With its strong employability focus, the course prepares you for many careers in theatre and the arts. You will be partly taught at the Old Fire Station, a professional theatre in the centre of Oxford. This enables you to develop hands-on, practice-based skills in all aspects of theatre production both on and off the stage.
Drama, Theatre and Acting
Dr Carina Bartleet
Programme Lead in Drama, Theatre and Acting; MA Creative Writing; Communication, Media and Culture
Carina Bartleet works on modern and contemporary theatre and drama in the UK and the rest of Europe. She has particular research interests in the following areas:
- women writing for the theatre
- theatre, science and medicine
- gender and performance
- drama, theatre and intertextuality.
Carina has worked with students on a wide range of productions ranging from Kane’s 4: 48 Psychosis to Ibsen and adaptations of Pinter, Ionesco and Angela Carter as well as on devised pieces. Before coming to Oxford Brookes, Carina worked at the University of Reading where she taught a wide range of theatre and drama courses from renaissance drama to contemporary British theatre. She is excited by the prospect of working on a range of Brookes’ drama and performance modules that mix theory, text and practical elements of theatre.
Areas of expertise
- Theatre and science
- Gender and performance (feminist and LGBTQ theatre)
- Contemporary theatre writing
Dr Laura Higgins
Senior Lecturer in Modern & Contemporary Drama
Laura did a BEd Hons in Drama at Saint Luke’s College (University of Exeter) and an MA in Theatre: Text and Production at the University of East Anglia. She completed her PhD at Royal Holloway University of London.
Before joining the Drama team at Oxford Brookes in 2013, Laura worked for seven years as an Associate Lecturer and Teaching Fellow in the Department of Drama and Theatre at Royal Holloway University of London. She has also taught courses in Shakespeare: Text and Performance in the Drama Department of Kingston University and at Arcadia University, London.
Dr Eleanor Lowe
Programme Lead for English Literature and Creative Writing (MA, Greece)
I am Programme Lead for undergraduate and MA English Literature, as well as the MA in Creative Writing delivered in Greece. I am a Principal Lecturer in Drama teaching on both the English Literature and Drama, Theatre and Acting programmes, with research expertise in early modern drama, editing and material culture.
Ms Abi Lawrence
Drama Technician, Associate Lecturer
I am the Drama Technician, supporting student productions. I have previously worked in the UK theatre industry as a lighting and sound operator, lighting designer, and as a stage manager. In addition, I work as an Associate Lecturer teaching lighting, sound, and stage management.