My most recent teaching role was as School Interdisciplinary Unit Coordinator in the School of Literature, Arts and Media at the University of Sydney, responsible for facilitating workshops in senior project-based interdisciplinary units of study. I have also taught in the USyd Department of Theatre and Performance Studies, the Department of Writing Studies, and the Department of Classics and Ancient History. Between 2017 and 2022 I taught undergraduate courses on Shakespeare in rehearsal and performance; commedia dell'arte and flexible performance; Brechtian dramaturgy;  performance analysis; site-specific performance; ancient tragedy; ancient comedy; and rhetoric for essay writing. At UNSW I undertook some sessional lecturing in a course on rhetoric, speech and communication in late 2019 and early 2020.

From 2012 to 2017 I was employed at the National Institute of Dramatic Art, Kensington. From 2015 I held the position of  Associate Lecturer and Course Convener in Performance Practices. This involved teaching across several courses at undergraduate and postgraduate level, as well as curriculum development and design, management of casual staff, and departmental administration. These courses covered Western theatre history; comic, tragic and Modernist dramatic forms;  Australian film and theatre history;  the theory and practice of artistic collaboration; the history of ideas; art history; rhetoric theory and practice;  and numerous other subjects.

Teaching prior to 2012 included casual and part-time work at Western Sydney University and Sydney University.

If the techniques I use in lectures and tutorials can be summarised, they revolve around encouraging valuable general skills in students: curiosity;  an openness to new ideas, facts and approaches; critical thinking about one’s own practice and the practices of others; a willingness to ask questions and pursue answers independently. These techniques and intentions have engendered a particular idiosyncratic teaching style: conversational, respectful of students, friendly but not over-familiar, authoritative about content but not authoritarian, honest about the gaps in my own knowledge and understanding. I strive to communicate my own enthusiasm about a diverse range of ideas, artistic styles and performance practices to students in ways that they find illustrative, demonstrative, and inspiring. 

Areas of particular teaching expertise include:

  • Classical Greek and Roman drama, theatre and performance

  • Commedia dell’Arte history, theory, and practice

  • Shakespearean dramaturgy and performance

  • Medieval theatre and performance

  • Classical, medieval and Renaissance rhetorical theory and practice

  • Australian theatre history and contemporary performance

  • Western twentieth-century theatre history

  • Performance and script analysis

  • Dramaturgy theory and practice

  • Collaborative theatre-making practice, particularly involving music

  • Intercultural/ intracultural performance-making in theory and practice


I also teach ukulele.