Company Directors: Lightwork - Image Performance

DIRECTORS

Andy Lavender

Andy Lavender Andy is a director, writer and academic manager. He is Professor of Contemporary Theatre and Dean of Research at the Central School of Speech and Drama, London.

He has directed all Lightwork's productions to date.
Other productions, as director, include Borchert's The Man Outside (Manchester International Festival of Expressionism), the world premiere of Brecht and Auden's version of Webster's The Duchess of Malfi (The Chelsea Centre) and, for the London International Mime Festival, Beckett's Acts Without Words (BAC and Périgueux, France), The Singularity and Forget Me Not (both Albany Theatre).
His writing on theatre includes a book, Hamlet in Pieces (Nick Hern Books, 2001), on adaptations of Shakespeare's Hamlet by Peter Brook, Robert Lepage and Robert Wilson, and chapters and articles on new and experimental theatre.
He was contracted by The Times to write arts features and prior to that was the Editor of City Limits magazine.

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie is a Reader in Theatre and Performance Studies and Head of Drama in the School of English and Drama at Queen Mary, University of London.

Her research focuses on relationships between contemporary performance and cultural identities, especially national and gender identities.
She has published the books Staging the UK (Manchester University Press, 2005) and The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance (co-authored with Paul Allain, 2006).
She has published articles and presented papers on a range of contemporary artists, companies and institutions, including Robert Lepage and Ex Machina, Artangel, DV8 Physical Theatre, Tinderbox Theatre Company (Belfast), Brith Gof, filmmaker Steve McQueen, installation artists Janet Cardiff, Tracey Emin and Michael Landy, and the Edinburgh International Festival and Fringe.
Her articles have been published in a range of books and journals, including Theatre Research International, Contemporary Theatre Review, Essays in Theatre, and Theatre Journal.
She is an Associate Editor of Contemporary Theatre Review and has co-edited (with Dan Rebellato) its special issue on Globalization and Theatre (16.1, 2006).
She and Andy Lavender are currently editing Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes for Manchester University Press.
With Dan Rebellato she is co-editor of Palgrave’s series Theatre &.
She teaches performance theory and practice.

Jeremy Johnston

Jeremy Johnston is a public servant by day

He has substantial experience of policy development, strategic planning, project management and organisational change,
He has worked in a wide range of social policy areas, including children services, criminal law and offender management.
He currently works for the Office for Criminal Justice Reform.

Sarah Gorman

Sarah Gorman Sarah is a Senior Lecturer at Roehampton University.

Her teaching and research interests include North American and European experimental theatre, Live Art, cultural politics & feminist performance.
Sarah has published a number of essays about contemporary performance in publications such as Contemporary Theatre Review & Performance Research, she has also contributed chapters to Kelleher & Ridout’s Contemporary Theatres in Europe (Routledge 2006) and Harvie and Lavender’s Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes (Palgrave 2008). She is currently preparing a book-length project on the work of Richard Maxwell and the New York City Players.
She has a background in arts administration, working at The Nuffield Theatre, Lancaster for 4 years (1993-1997) and curating Roehampton@Riverside in May 2002. She has also worked as an Arts Council of England assessor since 2002.

Emma Stoker

Emma Stroker Emma is a solicitor with Michael Simkins LLP, a leading media and entertainment law firm.