research students

Get to know our Theatre students and gain an insight into their research.

Students are listed alphabetically under their respective degrees.

PhD in Theatre

Shekinah Jacob

Thesis title: 'The Pied Piper of Pantomime: Exploiting the Pantomime’s Inherent Framework of Aesthetic Distance and Playfulness to Engineer Change Through TYA'

Supervisors: Megan Evans & Lori Leigh

Fran Kewene

Thesis title: 'How can a kauapapa Māori theatre-based research methodology evaluate what a good life is for non-verbal autistic Māori'

Supervisors: David O'Donnell & Nicola Hyland

Sepe Mua'au

Thesis title: 'Decolonising Theatre Frameworks'

Supervisors: Nicola Hyland & David O'Donnell

Priyanka Roy

Thesis title: 'Playing Feminine Rage: Bodies, Identities and the Performative Embodiment of Emotions on Shakespeare’s Stage'

Supervisors: David O'Donnell & James Wenley