MA Screen Acting and Performance

Dr Bryan Brown

Senior Lecturer

I am a specialist in performer training and collaboration with a primary focus on laboratory studies. I did my undergraduate degree at the New School for Social Research where I was taught by a heady and healthy mix of former Yale MFA graduates and existing faculty from NYU's Experimental Theatre Wing. Accepted into the presitgious MFA Dramaturgy program of Columbia Univeristy, I decided instead to cut my teeth in the experimental theatre world and the independent film of New York City. Working in every area from production assistant to dramaturg to actor to producer, I relished in the joy of ensemble-based film and theatre-making. While in NYC, I trained extensively with Stephen Wangh, Raina von Waldenburg and others in an American approach to the Polish Laboratory Theatre's psychophysical training which incorporated somatic and Overlie-based Viewpoints work. I then continued my training at RADA and in Poland with post-Grotowski practitioners from Singapore, Slovakia, Ukraine, Russia, and Poland.

Dr Konstantinos Thomaidis

Associate Professor in Voice, Theatre & Performance

Konstantinos performs internationally. Credits include: Hamlet in Ophelia, Interrupted (The Grotowski Institute, Poland / UK tour), Raskolnikov in What Happened to the Tyrant? (Camden People’s Theatre, UK), Perlimplin in Lorca’s Don Perlimplin and Belisa (Ora Theatre, Greece), Chi Chi Bunichi (National Theatre of Iasi, Romania, UK and Poland tour). Directing credits include: Semele by Handel (London and Berlin), A Voice Has. A Voices Does. A Voice Is. and Portable Soundscapes (New Theatre Royal, Portsmouth). Recently, he was Voice Consultant to Sophocles’ Trackers (Epidaurus) and Music Director for David Greig’s The Events (National Opera of Greece).

He has taught actor training, movement and voice at the Estonian Academy of Theatre and Music, the GEOKS Center in Bali, the Norwegian Theatre Academy and the Drama School of the National Theatre of Greece. He co-edits the Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies and Routledge Voice Studies.

Professor Heike Roms

Professor in Theatre and Performance

I joined the University of Exeter in 2017 after twelve years at Aberystwyth University, where I was a core member of the team that made Aberystwyth an internationally renowned centre for Performance Studies.

I have published widely on contemporary performance practice, the history of performance art in a British context, performance historiography and archiving, performance and landscape, and performance as a mode of knowledge formation and dissemination.

Professor Stephen Hodge

Professor in Live Art + Spatial Practices

I am Professor in Live Art + Spatial Practices and a member of the Centre for Contemporary Performance Practices. My Practice Research interrogates space and event across real, digital and imagined environments. I was Head of Drama (2012-2018) and the University's Academic Director of Arts and Culture (2016-2021), responsible for co-authoring and delivering the institution's Arts and Culture Strategy. I have designed and convened a number of BA modules in contemporary performance, and currently contribute to the MA Creativity: Innovation and Business Strategy. After taking a discipline lead on a UKIERI-funded, inter-institutional PhD programme, I am an adjunct faculty member of the National Institute of Advanced Studies in Bangalore, India.

Professor Rebecca Loukes

Associate Professor of Performance Practice

Rebecca is a professional director, leading industry- and public-facing work. She is joint Artistic Director of award-winning company RedCape Theatre. She co-created and performed in The Idiot Colony Project, which was performed 96 times across 30 UK venues (including the Institute for Contemporary Arts, London, Warwick Arts Centre, Birmingham Rep and Plymouth Theatre Royal). The piece won a Scotsman Fringe First and Total Theatre Award for Visual Theatre in 2008. Other projects include 1 Beach Road and Be Brave and Leave for the Unknown; both received funding by the Arts Council England, toured extensively and were favourably reviewed.

She is a regular collaborator of ArtsCross, a long-term initiative bringing together academics, artists and producers across cultural, national and artistic borders (partners include: Beijing Dance Academy, Taipei National University of the Arts, Shanghai Theatre Academy and Hong Kong Academy of the Performing Arts). She researches histories of performer training, with a particular focus on women’s legacies, and co-edits Routledge’s Perspectives in Performer Training.