Theatre and Democracy
Av Petro Janse Van Vuuren, Bjørn Rasmussen og Ayanda Khala
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Mandela-Rhodes Scholar Ayanda Khala is a Performance Studies lecturer and doctoral researcher at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) where she also serves as Golden Key International Honours Society chapter co-Advisor and executive member of the university staff union. Historically, Khala’s experience in theatre education includes teaching at Wits University, the University of Pretoria, Waterford Kamhlaba UWC of Southern Africa and Maru-a-Pula School in Gaborone, Botswana. She has also served as Programme Director at theatre-based NPO, Themba Interactive. Her contribution includes festival curation and participation in programmes focused on performance studies, human rights and social justice advocacy.
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Leila Henriques is a theatre practitioner. She has worked as an actor and director in different theatres across South Africa. Her main interest is in collaborative forms of theatre-making. She has written The World in an Orange, a book that explores the directing methods of Barney Simon. Leila has taught at many different institutions, including the Market Theatre Laboratory, AFDA and the University of the Witwatersrand, both in the Drama School and at Drama for Life.
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Kamogelo Molobye is a lecturer and PhD candidate with the University of the Witwatersrand Theatre and Performance Department, specializing in Movement Studies, Physical Theatre and Choreographic Practices. He was a recipient of the Institute for Creative Arts (ICA) Live Art Fellowship 2017, a resident choreographer for the Staatstheatre Brunswick Festival 2018, and a resident choreographer for the Goethe-Institut of Namibia’s “Museum Conversations” 2019.
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Kathy Barolsky is a drama and movement therapist, applied theatre practitioner and accredited Playback Theatre trainer. She founded Drama for Life Playback Theatre in 2008. Kathy is currently a PhD candidate as part of the Building Democracy through Theatre project at Norwegian University of Science and Technology, in Trondheim, Norway.
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Muneeb Ur Rehman is an applied theatre practitioner, educator, actor, voice over artist, improvisation coach and occasional stand-up comedian from Pakistan, practising with hybrid performance methods in education, community development and organizational growth. He set up Pakistan’s first-ever theatre department in a secondary school in Lyari, Karachi, in 2016–17, authoring a Training Manual for drama teaching. Using theatre as a development tool, he has conducted workshops at various international forums including SDEA, Singapore, “Performing the World”, New York and PPLG, Thessaloniki. In 2019, he conducted teacher training at Katmandu University and improvisation workshops for theatre artists in Nepal.
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Cheraé Halley is an actress, theatre-maker, lecturer and applied theatre facilitator. She is an accredited trainer for the Playback Theatre short courses accredited by University of the Witwatersrand. Cheraé coordinates and lectures the Master of Arts in Applied Drama courses under the Department of Drama for Life, University of the Witwatersrand.
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Kristian Nødtvedt Knudsen (PhD) is associate professor in Theatre at the Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts, University of Agder. He is chief editor of JASEd (Journal for Research in Arts and Sports Education) and his main teaching, research and developmental areas are: arts education, dramaturgy, performativity and artistic research.
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Ellen Foyn Bruun is Emeritus Professor of Drama and Theatre at Department of Art and Media Studies, NTNU Trondheim. Her research contributions cover drama and theatre education in higher education, voicework, dramatherapy and applications of the arts in therapeutic and educational contexts.
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Nanna K. Edvardsen is a PhD-student art the Arctic Centre for Welfare and Disability Research, Faculty of Health Sciences, at the Arctic University of Norway. Her research areas are: applied theatre, disability theatre, inclusive art and educational drama.
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Cletus Moyo is a Drama Lecturer at Lupane State University in Zimbabwe and at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. He is a Canon Collins PhD scholar in Drama and Performance Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Moyo is a holder of a Master of Arts in Dramatic Art from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, which he did under the Drama for Life Scholarship. His research interests are: applieddrama, theatre and trauma, social drama and art as alternative media. Moyo is a recipient of the Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa Dissertation Completion Fellowship for 2020 – 2021, administered by the Social Science Research Council (SSRC).
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Vigdis Aune is professor emerita at the Department of Arts and Media Studies, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim. Her teaching areas are applied theatre, project-theatre and arts-based research methodology. Research fields are theatre with, by and for young people, applied theatre, documentary theatre. In the project Theater and democracy. Building democracy in post-war and post-democratic contexts, she has run a project in partnership with ISAK, a Youth culture center in Trondheim.
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Heli Aaltonen PhD is associate professor of Drama and Theatre Studies at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. She is a youth theatre researcher, performing storyteller and theatre/drama educator with a specialization in applied theatre practices, practice as research method, and encounters between ecology and performative art forms. She leads a research project – Performing Arts and Sustainability – in her department. She was a co-editor and writer in the last Nordic Drama magazine (2/2020), which had a focus on sustainability.
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Rikke Gürgens Gjærum is professor of Applied Theatre at the Arctic University of Norway; leader of Arctic Centre for Welfare and Disability research, Faculty of Health Sciences, Arctic University of Norway; and professor of Drama and Theatre studies, Faculty of Technology, Art & Design, Oslo Metropolitan University. Research areas: applied theatre, disability theatre, inclusive art, educational drama, marginalization and arts & health.
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Petro Janse Van Vuuren is the Head of Department of Drama for Life at the University of the Witwatersrand School of Arts, Johannesburg, where she lectures, researches, supervises and practises in the field of Applied Drama and Theatre. She is co-leader of the teaching and research exchange project “Building democracy through theatre” and the winner of the 2019 Wits university Faculty of Humanities and Vice Chancellor’s awards for teaching and learning.
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Bjørn Rasmussen is professor in Drama/theatre at Norwegian University of Science and Technology and is an instigator and co-leader of the project “Building democracy through theatre”. Through his teaching, supervision and research within applied theatre and drama education, he has contributed internationally for nearly 30 years.
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Courtney Helen Grile is a theatre artist and scholar who has worked in the United States and Ireland as a facilitator, teaching artist, administrator, adjunct instructor, performer, and director. She is currently a PhD Candidate at Trinity College Dublin and Early Career Researcher in the Trinity Long Room Hub. Her research looks at the intersection of applied drama and democracy, with a focus on deliberative democratic practices.