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Professor Gill Foster

Professor Gill Foster

fosterg@lsbu.ac.uk

Arts and Performance

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I am the Head of the School of Performance at London South Bank University where I lead a thriving performing arts department. My research focuses on theatre industry collaborations which develop inclusive, artistic projects at the intersection of education and professional theatre. I have developed a range of innovative partnerships with acting training institutions and theatres, both nationally and internationally. My work seeks to create a critical, performative pedagogic framework for artistic exploration, derived from the methodologies of theatre and drama.

My research is primarily practice-based and includes the following:

Blood Wedding: (Dramaturge)A bilingual theatre adaptation of Lorca’s famous play co-created with Transforming Arts Institute, Madrid, and performed in Madrid and London in 2018 and at the International Youth Arts Festival 2019 where it won the Audience Choice Award.

Crossing Borders: (Director) A co-created production with Ryerson School of Performance, this new play interrogates the migration stories of Japanese-Canadian and British-Iranian families. Premiered at the Massman Theatre, LA in 2018, toured to the Parados Festival, Toronto 2018 and the International Youth Arts Festival, 2019.

Mind the Gap!: An intergenerational theatre project developed in partnership with the New York Theatre Workshop and Southwark Playouse, performed at Southwark Playhouse in 2017 and 2019.

Sound and Fury (Director) devised in association with Volcano Theatre, premiered at the Shanghai Arts Festival 2013

Las Bicicletas Son Para El Verano by Fernando Fernan Gomez. (Director) Directed English translation for presentation at conference on Staging Translated Plays: Adaptation, Translation and Multi-mediality UEA June 2008

Bacchaefull (Performer/researcher). A research and development project for Dirty Market Theatre's award winning production of an adaptation of Euripides' The Bacchae, London 2008

Vertigo: I live with Black people (Performer /researcher) London Metropolitan University London April 2007

Oh What A Lovely War! (Director/researcher) EU funded bilingual production co-directed with performance artist Tim Crouch. France 2002

Romeo and Juliet (Director/researcher) EU funded bilingual adaptation of Shakespeare's play. Italy 2000

Courses taught

Acting and Performance - BA (Hons)

Postgraduate Research Supervision
Current
Mx D'Bi Young AnitafrikaUbuntu! Decolonial Performance Praxis by Black Womxn in Theatre a Black-Queer-Feminist Critical (Auto)ethnographyPhD
ProposalProjectRoleFunderStatusStatus last updated
Embedding industry partnerships in new actor training paradigms within the academyEmbedding industry partnerships in new actor training paradigms within the academyPrincipal InvestigatorArts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)OPEN In preparationFeb 2023
Prizes, awards, and accolades

National Teaching Fellowship (Nov 2019)

Advance HE


Drama Inspiration Award (Mar 2020)

Music and Drama Education


Mind the Gap!
Foster, Gill, Workman, David, Santiago-Jirau, Alexander and Garratt, Andrew Mind the Gap!

Mind the Gap! Post-show evaluation
Foster, G. (2019). Mind the Gap! Post-show evaluation . Southwark Playhouse

Mind the Gap! Documentation
Foster, G. (2019). Mind the Gap! Documentation.

As Divorce Approaches, a Bilingual Blood Wedding Opens a New Door
Foster, G. (2019). As Divorce Approaches, a Bilingual Blood Wedding Opens a New Door. Royal Central School of Speech and Drama: New Plays From Europe Blog.

Unravelling Hierarchies: Engaging Performative Pedagogies Within A Creative, Transnational Partnership To Enhance Socio-Cultural Resilience
Foster, G. (2019). Unravelling Hierarchies: Engaging Performative Pedagogies Within A Creative, Transnational Partnership To Enhance Socio-Cultural Resilience. in: Campbell, L. (ed.) Leap into Action: Critical Performative Pedagogies in Art and Design Education Peter Lang.

Mind the Gap! A transatlantic, intergenerational theatre project
Foster, G. (2021). Mind the Gap! A transatlantic, intergenerational theatre project. Youth Theatre Journal. 34 (2), pp. 146-157. https://doi.org/10.1080/08929092.2020.1842831

Mind the Gap!
Foster, G. (2020). Mind the Gap! London South Bank University.