Helen Evans, Ph.D (she/her)
A S E D U C A T O R / D I R E C T O R
TRINITY LABAN CONSERVATOIRE OF MUSIC AND DANCE 2013 - current
Acting Course Coordinator,/ Senior Lecturer/ Director
BA (Hons) Musical Theatre Performance September, 2013 - current
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FONTAINEBLEAU SCHOOL OF ACTING Spring 2019
Acting-through-Song tutor
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THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICHESTER 2016
Associate Lecturer | BA (Hons) Acting
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ROYAL CENTRAL SCHOOL OF SPEECH AND DRAMA since 2008
Visiting Lecturer | BA (Hons) Drama, Applied Theatre & Education
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BRUNEL UNIVERSITY Jan – May 2013
Visiting Lecturer | BA (Hons) Performing Arts
NEW THEATRE WRITING module
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THE MUSICAL THEATRE ACADEMY, London Oct 2010 – Sept 2013
Head of Acting/Acting Tutor/Director
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UNIVERSITY OF CHICHESTER 2008 - 2011
Associate Lecturer/Director| BA (Hons) Performance Arts
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CENTRAL SCHOOL OF SPEECH AND DRAMA 2007
External Examiner BA (Hons) Theatre Practice
Dissertation Assessments
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BRETTON HALL COLLEGE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS 2001 & 2
Visiting Director/ Choreographer
Molly Osborne and David Sharp
T E A C H I N G A R E A S
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ACTOR TRAINING/PRAXIS: Informed by both Drama and Performance discipline
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DRAMA: Naturalism/Realism - practitioners, playwrights, contexts, methodologies and theoretical texts; Shakespeare; non-naturalism including, Theatre of Cruelty, Epic Theatre, Absurdist Theatre, Postdramatic Theatre, New Theatre Writing, Improvisation and Commedia dell’Arte
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DIRECTING: Both devised productions and established texts
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DEVISING: Collaborative theatre from both linguistic/new writing and somatic origins
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MUSICAL THEATRE: Acting, acting-through-song, and the direction of productions
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MENTORING (Individual and group): For performance and directing practice and dissertations
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ASSESSMENTS: For both practical and written work
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METHODS: Praxis, Lectures, Seminars and Directing
E D U C A T I O N
PH.D. I SPY: PERFORMANCE, POLITICITY AND THE SURVEILLANCE TURN 2020
Award: Royal Central School of Speech and Drama Research Bursary
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MA PERFORMANCE PRACTICES AND RESEARCH Distinction
Royal Central school of Speech and Drama 2006-7
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BA (Hons) ACTING First Class
Bretton Hall College of the University of Leeds 1995-8
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