Subject Leader 

Cathy Leeney, MA, PhD, Diploma in Directing, British Theatre Association, London, Dipl LIS

Research and teaching interests include twentieth-century and contemporary Irish theatre and performance, gender identity in performance, Irish women playwrights (Augusta Gregory, Teresa Deevy, Marina Carr), feminist theory, women playwrights writing in English, and twentieth century and contemporary directing practice.

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Tel +353 1 716 8967 Email catherine.leeney@ucd.ie

Lecturer 

David Barnett, MA, DPhil (Oxon.)

Main teaching and research interests: German Drama, Brecht, Heiner Müller, Fassbinder, Postdramatic Theatre, Postmodernism and Politics in the Theatre, Theatricality, Metadrama and Metatheatre, Holocaust Drama, Avant-Garde Theatre Forms.

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Tel +353 1 716 8936 Email david.barnett@ucd.ie

Choreographer in Residence:

Finola Cronin, MA.

Teaching & Research interests: The practice and process of choreography in dance and drama, Irish-based Theatre Dance, Modern and Postmodern Choreographers, German Tanztheater, Pina Bausch.

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Tel +353 1 716 8964 Email finola.cronin@ucd.ie

 

Teaching Fellow  

Enrica Cerquoni, MA

Main Teaching and Research Interests: the theory and practice of space in drama and performance and their applications as academic subjects, the connections between space and the politics of gender and identity in drama and performance, twentieth-century and contemporary Irish theatre, women playwrights, aesthetics of the visual in modern and contemporary theatre, research methodologies in drama and performance studies.  

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Tel +353 1716 8051  Email  maria.cerquoni@ucd.ie

 

Secretary:

Hilary Gow (mornings only).

General Enquiries Tel +353 1 716 8049 Email drama.studies@ucd.ie

Honorary Senior Fellow:

Professor Marianne McDonald (University of California at San Diego), PhD, MRIA.

Directors of Workshops / Course Convenors:

Jason Byrne, Loose Canon Theatre Company.
Mary Elizabeth Burke-Kennedy, freelance director Liam Halligan, Artistic Director, Storytellers Theatre Company.
Helen Meaney, MA (Practical Theatre Criticism). .
Michael Murphy, freelance director
Sarah Jane Scaife, freelance director
 
Convenors of special courses in recent years have included:

Michael Wilcock, PhD (Shakespeare from Stage to Screen)
Dermot Rattigan, PhD (Radio Drama)
Colm O’Briain, BA (Theatre, Society and Cultural Policy)
Carmen Szabo, PhD (Theoretical Frameworks)
Mary Howard, MA (Educational Drama).

Academic Board of Studies:

Anne Fogarty, MA, PhD
Professor Mary Daly, Dean
Professor John Barnes, MA (Oxon)
Professor Don Cruickshank, MA (Aberdeen) PhD (Cantab)
Professor Declan Kiberd, MA, DPhil (Oxon)
Cathy Leeney, MA, PhD
Joseph Long, MA, Docteur de l’Université de Strasbourg
Frank McGuinness, MPhil, DLitt (Uni of Ulster)
Anthony Roche, BA (Dub), MA (Calif), PhD (Calif).
David Barnett, MA, DPhil (Oxon.)
Finola Cronin, MA

Theatre Company in Association 2005-6

Storytellers Theatre Company