Disrupting the hierarchy of knowledge production: the case of documenting social theatre in Palestine (2021)

Article for Studies in Theatre & Performance that calls for more activist-researchers in social theatre, and for our work to be more aligned with/serving the communities, activists and artists we study.

When theatre can wait: the ambiguity of silence in activist theatre (2022)

Written for the Journal Performance Research.
I ask when, if at all, theatre should be silent, specifically within the activist initiatives. In the midst of protest movements, what is the significance of socially engaged theatre practice that is still: is it a reflective pause, an opportunity to (re)consider activist strategies, to collectively listen and gather strength? ​

Performing Solidarities: the 'with' (2024)

A co-edited special edition for Ride: The Journal of Applied Theatre with Kirsten Sadeghi-Yekta.
We ask what the role of theatre academics and practitioners are, in solidarity. Despite its wide use in public rhetoric, what does a practice of solidarity look like, who is its audience, and what limitations does its performance reveal?​

Book: 
Care Aesthetics & the arts
​(forthcoming)

Co-edited with James Thompson and Kate Maguire-Rosier
Published by Routledge
​Available from Fall 2025

An Ode to Playgrounds: on care, unruliness, and the art of playgroundology
(forthcoming)

Book chapter in Care Aesthetics & the Arts (forthcoming), that looks at the spatial design of playground and play practices to ask what would happen if playgrounds were designed through a process of care and attention to the players. It includes a brief history of the suppression of the young body through the changing trends in playground designs throughout the 20th century.

Essay: '100 Performances I don’t have time to do’ 
​(forthcoming)

Book:
Radical Play: spontaneous, collective joys (working title)
​(forthcoming)
​An essay written with Adelina Ong, Sophie Dixon, Susannah Henry and Hannah Rowlands, listing all the creative productions that are creatively left hanging due to parenting.
 Imagine Theatres, Special Issue 2025 ‘On Scale’ (forthcoming)
This book (publisher: Manchester University Press) is a call to take the power of play more seriously. It repositions the theory and practice of play among adults in performance studies, specifically in socially-engaged theatre. Grounded in an interdisciplinary study of play through anthropology, human geography, and activist and artistic practices, it explores how players of all ages can disrupt social and institutional systems of hierarchy and discipline, and reveals a riskier side of play - disobedient, wild, and threateningly uncontrolled. 

Report:
Understanding the impact of artistic creativity as a tool for social change (In Place of War) (2020)
This was a co-written report for an arts organisation working in zones of armed conflict and political violence, on the socio-economic impact of their work. It was funded by UKRI.
To read a summary, you can go to this page.