Theatre Research International is pleased to introduce the new editorial team:
Lisa Fitzpatrick is Senior Lecturer in Drama at Ulster University in Derry. She is the author of Rape on the Contemporary Stage (2018), and her recent edited books include The Theatre of Deirdre Kinahan (with Maria Kurdi; Lang, 2022) and Plays by Women in Ireland 1926-1933: Feminist Theatres of Freedom and Resistance (with Shonagh Hill; Methuen, 2022). Her current work on gender-based violence in conflict and post-conflict societies includes a collaboration with Kabosh Theatre Company, Belfast, on the creation of a new play The Shedding of Skin. She is co-convenor of the Feminist Working Group at the International Federation for Theatre Research.
Dr. Ameet Parameswaran is currently Assistant Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow (2022-23). Parameswaran’s main areas of interest are political theatre and performance, neoliberalism and performance, region studies, theatrical/performance exchanges, and performance theory. He has published in journals including Performance Research, TDR: The Drama Review, Theatre Research International, Studies in Theatre and Performance. His publications include the monograph, Performance and the Political: Power and Pleasure in Contemporary Kerala (Orient Blackswan, 2017), and the special issue ‘Worksites of the Left’ co-edited with Silvija Jestrovic for the journal Studies in Theatre and Performance, Cambridge, 2019.
David Rodríguez-Solás is Professor of Contemporary Spanish Theater and Performance at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His areas of research include documentary theatre, political performance, memory studies, and Iberian and Latin American theater. Rodríguez-Solás’s latest book is Performing the Transition to Democracy. Theater and Performance in 1970s Spain (Routledge, 2025). He is author of Teatros nacionales republicanos: la Segunda República y el teatro clásico español (Iberoamericana-Vervuert, 2014). He has edited and co-edited five volumes. He held visiting positions at both US and Canadian universities and was a fellow at the Madrid Institute for Advanced Study.
Marcus Tan is Associate Professor of Drama at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University Singapore. His main research areas are in intercultural theatre, performance soundscapes and acoustemologies, music theatre and virtual performativities. In these areas, he has published Acoustic Interculturalism: Listening to Performance (Palgrave, 2012), Theatrimusicality: Spectauralising Performance (Palgrave, forthcoming), Music Theatre and Politics: Performing Memory, Reclaiming Margins (OUP, forthcoming), Performing Southeast Asia: Performance, Politics and the Contemporary (Palgrave, 2020). He has also published book chapters and articles in leading journals such as The Drama Review, Theatre Research International and Contemporary Theatre Review and Performance Research. Marcus is currently the Assistant Editor of Theatre Research International and Secretary-General of the International Federation for Theatre Research, and is on the advisory board of Methuen Drama Agitations: Text, Politics and Performances. He is also a consultant with the National Archives of Singapore on SoundscapeSG, a soundmap and sound archive of Singapore, and collaborates with Singapore’s Ministry of Education on drama research and syllabi for schools.
We thank the outgoing editors for all the time and care they put into TRI.