Baz Kershaw

Baz Kershaw was a Professor in Theatre and Performance Studies at Warwick and formerly Chair of Drama at the University of Bristol, and Director of the five-year research project PARIP (Practice as Research in Performance). He trained and worked as a design engineer before reading English and Philosophy at Manchester University and holds higher degrees from the Universities of Hawaii and Exeter.

He has extensive experience as a director and writer in experimental, radical and community-based theatre, including productions at the legendary Drury Lane Arts Lab in London. More recently he has mounted site-specific productions on the Bristol heritage ship, the SS Great Britain.

He has published many articles in international journals, and is the author of The Politics of Performance (Routledge 1992) and The Radical in Performance (Routledge 1999), and editor of The Cambridge History of British Theatre, Vol 3 – Since 1895 (2004). His current research includes investigation of the natures of performance ecologies.