Professor George Rodosthenous

Profile

I am Professor of Theatre Directing and Deputy Head of School at the School of Performance and Cultural Industries of the University of Leeds. I have been the Director of Enterprise and Knowledge Transfer for the School from 2009-2012. I am the Artistic Director of the theatre company Altitude North and also have worked as a freelance director/composer for the theatre. My research interests are the body in performance, refining improvisational techniques and compositional practices for performance, devising pieces with live musical soundscapes as interdisciplinary process, updating Greek Tragedy and The British Musical.

Responsibilities

• Deputy Head of School
• Programme Leader for BA(Hons) Theatre and Performance

Research interests

• Directing

• Theatre as voyeurism

• The Body in Performance

• Contemporary Approaches to Greek Tragedy

• Devised pieces with live musical soundscape(s) as interdisciplinary process: the interfaces between Music, Movement and Text

• Refining improvisational techniques and compositional practices for Performance

• Musicals of the 21st Century

• Contemporary British Drama since the 1990s

<h4>Research projects</h4> <p>Any research projects I'm currently working on will be listed below. Our list of all <a href="https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/dir/research-projects">research projects</a> allows you to view and search the full list of projects in the faculty.</p>

Research groups and institutes

• Theatre at Leeds

Current postgraduate researchers

• Dionysia Bouzioti

<h4>Postgraduate research opportunities</h4> <p>We welcome enquiries from motivated and qualified applicants from all around the world who are interested in PhD study. Our <a href="https://phd.leeds.ac.uk">research opportunities</a> allow you to search for projects and scholarships.</p>