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David Grant

Mr David Grant

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Interests

 

I have a strong interest in all aspects of the arts, and particularly in community-based arts. I regularly deliver workshops for local youth theatres, and was a member of the Board of Youth Action for more than 10 years, and the Ulster Association for Youth Drama for six years, being its first Chair in 2001.

I was a Board Member and Honorary treasurer for the major event Land of the Giants to be performed in Belfast in June 2012 as part of the Cultural Olympiad.

Other

Invited by the Peres Peace Institute to give drama workshops for Israeli and Palestinian school teachers, Jerusalem, October 2005

Research Statement

Having entered the Academy from a career in professional theatre practice, it was natural that my research should continue to be practice-led. In recent years I have established a particular profile in Applied Drama with work nationally and internationally in prisons, the health sector and with peace and reconciliation programmes. Notable international examples include Image Theatre workshops in Haifa and Sarajevo. To simplify the evidential difficulties of returning practice-as-research I have tended where possible to publish articles arising from my practice, but it is important to emphasise the main site of new knowledge continues to be in the practice itself - e.g. the prison play, Pipe Dreams which informed a peer-reviewed article in Performance Research (2012), the workshops with older people with dementia which informed a peer-reviewed article in the Journal of Applied Arts and Health (2011), and a full production of Translations by Brian Friel which informed a peer-reviewed article in Studies in Theatre and Performance (2011). I also continue to publish in more traditional historigraphical contexts.

Teaching

I have taught both undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Applied Drama, Theory and Practice and Acting and Directing, Arts Management and Policy.

Queen's Teaching Award, 2005

Queen's nominee for National Teaching Fellowship, 2006 and 2008

Student Nominated Teaching Award, 2013

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Latest contribution to conference papers

ID: 24904

 

 

·         1991 Tanglestour

 

·         1991 Donny Boy, by Robin Glendinning (Tinderbox TC at the Old Museum and Dublin Theatre Festival)

 

·         1990 The Suicideby Nicholai Erdman (Dublin Youth Theatre at Project Arts Centre) 

 

·         1990 Tangles(Wet Paint Arts, Dublin at the Project Arts Centre)

 

·         1989  The Wakeadapted from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake (Dublin Theatre Festival)

 

·         1989 Facets of Eveby Dario Fo and Franca Rame (Dublin Theatre Festival)

 

·         1989  Now that's What I Call Gore(Ulster Youth Theatre at the Olivier Theatre)

 

·         1988 Stoneby Edward Bond (Tinderbox TC at Group Theatre, Belfast)

 

·         1988 Who Fears to Speakby John Gray (Linen Hall Library)

 

·         1988 The Hobbit, adapted from the novel by JRR Tolkien (Fringe Benefits TC at Rupert Stanley College)

 

·         1988 The Dumb Waiter and One for the Road by Harold Pinter (Theatre 101 at the Old Museum)

 

·         1987 Those Three Days(Saint Peter's Cathedral, Belfast - Asst. Director))

 

·         1987 The Trialby Steven Berkoff after Franz Kafka (Fringe Benefits TC at Rupert Stanley College)

 

·         1987 Romeo and Julietby William Shakespeare (Ulster Youth Theatre at the Arts Theatre, Belfast)

 

·         1986 Ballboys by David Edgar (Hourglass TC at Arts Theatre, Belfast)

 

·         1986 The Comedy of Errorsby William Shakespeare (Lyric Theatre, Belfast - Asst. Director)

 

·         1986 Measure for Measureby William Shakespeare (Fringe Benefits TC at Crescent Arts Centre)

 

·         1986 Facets of Eveby Dario Fo and Franca Rame (Hourglass TC at the Arts Theatre, Belfast)

 

·         1985 The Suicideby Nicholai Erdman (Fringe Benefits TC at Crescent Arts Centre)

 

·         1985 The Doctor and the Devilsby Dylan Thomas (Craigavon Youth Drama)

 

·         1984 Dr Faustusby Christopher Marlowe (Fringe Benefits TV at Crescent Arts Centre)

 

·         1983 Winners by Brian Friel (Fringe Benefits TC at Crescent Arts Centre)

 

·         1981 Across the Roaring Hill  (Edinburgh Fringe Festival)

 

·         1979 The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde (Group Theatre, Belfast)