Gill Foster

Professor Gill Foster is Head of Performance Arts at London South Bank University. Gill’s work focuses on actor training using performative pedagogies and creative rehearsal processes to develop students’ agency and socio-cultural resilience. Gill combines teaching with her own artistic practice as a director and dramaturg and has created a wide range of inclusive, interdisciplinary projects operating at the intersection of actor training and professional theatre. She has developed numerous innovative partnerships with acting training institutions, theatres, and industry professionals both nationally and internationally, and has worked in China, Europe, the US and in Canada. In 2018, she was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship in recognition of her work in developing transformative outcomes for students. In 2020 she was short-listed for the Times Higher Education ‘Most Innovative Teacher’ Award and in 2021 awarded the Music and Drama Education Drama Inspiration Award for an academic practitioner who has ‘made or continues to make a real and significant difference to the lives of their students’.