Catriona Fallow

I am a Senior Lecturer in Performance and Deputy Programme Leader for Performance.

I am currently a member of the Young Academy of Scotland and Associate of People’s Palace Projects (PPP), an arts and social justice charity and research centre working across the UK and Latin America. 

I joined UWS in September 2021 from Queen Mary University of London where I worked as a Lecture in Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies. Between 2017-19 I was a postdoctoral Research Fellow on the Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded project, Harold Pinter: Histories and Legacies, based at the University of Birmingham.

I undertook my BA Hons in English and Drama, MA in Theatre and Performance, and PhD - entitled Past and Present Plays: New Work at the Royal Shakespeare Company and Shakespeare’s Globe - in the School of English and Drama at Queen Mary. 

My research covers several areas, including contemporary text-based performance, theatrical institutions and company structures, and arts and health.

Much of my recent and forthcoming published work is centrally concerned with the relationships between contemporary text-based performance, the institutional contexts in which this work is developed, and the role these works and practices play in the UK’s theatre and performance ecology specifically, and how they circulate internationally.

I am currently co-editing 50 Key Theatre Companies for Routledge, a collection that provides a critical introduction to the theatrical institutions that are shaping the major aesthetic, conceptual, and political approaches to performance across the globe. 

I also work as part of an interdisciplinary research team and the Women's Health Research Network at UWS exploring the lived experiences of women with Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD) using arts-led research methods.

In both my practical and seminar-based teaching, I aim to encourage students to explore the histories and cultures of theatre and theatre-going alongside its contemporary applications and political significance, and how these have changed over time. 

I am currently part of the Supervisory team on two PhD projects that explore the intersectional feminist Scottish theatre company Stellar Quines, and the experiences of mother's with PMDD respectively.

I have previously supervised MRes projects exploring: the archives and oral histories of The Avrom Greenbaum Players; contemporary weightlifting and the embodied training of Jacques Lecoq.