Dr Janet Gibson is a theatre and performance studies scholar interested in the theatre of real people and new Australian work, especially that dealing with ageing and dementia and LGBTQI+ issues. Her book titled 'Dementia, Narrative and Performance: Staging Reality, Reimagining Identities' was published in 2020 by Palgrave Macmillan. She has taught media and communication across various tertiary education institutions for over 25 years; she managed a Communication program at a university college in Sydney for 15 years. She is a trained actor ( Uta Hagen, HB Studios, New York). She has worked in fringe theatre in New York and Sydney, including working in the first Tectonic Theater Project production of 'Women in Beckett' at Theater for the New City New York under the direction of Moisés Kaufman ( of 'The Laramie Project').
Experience
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2023–presentTutor in Creative Arts, Macquarie University Sydney
Education
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2016Macquarie University Sydney, PhD
Publications
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2022The Bucket List and More: Exploring Care Practices in an Australian Aged Care Home Through a "Narra-theatrical" Lens, Contemporary Narratives of Ageing, Illness,Care, eds Katsura Sako and Sarah Falcus
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2020Dementia, Narrative and Performance: Staging Reality, Reimagining Identities,
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2018‘Talking back, talking out, talking otherwise’: dementia, access and autobiographical performance, Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance
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2011Saying it right: Creating ethical verbatim theatre, NEO: journal for higher degree research students in the social sciences and humanities
Professional Memberships
- ADSA
- IFTR
- ENAS
- Article Feed
- ORCID
- Joined
