Associate ProfessorIan Maxwell

Current Teaching

• PRFM 1601 The work of the Director
• PRFM 1602 Dangerous Performances
• PRFM 2604 Sociology of Theatre
• PRFM 2606 Ritual, Play and Performance
• PRFM4000/PRFM 5901 Critical Theory and Performance

Research Supervision

Completed HDR supervisions

• Aine de Paor, 2022, "Staging Ireland Down Under" (PhD)
• Melissa Fenton, 2022, "Behind the Red Curtain: An Ethnographic Exploration of the Global Music Theatre Industry as a Workplace" (PhD)
• Garry Seabrook, 2021, "The Complementarity of Being" (PhD)
• Carla Lever, 2018, "Over the Rainbow? Performing Contemporary South Africa"
• Terence Crawford, 2015, "Real Human in this Fantastical World-Political, Artistic and Fictive Concerns of Actors in Rehearsal: An Ethnography"
• Rosie Findlay, 2014, "O hai guyz: Between personal style bloggers, their readers, and modern fashion"
• Micaela Nathan, 2014, "Being in music: Music performance dysfunction through guided imagery and music"
• Kath Bicknell, 2012, "Embodying biking: Sport as live(d) Events"
• Robin Dixon, 2010, "Haec urbs Roma est, ubi haec agitur fabula: Place, Space and Spatial Dramaturgy in the Plautien Theatre"
• Nicholas Hope, 2010, "Inner Place: The Impact of Embodied Landscape on Actor Decisions in Rehearsal: An Actor's Perspective"
• Daniel Johnston, 2008, "Active Metaphysics: Phenomenological Readings of Acting" (PhD)
• Yana Taylor, 2007, "Doctors of Presence: Tadashi Suzuki's Training Methods in Sydney Contemporary Performance"
• Pauline Manley, 2007, "Opening the Pod: Involution and Dehiscence in Contemporary Dance"
• Stuart Grant, 2007, "Gathering to Witness"
• Paul Moore, 2005, "Longing to Belong: Trained Actors' Attempts to Enter the Profession"
• Mark Seton, 2004, "Forming (In)Vulnerable Bodies: Intercorporeal Experiences in Actor Training in Australia"
• Glen McGillivray, 2004, "Theatricality: A Critical Genealogy"

Completed DArts supervision

• Lee, Chung Chuyen, 2020, "Theatre Directing as Action Research: Testing the Action Research Model" (DArts)

Completed MA(Research) supervisions

• Deanna Ezrol-Kennedy 2021 "Continental Drift: Australian Actors and their pursuit of Hollywood"
• Harrison Werlemann-Godfrey, 2019, "History. Authenticity andt he Experiemental: An Ethnography of the Historically Informed Performance Movement in Sydney, Australia 206-2017" (M.Res)
• Jeremy Johnson, 2018, "The Shock of Presence Peter Brook & Jerzy Grotowski - The Reinvention of Australian Theatre"
• Johanne Donovan, 2014, "Hardcore Makes Me Sick; Truth, Youth and Unity in Australian Hardcore Punk Subculture"
• Aine De Paor, 2012, "Opunk'sky Theatre Company and their contribution to the Sydney Theatre Scene in the 1990s"
• Jeff Stewart, 2007, "Sentiment and the Possibility of Love: Essays from Home" (M.Arts dissertation)