Dr Eleanor Chadwick

PhD Theatre Studies, University of Warwick; MFA Staging Shakespeare, University of Exeter; BA (Hons) English, University of Bristol

Contemporary theatre; acting technique & actor training; classical theatre; intercultural theatre.

Immersive and multi-sensory theatre; digital theatre; experimental theatre; intercultural theatre; ritual; theatrical heritage; medieval and early modern theatre; practice-as-research; audience research; actor training.

Books:

• Eleanor Chadwick, Historically-Responsive Storytelling: How Contemporary Western Theatre is Rediscovering its Roots (London: Routledge, accepted/forthcoming).

Book chapters:

• Eleanor Chadwick, ‘History, Her Story, or Our Story? Navigating the Tensions of Historically-Responsive Storytelling in Emilia’, Laura Kressly, Aida Patient, Kimberly A. Williams (eds), Morgan Lloyd Malcolm’s Emilia: A Companion Reader (London: Routledge, accepted/forthcoming 2022).
• Eleanor Chadwick, ‘Fantasizing History: Anachronism, Creative License and the Re-emergence of an Early Language of Storytelling’, Paul Hardwick and Kate Lister (eds), Vikings and the Vikings: The Norse World(s) of the History Channel Series (Jefferson: McFarland, 2019).

Journal articles:

• Eleanor Chadwick, ‘Tracing a “global” female body: transnational feminism, Ana Mendieta, and Trace of Us’, Istanbul University Journal of Women’s Studies (İstanbul Üniversitesi Kadın Araştırmaları Dergisi), Special Issue on women, dance and music (forthcoming 2023).
• Ana Levordashka, Danaë Stanton Fraser, Iain D. Gilchrist, Paul Hill, and Eleanor Chadwick, ‘Sensing the Audience in Digital Streaming: Lessons from a Global Pandemic’, Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 472 (May 2021), 1–6, <https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3411763.3451816>.

Reviews:

• Eleanor Chadwick, ‘Theatre and Cognitive Neuroscience’, South African Theatre Journal (16 Aug 2016), x-xiii, <tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10137548.2016.1218203>.

Blogs / magazine articles:

• Eleanor Chadwick, ‘Can you believe your ears? Exploring the use of illusory sound to manipulate audience realities’, The Writing Platform (May 2021), <http://thewritingplatform.com/2021/05/can-you-believe-your-ears-exploring-the-use-of-illusory-sound-to-manipulate-audience-realities/>.
• Eleanor Chadwick, Future Themes Blog - “Ana Mendieta and Us”: the Silhouettes Project, Watershed Pervasive Media Studio Blog (April 2021), <https://www.watershed.co.uk/studio/news/2021/04/08/future-themes-blog-ana-mendieta-and-us-silhouettes-project-part-one-about-project/>.
• Eleanor Chadwick, ‘The Global Researcher: Top Tips for Intercultural Research’, AHRC Arts and Minds Blog (October 2020), <https://ahrc-blog.com/2020/10/06/top-tips-for-intercultural-research/>.
• Eleanor Chadwick, ‘In Times of Crisis: Expanding Performance for Collective Wellbeing’, Expanded Performance Blog (August 2020), <https://bristolbathcreative.org/article/in-times-of-crisis-expanding-performance-for-collective-wellbeing>.
• Eleanor Chadwick, ‘(Re)producing Historical Realities’, Creative Histories of Witchcraft Blog (15 October 2019), <https://creativewitchcraft.wordpress.com/2019/10/15/reproducing-historical-realities/>.
• Eleanor Chadwick, ‘Intercultural Theatre: A Melting Pot of Inspiration’, StoneCrabs Theatre Company Blog (30 January 2017), <https://stonecrabs.co.uk/intercultural-theatre-a-melting-pot-of-inspiration/>.

Interviews:

• ‘Lecturer at Plymouth Marjon University, Ellie Chadwick: 'Take joy in doing some form of art for its own sake', The Stage, John Byrne (1 June 2022) <https://www.thestage.co.uk/advice/lecturer-at-plymouth-marjon-university-ellie-chadwick-take-joy-in-doing-some-form-of-art-for-its-own-sake>
• ‘Stream’, The Digital Human Series 21, presented by Aleks Krotoski, BBC Radio 4 (16 November 2020), <https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000pfd6>.
• NA Meets: playwright Kristofer Grønskag & director Ellie Chadwick, by Marte Eide and Jonas Henmo, Norwegian Arts, Royal Norwegian Embassy (28 April 2020), <http://norwegianarts.org.uk/na-meets-playwright-kristofer-gronskag-director-ellie-chadwick/>.

Founding co-convenor of the Performance Working Group, Network for Embodied Consciousness and the Arts (NECTArts) 

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