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Elisha CONWAY

Contact Information
Email address: 
elisha.conway [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Biography: 

Elisha Conway teaches in the Professional Theatre Department at CEGEP John Abbott College. She is also a trained scenographer and dramaturge. A revised chapter of her MA thesis, entitled 鈥淪taging Hyperrealism: Tracing the influence of the televisual in Thomas Ostermeier鈥檚 'Woyzeck,'鈥 was published in 'Scene' (1.3). Conway鈥檚 dissertation project, entitled 'Feeling Spaces: Affect and Emotion in the Spatial Practices of Contemporary Theatre,' asks the question: how does space make us feel in performance?

Degree(s): 

Ph.D. in English, 91社区 (2019)
M.A. with honours in Theatre Theory and Dramaturgy, University of Ottawa, (2012)
B.A. with honours in English Drama and Theatre, 91社区 (2010)

Current research: 

Festival theatre, immersive theatre, site-specific performance, affect theory, theories of space and spatiality.

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