Leanne Groeneveld
Assistant Professor
Media, Art, and Performance
University of Regina
Canada
Biography
Leanne Groeneveld received both her BA Honours and PhD from the University of Alberta. Her academic home is Campion College where she teaches theatre history, dramaturgy, and dramatic literature/criticism courses for the department. She has published on a number of aspects of medieval religious drama and is currently researching late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century receptions and representations (in English) of the Oberammergau Passion Play. Leanne had a brief (1995-2001) career in fringe theatre. Her proudest achievement was a starring role in The Switchblade Oratorio, a five-star-reviewed production at the 2000 Edmonton Fringe. She played Liz, a manipulative murderess who machinated the grisly deaths of four characters, including one very similar to (but for legal reasons not) Conrad Black.
Research Interest
Late medieval theatre production; late medieval and early modern religious drama; medieval aesthetics; medieval Passion drama; late medieval and early modern representations of Christ's body; Canadian, American, and UK representations of/responses to the Oberammergau Passion Play (1850-1950); modern Passion drama.
