Dr. Hanna Slättne is an award-winning dramaturg with a 25-year long career of exploring storytelling in performance with writers, directors and choreographers across new writing, dance and XR and hybrid environment. Her PhD, based at SARC focussed on writing for the body in immersive audio. Her own current practice builds on this work creating audio work that play with story, structure, and the environment.

She is an experienced lecturer having taught playwriting and dramaturgy at Goldsmiths University, QUB and ATU Sligo. She is a facilitator of inter-disciplinary and international artists residencies including the SPACE Programs with Performance Corporation, LittleTinySpace with Anna Newell Theatre Adventures and The International Dramaturgy Lab 2021 connecting 90 dramaturgs across the globe.

In 2016 she received the Kenneth Tynan Award for Excellence in Dramaturgy and in 2017 an Elliot Hayes Award special commendation, for her work on the immersive audio play Reassembled Slightly Askew by Shannon Yee.

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