Professor Stephen Greer

  • Professor of Theatre and Performance (Theatre, Film & Television Studies)

telephone: 01413306354
email: Stephen.Greer@glasgow.ac.uk

Theatre Film & Television, Studies

Import to contacts

ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-9722-3643

Research interests

My research is centred on the intersection of contemporary theatre and performance, cultural politics and queer theory.

I am the author of Contemporary British Queer Performance (Palgrave Macmillan 2012) and Queer exceptions: solo performance in neoliberal times (Manchester University Press 2018) as well as a range of essays and articles about British and European theatre. I most often write about live performance in relation to questions concerning sexuality and gender, but have broad interests in the cultural politics of visual art, TV, film and video-games.

My current research focuses on the histories and futures of Live Art and experimental performance in Scotland.

I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a member of the editorial board for the journal RiDE: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance and the advisory board for Contemporary Theatre Review. I am a former convenor of the Performance, Identity and Community working group of the Theatre and Performance Research Association (TaPRA), and a member of the Queer Futures working group of IFTR/FIRT.

I also work with arts and cultural organisations across Scotland and the UK. I am currently the co-chair of the Board for leading independent theatre group Company of Wolves, and a trustee of the international festival and live art sector support agency Take Me Somewhere.

Publications

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2025

Greer, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9722-3643 (2025) Performativity after repetition? Queer and feminist praxis in Nic Green's Cock and Bull and Jade Montserrat's Revue/Shadowing Josephine. In: Fragkou, Marissia and Benzie, Rebecca (eds.) The Methuen Drama Handbook of Women in Contemporary British Theatre. Series: Methuen drama handbooks. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9781350360259

2024

Greer, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9722-3643 (2024) Ghosts and Jumbies: decolonial live art in Scotland. Contemporary Theatre Review, 34(3), pp. 359-373. (doi: 10.1080/10486801.2024.2388036)

Greer, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9722-3643 and Patey-Ferguson, Phoebe (2024) Live Art: radicalism and complicity in a scene of constraint. Contemporary Theatre Review, 34(3), pp. 231-250. (doi: 10.1080/10486801.2024.2388944)

Greer, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9722-3643 (2024) From the ‘miraculous’ to the radical: towards a methodology for researching live art and performance art in Scotland. In: Gebhardt Fink, Sabine, Gusman, Tacredi and Mircev, Andrej (eds.) Revolving Documents—Narrations of Beginnings, Recent Methods and Cross-Mappings of Performance Art. Series: 745. Kunst Design Medienkultu. Diaphanes AG. ISBN 9783035806830

2023

Greer, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9722-3643 (2023) A Replica of a Replica: Memory, trauma and monumental repair. Performance Research, 28(8), pp. 123-124. (doi: 10.1080/13528165.2023.2389668)[Book Review]

Greer, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9722-3643 (2023) Live and Now - Live Art in Scotland podcast. [Audio]

Greer, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9722-3643 (2023) Ten years of The Gospel According to Jesus, Queen of Heaven: reflections on the history of trans and non-binary performance in Scotland. Contemporary Theatre Review, 33(1-2), pp. 165-170. (doi: 10.1080/10486801.2023.2182079)

2022

Greer, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9722-3643 and White, Bryony (Eds.) (2022) Now / Not Now. University of Glasgow.

Greer, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9722-3643 and White, Bryony (2022) Live Art Scotland Practitioner Directory. Finding Aid. Live Art in Scotland, University of Glasgow. (doi: 10.36399/gla.pubs.265874).

Greer, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9722-3643 (2022) Live Art in Scotland - Research Resources. Finding Aid. University of Glasgow. (doi: 10.36399/gla.pubs.276220).

2021

Greer, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9722-3643 (2021) Absent histories: working with the archival traces of live art in Scotland. In: Wolfsteiner, Andreas, Trachsel, Ekaterina, Bachmann, Michael and Heinrich, Anselm (eds.) Live Art Data: New Strategies in Theatre Archiving. Neue Strategien der Theaterarchivierung Scotland // Niedersachsen. Universitätsverlag Hildesheim: Hildesheim, pp. 74-79. ISBN 9783964240590

Greer, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9722-3643 (2021) Funding resilience: market rationalism and the UK's "mixed economy" for the arts. Cultural Trends, 30(3), pp. 222-240. (doi: 10.1080/09548963.2020.1852875)

Ames, Margaret and Greer, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9722-3643 (2021) Renegotiating resilience, redefining resourcefulness. Research in Drama Education, 26(1), pp. 1-8. (doi: 10.1080/13569783.2020.1863143)

2020

Greer, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9722-3643 (2020) Training for live art: process pedagogies and New Moves International's Winter Schools. Theatre, Dance and Performance Training, 11(2), pp. 214-228. (doi: 10.1080/19443927.2020.1748100)

2018

Greer, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9722-3643 (2018) Queer Exceptions. Manchester University Press: Manchester, UK. ISBN 9781526113696

Greer, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9722-3643 (2018) The Writer [Programme Note]. In: Hickson, Ella (ed.) The Writer. Almedia.

Greer, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9722-3643 (2018) Between care and self-care: dramaturgies of mindfulness in the work of the vacuum cleaner. Scottish Journal of Performance, 5(1), pp. 25-47. (doi: 10.14439/sjop.2018.0501.04)

Greer, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9722-3643 (2018) Gender drift: Testo Junkie, queer performativity and molecular becoming. Performance Research, 23(7), pp. 63-71. (doi: 10.1080/13528165.2018.1557450)

Shah, Sonali and Greer, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9722-3643 (2018) Polio Monologues: translating ethnographic text into verbatim theatre. Qualitative Research, 18(1), pp. 53-69. (doi: 10.1177/1468794117696141)

2017

Greer, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9722-3643 (2017) The Contemporary American Monologue: Performance and Politics by Eddie Paterson. Contemporary Theatre Review, 27(2), pp. 287-288. (doi: 10.1080/10486801.2017.1311085)[Book Review]

2016

Greer, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9722-3643 (2016) ‘King of the ring, and Queen of it too’: the exotic masculinity of Adrian Street. In: Chow, Broderick, Laine, Eero and Warden, Claire (eds.) Performance and Professional Wrestling. Routledge: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, pp. 118-126. ISBN 9781138937222

Greer, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9722-3643 (2016) The economies of Adrian Howells. In: Heddon, Deirdre and Johnson, Dominic (eds.) It's All Allowed: The Performances of Adrian Howells. Series: Intellect Live. Intellect: London, UK. ISBN 9781783205899

Greer, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9722-3643 (2016) Queer/Welsh and Welsh/queer: performing hybrid Wales. In: Osborne, Huw (ed.) Queer Wales: The History, Culture and Politics of Queer Life in Wales. Series: Gender studies in Wales. University of Wales Press: Cardiff. ISBN 9781783168637

2015

Greer, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9722-3643 (2015) Queer (mis)recognition in the BBC’s Sherlock. Adaptation, 8(1), pp. 50-67. (doi: 10.1093/adaptation/apu039)

Greer, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9722-3643 (2015) Queer exceptions. Theatre Research International, 40(1), pp. 92-95. (doi: 10.1017/S0307883314000625)

Greer, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9722-3643 (2015) After documentary theatre: exceptionality in National Theatre Wales ' The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning. In: Campbell, Alyson and Farrier, Stephen (eds.) Queer Dramaturgies: International Perspectives on Where Performance Leads Queer. Series: Contemporary Performance InterActions. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 116-130. ISBN 9781137411853

2014

Greer, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9722-3643 (2014) 'Even if we do not take things seriously… we are still doing them': Disidentification, ideology, and queer performance. In: Chow, Broderick and Mangold, Alex (eds.) Žižek and Performance. Series: Performance philosophy. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9781137410900

2013

Greer, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9722-3643 (2013) Playing queer: affordances for sexuality in fable and dragon age. Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds, 5(1), pp. 3-21. (doi: 10.1386/jgvw.5.1.3_1)

Greer, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9722-3643 (2013) Review of: Martin Sherman: Skipping over Quicksand, Trish Dace (2012). Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance, 7(1), p. 121. (doi: 10.1386/jafp.7.1.121_5)[Book Review]

Greer, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9722-3643 (2013) Temporary legitimacy: queer possibilities in digital performance. In: Causey, M. and Walsh, F. (eds.) Performance, Identity, and the Neo-Political Subject. Series: Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies (28). Routledge, pp. 185-200. ISBN 9780415509657

2012

Greer, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9722-3643 (2012) Contemporary British Queer Performance. Series: Performance interventions. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke. ISBN 9780230304420

2011

Greer, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9722-3643 (2011) Collaborative performance and asynchronous action: world without oil's fragmented forum. International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, 7(1), pp. 61-76. (doi: 10.1386/padm.7.1.61_1)

Greer, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9722-3643 (2011) Staging legitimacy: theorising identity claims in anti-homophobia theatre-in-education. Research in Drama Education, 16(1), pp. 55-74. (doi: 10.1080/13569783.2011.541608)

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Articles

Greer, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9722-3643 (2024) Ghosts and Jumbies: decolonial live art in Scotland. Contemporary Theatre Review, 34(3), pp. 359-373. (doi: 10.1080/10486801.2024.2388036)

Greer, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9722-3643 and Patey-Ferguson, Phoebe (2024) Live Art: radicalism and complicity in a scene of constraint. Contemporary Theatre Review, 34(3), pp. 231-250. (doi: 10.1080/10486801.2024.2388944)

Greer, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9722-3643 (2023) Ten years of The Gospel According to Jesus, Queen of Heaven: reflections on the history of trans and non-binary performance in Scotland. Contemporary Theatre Review, 33(1-2), pp. 165-170. (doi: 10.1080/10486801.2023.2182079)

Greer, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9722-3643 (2021) Funding resilience: market rationalism and the UK's "mixed economy" for the arts. Cultural Trends, 30(3), pp. 222-240. (doi: 10.1080/09548963.2020.1852875)

Ames, Margaret and Greer, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9722-3643 (2021) Renegotiating resilience, redefining resourcefulness. Research in Drama Education, 26(1), pp. 1-8. (doi: 10.1080/13569783.2020.1863143)

Greer, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9722-3643 (2020) Training for live art: process pedagogies and New Moves International's Winter Schools. Theatre, Dance and Performance Training, 11(2), pp. 214-228. (doi: 10.1080/19443927.2020.1748100)

Greer, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9722-3643 (2018) Between care and self-care: dramaturgies of mindfulness in the work of the vacuum cleaner. Scottish Journal of Performance, 5(1), pp. 25-47. (doi: 10.14439/sjop.2018.0501.04)

Greer, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9722-3643 (2018) Gender drift: Testo Junkie, queer performativity and molecular becoming. Performance Research, 23(7), pp. 63-71. (doi: 10.1080/13528165.2018.1557450)

Shah, Sonali and Greer, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9722-3643 (2018) Polio Monologues: translating ethnographic text into verbatim theatre. Qualitative Research, 18(1), pp. 53-69. (doi: 10.1177/1468794117696141)

Greer, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9722-3643 (2015) Queer (mis)recognition in the BBC’s Sherlock. Adaptation, 8(1), pp. 50-67. (doi: 10.1093/adaptation/apu039)

Greer, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9722-3643 (2015) Queer exceptions. Theatre Research International, 40(1), pp. 92-95. (doi: 10.1017/S0307883314000625)

Greer, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9722-3643 (2013) Playing queer: affordances for sexuality in fable and dragon age. Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds, 5(1), pp. 3-21. (doi: 10.1386/jgvw.5.1.3_1)

Greer, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9722-3643 (2011) Collaborative performance and asynchronous action: world without oil's fragmented forum. International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, 7(1), pp. 61-76. (doi: 10.1386/padm.7.1.61_1)

Greer, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9722-3643 (2011) Staging legitimacy: theorising identity claims in anti-homophobia theatre-in-education. Research in Drama Education, 16(1), pp. 55-74. (doi: 10.1080/13569783.2011.541608)

Books

Greer, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9722-3643 (2018) Queer Exceptions. Manchester University Press: Manchester, UK. ISBN 9781526113696

Greer, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9722-3643 (2012) Contemporary British Queer Performance. Series: Performance interventions. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke. ISBN 9780230304420

Book Sections

Greer, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9722-3643 (2025) Performativity after repetition? Queer and feminist praxis in Nic Green's Cock and Bull and Jade Montserrat's Revue/Shadowing Josephine. In: Fragkou, Marissia and Benzie, Rebecca (eds.) The Methuen Drama Handbook of Women in Contemporary British Theatre. Series: Methuen drama handbooks. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9781350360259

Greer, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9722-3643 (2024) From the ‘miraculous’ to the radical: towards a methodology for researching live art and performance art in Scotland. In: Gebhardt Fink, Sabine, Gusman, Tacredi and Mircev, Andrej (eds.) Revolving Documents—Narrations of Beginnings, Recent Methods and Cross-Mappings of Performance Art. Series: 745. Kunst Design Medienkultu. Diaphanes AG. ISBN 9783035806830

Greer, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9722-3643 (2021) Absent histories: working with the archival traces of live art in Scotland. In: Wolfsteiner, Andreas, Trachsel, Ekaterina, Bachmann, Michael and Heinrich, Anselm (eds.) Live Art Data: New Strategies in Theatre Archiving. Neue Strategien der Theaterarchivierung Scotland // Niedersachsen. Universitätsverlag Hildesheim: Hildesheim, pp. 74-79. ISBN 9783964240590

Greer, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9722-3643 (2018) The Writer [Programme Note]. In: Hickson, Ella (ed.) The Writer. Almedia.

Greer, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9722-3643 (2016) ‘King of the ring, and Queen of it too’: the exotic masculinity of Adrian Street. In: Chow, Broderick, Laine, Eero and Warden, Claire (eds.) Performance and Professional Wrestling. Routledge: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, pp. 118-126. ISBN 9781138937222

Greer, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9722-3643 (2016) The economies of Adrian Howells. In: Heddon, Deirdre and Johnson, Dominic (eds.) It's All Allowed: The Performances of Adrian Howells. Series: Intellect Live. Intellect: London, UK. ISBN 9781783205899

Greer, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9722-3643 (2016) Queer/Welsh and Welsh/queer: performing hybrid Wales. In: Osborne, Huw (ed.) Queer Wales: The History, Culture and Politics of Queer Life in Wales. Series: Gender studies in Wales. University of Wales Press: Cardiff. ISBN 9781783168637

Greer, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9722-3643 (2015) After documentary theatre: exceptionality in National Theatre Wales ' The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning. In: Campbell, Alyson and Farrier, Stephen (eds.) Queer Dramaturgies: International Perspectives on Where Performance Leads Queer. Series: Contemporary Performance InterActions. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 116-130. ISBN 9781137411853

Greer, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9722-3643 (2014) 'Even if we do not take things seriously… we are still doing them': Disidentification, ideology, and queer performance. In: Chow, Broderick and Mangold, Alex (eds.) Žižek and Performance. Series: Performance philosophy. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9781137410900

Greer, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9722-3643 (2013) Temporary legitimacy: queer possibilities in digital performance. In: Causey, M. and Walsh, F. (eds.) Performance, Identity, and the Neo-Political Subject. Series: Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies (28). Routledge, pp. 185-200. ISBN 9780415509657

Book Reviews

Greer, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9722-3643 (2023) A Replica of a Replica: Memory, trauma and monumental repair. Performance Research, 28(8), pp. 123-124. (doi: 10.1080/13528165.2023.2389668)[Book Review]

Greer, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9722-3643 (2017) The Contemporary American Monologue: Performance and Politics by Eddie Paterson. Contemporary Theatre Review, 27(2), pp. 287-288. (doi: 10.1080/10486801.2017.1311085)[Book Review]

Greer, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9722-3643 (2013) Review of: Martin Sherman: Skipping over Quicksand, Trish Dace (2012). Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance, 7(1), p. 121. (doi: 10.1386/jafp.7.1.121_5)[Book Review]

Edited Books

Greer, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9722-3643 and White, Bryony (Eds.) (2022) Now / Not Now. University of Glasgow.

Research Reports or Papers

Greer, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9722-3643 and White, Bryony (2022) Live Art Scotland Practitioner Directory. Finding Aid. Live Art in Scotland, University of Glasgow. (doi: 10.36399/gla.pubs.265874).

Greer, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9722-3643 (2022) Live Art in Scotland - Research Resources. Finding Aid. University of Glasgow. (doi: 10.36399/gla.pubs.276220).

Audio

Greer, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9722-3643 (2023) Live and Now - Live Art in Scotland podcast. [Audio]

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Grants

In 2021/2I, I held an AHRC Leadership Fellowship for the Live Art in Scotland project.

Though Scotland has been home to some of Live Art’s most (in)famous events, existing histories of theatre and performance emphasize a literary dramatic tradition of plays and playwrights, and rarely address Live Art as a significant field of practice. This project intends to redress that omission while exploring the structures of curation, programming and funding that might enable experimental performance practices to thrive.

The broader ambition of the project is also informed by an understanding of how ‘resilience’ has become a significant concept in UK arts funding circles, often with very little regard for its consequence for individual arts practitioners, especially those who are already excluded from or marginalised within the cultural sector. This idea is especially consequential for a sector already characterized by risk and experimentation, and dominated by solo and/or freelance practitioners.

Supervision

I welcome proposals from prospective PhD or MPhil students who are interested in studying at the University of Glasgow. I am particularly able to support projects engaging with:

  • contemporary British / European theatre and performance
  • Live Art and solo performance
  • queer studies / sexuality, gender and feminism
  • new media and digital performance / theatre, performance and gaming
  • social and applied theatre
  • the cultural politics of neoliberalism 

For initial conversations and to discuss possible funding routes, please contact me at stephen.greer@glasgow.ac.uk.

  • Capaldi, Eleanor
    To what extent can the use of digitised images of artwork facilitate polyvocality of interpretation online?
  • Kitzman, Daniel Robert
    (un)Sung: An Investigation into the Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Opera Singers’ Artistic Identities and Creativity

Teaching

I am the Research and Impact Convenor for the School of Culture and Creative Arts.

I lecture widely across our undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, and lead specialist Honours courses including Live Art: Theories, Historices and Practices, The Activist Stage and Queer Exceptions. Focusing on contemporary and c20th performance, my teaching combines traditional university formats – lectures and seminars – with practice-based workshops. This approach is grounded in the belief that theory, history and practice can inform each other, and that performance can be used to ask and answer questions in the same moment. My areas of expertise include LGBTQ performance, political theatre, documentary and verbatim practices, as well as devising and improvisation.

In my previous roles as exams officer and convenor of level 1 Theatre Studies, I won an STA Award for Best Feedback and a College of Arts Individual Teaching Excellence Award.

Research datasets

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2023

Greer, S. (2023) Live Art in Scotland Interview Collection. [Data Collection]

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Additional information

Invited talks

  • University of Barcelona. ‘Feeling unsafe – queer affect on and off the British stage’. Barcelona, Spain. November 2023.
  • Royal Holloway University of London. ‘Oral and archival histories: approaches to Cross-Historiographies of Theatre and Performance Art’, April 2023.
  • Central School of Speech and Drama. ‘Live art and the risk of the radical’. November 2022.
  • From the ‘miraculous’ to the radical: towards a methodology for researching live art and performance art in Scotland. Revolving Documents#1: Narrations of the Beginnings of Performance Art. Basel, Switzerland. June 2022.
  • SCUDD (Standing Committee of University Drama Departments) Annual Conference. Futures Roundtable. Online. June 2021.
  • Deakin Creative Arts Research Symposium. ‘The making of an arts-based career’. Deakin University. Melbourne, Australia. November 2019.
  • ‘Queer optimism and theatre at the end of the world’. London Theatre Seminar, Institute of English Studies, University of London. December 2017.

External examiner roles

My expertise in live art, queer and contemporary British performance is recognised in a wide range of invitations to act as external PhD examiner for written and practice-based PhDs at institutions including the Royal College of Art, University of Nottingham, University of Manchester, Guildlhall School of Music & Drama, Goldsmiths University of London, Royal Holloway University of London, the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of Hull, Queen Mary University of London, Deakin University (Melbourne) and the University of Barcelona.

I am currently external examiner for the MA Theatre Practice (Training and Performance, Applied Theatre) degree programme at University of Exeter and for the BA Drama, Applied Theatre and Education, BA Writing for Performance and Experimental Arts / Performance Arts programmes at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.


Dr Steve Greer