Английская Википедия:Elspeth Tilley

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Use New Zealand English Шаблон:Infobox academic Elspeth Nina Tilley is an Australian playwright, actor and academic and is a full professor at Massey University in Wellington, New Zealand.

Academic career

Tilley earned a BA(Hons) in 1996 at the University of Queensland with a thesis called More than one and solo: subjectivity in contemporary Australian and Canadian monodrama, which she followed with a PhD in drama and literature in 2007.[1] Her doctoral thesis, also at Queensland, was titled White vanishing: a settler Australian hegemonic textual strategy, 1789-2006.[2][3] After this Tilley moved to Massey University, where she was promoted to full professor in 2023.[4]

Tilley's research covers theatre, performance, literature, media and public communication, examining ethics and social justice.[5] She has published four books, including White Vanishing and Creative Activism: Research, Pedagogy and Practice.[4]

Tilley's plays have been published in Canada, New Zealand, the USA and the UK, produced around the world. Her plays have featured in a variety of festivals including the British Theatre Challenge, Short + Sweet, Pint Sized Plays NZ, Climate Change Theatre Action, Stage-It 2 and have been translated into French, Italian, and Belizean Creole.[4][2]

Awards and honours

Tilley has won the British Theatre Challenge three times, in 2017, 2018 and 2019.[6] Tilley was an official playwright for Climate Change Theatre Action in 2015, 2017, and 2019.[6] She has also been awarded the Playwrights’ Association of New Zealand Outstanding Achievement Award (2018),[7] three teaching excellence awards, a Peking University Research Fellowship and a Prime Minister’s Group Scholarship to Latin America.[4]

Selected plays

  • Waiting for Go, 2017 (short play, winner of British Theatre Challenge in 2017)
  • Bunnies & Wolves, 2018 (short play, winner of British Theatre Challenge in 2018)
  • Fabio the Great, 2019 (short play, winner of British Theatre Challenge in 2019 and awarded ‘Best Play’ by audience vote at Pint Sized Plays New Zealand, 2019)
  • World, 2019 (finalist in Fratti-Newman Political Play Contest at Castillo Theatre in New York; equal first place in 2019 Playwrights’ Association of New Zealand Long Play Contest)
  • Te Hā Tangata: The breath of the people (verbatim play about houseless people)

Selected academic works

References

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