Research

Book Chapter 

  • “Intersections and Encounters: the meshwork of an international Australian/Jordanian puppet theatre collaboration,” in Western Theatre in Global Contexts, Routledge, 2020.

Peer-Reviewed Articles

  • “The truth behind the screen: Digital shadows in the time of pandemic,” Journal of Applied Arts & Health, 2020.
  • “Shifting Hybridity: An Intercultural Arab–Australian Shadow Theatre Performance,” Australasian Drama Studies, 2020.
  • “Conjuring unseen forces: Rainmaking in Australia with John Henry Pepper,” Journal of Science and Popular Culture, 2019.
  • Mesh Theatre: The Intermedial Life of Images, Objects and Puppets on Stage, School of Arts, Social Sciences and Commerce, PhD thesis, La Trobe University, 2017.

Non-Peer Reviewed Publications

  • “Working with Things: an exploration of materiality in the puppet theatre,” Garland Magazine, 2018.
  • thingmaking.net– A series of ten audio interviews with leading Australian arts practitioners.

Publications;

Conference Papers;

  • Conjuring Unseen Forces: the science and magic of rainmaking at Imagineers in Circus and Science: Scientific Knowledge and Creative Imagination, The Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University, April 2018,
  • Screens of the Shadow Theatre: gateways between the material and immaterial at the International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR) conference in Stockholm, 2016, Intermediality Working Group,
  • Revitalizing the Puppet Theatre: using new technologies to play between the seen and unseen Australian Drama Studies Association Conference, 2016 Resilience: Revive, Restore, Reconnect,
  • Moving Screens: gateways between the material and immaterial PSi #21 Fluid States: Performances of UnKnowing, Australia – ‘Performing Mobilities’ Symposium in Melbourne, Australia, RMIT and University of Melbourne, 2015 and
  • Performing Objects: Working in the space between materiality and the imagination Transversal Practices: Matter, Ecology and Relationality V1 Conference on New Materialisms, 27-29 September 2015, VCA and the University of Melbourne.