Research

My research focuses on the relationship between policy and artistic practice, with a focus on how cultural and industrial policy intersect and organise labour within the subsidised arts. My doctoral research, ‘The Subsidy Question: Community Theatre and the Integral State’, traces the historical evolution of Australian federal arts subsidy and brings this history into alignment with the broader economic and industrial changes experienced throughout the country over the past five decades. I was recently awarded a 2024 Paulette Isabel Jones Career Award from the University of Sydney Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Researcher Training) based upon the significance of the research project and related publications.

Teaching

Since 2020, I have worked as a sessional tutor in Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Sydney, where I have taught undergraduate courses on avant-garde performance history, transgressive and political performance, directing, practice-based research, and performance analysis. Since 2023 I have taught, lectured, and mentored undergraduate and postgraduate students at Australia’s prestigious training conservatoire, the National Institute of Dramatic Arts (NIDA), on my research area, as well as critical theory for performance-making, practice-based research, climate dramaturgy, First Nations contemporary performance practice and methodologies, and artificial intelligence.

Professional background

From 2017 to 2019, I was part of the global Training & Development team at Servcorp, an Australian multinational workspace provider. My role involved designing training courses, collateral, webinars, assets, and e-modules for team members across 150+ locations in over 20 countries and in more than 10 languages. My responsibilities included the training and assessment of team members, the development of training methodologies, and the global coordination of other trainers. In 2019, I led a comprehensive revamp of Servcorp's client onboarding process. This included creating over 200 collateral assets that were customised for the diverse cultures, languages, and compliance laws of over 25 countries; rolling out a new client onboarding procedure; developing a team training program; and writing, producing, and starring in client onboarding videos in seven languages. Additionally, I designed and wrote the copy for the Kickstart your Business onboarding brochure, which was distributed to more than 60,000 clients globally.

Education

I hold a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Theatre and Performance Studies and Cultural Studies from the University of Sydney. In 2017, I graduated with First Class Honours and the University Medal for my Honours thesis, ‘Transgressing the Truth: Performative ambiguity in autobiographical performance’, and a casebook based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in the rehearsals for Belvoir’s 2017 production of Hir, ‘“We’re the show that people can’t pronounce”: Belvoir St Theatre’s Hir and the field of Australian theatre’. In addition to the University Medal I was awarded an Academic Merit Prize for outstanding academic performance throughout my undergraduate degree.