Theatre research students
Get to know our Theatre students and gain an insight into their research.
Students are listed alphabetically under their respective degrees.
PhD in Theatre
Shekinah Jacob
Thesis title: 'The Pied Piper of Pantomime: Exploiting the Pantomime’s Inherent Framework of Aesthetic Distance and Playfulness to Engineer Change Through TYA'
Supervisors: Megan Evans & Lori Leigh
Fran Kewene
Thesis title: 'How can a kauapapa Māori theatre-based research methodology evaluate what a good life is for non-verbal autistic Māori'
Supervisors: David O'Donnell & Nicola Hyland
Sepe Mua'au
Thesis title: 'Decolonising Theatre Frameworks'
Supervisors: Nicola Hyland & David O'Donnell
Priyanka Roy
Thesis title: 'Playing Feminine Rage: Bodies, Identities and the Performative Embodiment of Emotions on Shakespeare’s Stage'
Supervisors: David O'Donnell & James Wenley