Leslie Hill

Biography

Leslie Hill teaches courses in Performance Making, Directing & Dramaturgy, Arts Activism and British Theatre. She is co-director of Curious theatre company (www.placelessness.com). Her interests include Live Art, Applied Theatre, arts activism, British Theatre, immersive theatre, and science-art collaborations. Her performance work with Curious, produced by Artsadmin in London, has been shown in 18 countries, commissioned and produced by organizations such as Artist Links Shanghai, Franklin Furnace, PS122, the RSC, the Wellcome Trust, Arts Council England, Carriageworks Sydney, Sydney Opera House, Tanzquartier Vienna, Alfred ve dvoře Prague, the Old Power Station, Ljubljana, Le Couvent des Recollets Paris, Centre Pompidou and the National Review of Live Art, Glasgow. Her new book Sex, Suffrage and the Stage: Early Feminism in British Theatre is forthcoming from Palgrave Macmillan in 2016. She is co-author of Performing Proximity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) and co-editor of Performance and Place (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006). Her articles have appeared in journals such as Performance Research, Contemporary Theatre Review and New Theatre Quarterly. Originally from New Mexico, Hill lived in the UK for 20 years where she co-founded Curious theatre company with Helen Paris in 1996. Hill received a double major in English and Philosophy from the University of New Mexico in 1989, an MA from the Shakespeare Institute in 1991, and a Ph.D in Theatre from the University of Glasgow in 1996.

Research Interest

Performance Making; Theater-Making Concentration Advisor