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      Mr Bruce Adams

      BA (Hons), AFHEA
      ROLE: Lecturer in Theatre Directing and Dramaturgy
      DEPARTMENT: Performing Arts
      TELEPHONE: +44 (0)20 8411 5328
      EMAIL: B.Adams@mdx.ac.uk
      1. Biography &
        Qualifications
      2. Learning &
        Teaching Interests
      3. Research Outputs &
        Interests
      4. Funded Research &
        Knowledge Exchange Projects
      5. Engagement &
        Impact

      • Biography &
        Qualifications

        Bruce has worked with the Theatre Arts team since 2013 and practices as a theatre director and producer. His role at Middlesex is to embed professional practice and vocational skills across the suite of Theatre Arts programmes at UG/PG/FY level through practice-led teaching and knowledge transfer projects that raise the University's profile in industry, such as More Storm Festival and Theatre Arts Exchange, a pop-up venue at Edinburgh Fringe.

        He has directed the world premieres of over ten new plays at notable venues including Theatre503 and the King’s Head Theatre. He is artistic director of critically acclaimed theatre company Thrust, which he founded in 2007 and with which he has directed and produced both new and radically reinterpreted work including papercut– (Theatre Arts Exchange), Inheritance (King's Head), Request Programme, Pornography (Otherplace Brighton), and The Bell Jar (MDX).

        Bruce’s doctoral research in the Faculty of Arts and Creative Industries examines the overlap between dramaturgy and scenography from the director’s perspective, and the potentials for scenography to function as a form of disruptive dramaturgy.

        His teaching interests include professional practice and producing for theatre; directing and dramaturgy for the stage; scenography, including sound design; and ensemble performance work. He has also worked extensively with children and young people as a drama teacher and facilitator.

        Qualifications:

        • BA (Hons) Theatre Arts (Theatre Directing)
        • Associate Fellow, Higher Education Academy

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      • Learning &
        Teaching Interests

        Teaching interests:

        • Directing, dramaturgy and performance
        • Arts management and professional practice
        • Academic writing

        Module leaderships:

        • THE1100 Theatre Arts 1
        • THE3120 Theatre Arts Project

        Module teaching:

        • PER0300 Cross-Arts Collaborating
        • THE1100 Theatre Arts 1
        • THE2200 Body, Voice and Direction
        • THE2300 Design, Application and Direction
        • THE3120 Theatre Arts Project
        • THE3230 Practice as Research (+60 credit variant)
        • THE3600 Contemporary Directing Practice
        • THE4200 Independent Project: Extending Practices

      • Research Outputs &
        Interests

        Doctoral candidate in the Faculty of Arts and Creative Industries. Researching the potentials of scenography as a form of disruptive dramaturgy.

      • Funded Research &
        Knowledge Exchange Projects

      • Engagement &
        Impact

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