Theatre and Performance Studies News
TOP STORY: TaPRA 2025 Conference to be hosted at Warwick
We're delighted to announce that the annual Theatre and Performance Research Association (TaPRA) conference will be hosted by Theatre and Performance Studies at Warwick between 27 and 29 August 2025. The conference will mark both the 20th birthday of TaPRA and the 50th anniversary of Theatre and Performance Studies at Warwick. Our conference keynotes, plenary panels, artistic activity, conference dinner and programmed events will speak to the themes of milestones and markers, focussing on celebrations, festivities, spectacle and joy. We'll look forward to welcoming you to Warwick next year!
To keep up to date with the conference plans, please visit our dedicated TaPRA pages here.
Creative Careers: Developing your Portfolio Career Workshop by Sarah McCourt
We are delighted to welcome Sarah McCourt, Director of Student Experience Employability and Digital Skills for the Faculty of Arts to the Department today. Sarah will be delivering a workshop on Creative Careers: Developing your Portfolio Career and is developing a 'Portfolio Careers in Performance and Theatre Making’ Moodle-hosted module for theatre and perfomrance studies students. More details about this module to follow.
Event Details
Workshop: Creative Careers: Developing your Portfolio Career
Place: G53, Millburn House.
Time: 15:30 to 16:30.
About Sarah McCourt
I manage a portfolio career that spans the creative industries and education. Trained at Manchester Metropolitan and Rose Bruford, I work as an actor in tv (Galavant), film (The Drifters) and theatre (Afterglow/Macbeth), as well as a range of corporate and event work. I am currently the Secretary for Equity Devon and Cornwall Branch. An experienced workshop and Youth Theatre leader, I have worked for the Northcott Theatre, Strode Theatre, infusionarts and PQA and currently work in that capacity for Theatre Alibi facilitating workshops for KS4 and 5. In 2008 I founded and am Artistic Director of Restless Theatre which is now a Community Interest Company. We began by making adaptations (Othello’s Dream, Monstrous Love, Much Ado About Nothing, Othello), with performances touring to Germany, London, and throughout the South West. This has developed into creating our own devised work which a strong focus on storytelling (Network Tales). A trained teacher (PGCE), I taught drama, acting and media in Further Education, eventually becoming Head of Faculty and undertaking work as an examiner for Edexcel. In 2005 I gave this up in order to study an MFA in Staging Shakespeare and a PhD at Exeter University focussing on contemporary adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays. Since completing my PhD I have worked as a Teaching Fellow in Drama at Royal Holloway University and am currently the Director for Student Experience (Employability) in the Arts Faculty at Warwick University.