Talk:John Freeman

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John Freeman is Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Drama and Senior Tutor for the School of Arts at Brunel University, London. He has written extensively on contemporary postmodern performance and pedagogical initiatives in numerous academic journals and newspapers, as well as participating in conferences worldwide.

John Freeman's background in performance includes the world premiere of Edward Bond's 'Jackets' and Insomniac's award-winning 'Clare de Luz'. He has created several highly acclaimed and original performance projects, including 'Love Lessons', 'Ephemera', 'Still', 'At Last Sight', 'Cabin Fever' and 'Forever Elsewhere'. His first book, 'Tracing the Footprints' (UPA 2003) is a documentation of the processes involved in creating original performance work; his second, 'New Performance/New Writing' (Palgrave 2007) explores texts and contexts for postmodern performance at a time when conventional ideas of playwriting are being re-imagined by solo performance works and varying forms of textual harrassment.

The founding editor of 'Performance Practice', Freeman's fusing of strategies for contemporary performance and experimental approaches to Higher Education practice resulted in invitations to join the editorial boards of UK and US theatre journals in addition to residencies, workshops, and writing and directing commissions.

John Freeman can be contacted at john.freeman@brunel.ac.uk