ALISON MATTHEWS
MAKER and RESEARCHER
07582 370711 aem7@aber.ac.uk alison.e.matthews@gmail.com
EDUCATION/TRAINING
PhD. Aberystwyth University (Performance Practice) expected
2014
Aberystwyth
University TFTS Doctoral Studentship Award
Aberystwyth
University AIPRS Funding Award
M.A
.Aberystwyth University (Performance Practice), Distinction 2009
B.A. Vassar College, Drama, cum
laude 2007
RADA -
Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (London) 2005
PROFESSIONAL PERFORMANCE WORK /
WRITING
Performance Studies International
#18 : Leeds June 2012
Artist
presentation: “Ten Cents a Dance”
Ennis Street Festival (Ireland), July 2012
Residency:
Teaching workshops entitled “Voice, Gesture and the Art of Storytelling”
Performance,
“The Changelings”
Mayfest Launch @ Bristol Old Vic, May 2012
Performance:
Excerpts from “Eve Speaks”
Brighton Fringe Festival May 2012
“Eve
Speaks: A Musical Cabaret”
The Basement, Brighton Supper Club, April 7 2012
Musician/Artist
Arnolfini (Bristol) : BLOP Feb. 25 2012
Artist: “Ten Cents a Dance”
Bristol Storytelling Fest @ The
Watershed, Bristol forthcoming Jan. 28 2012
Performer
and Co-writer, “The Changelings” –
traditional storytelling with live music & visuals
Aberystwyth Storytelling
Festival Dec. 3 2011
Writer
and Performer: “Eve Speaks from the
Garden of Eden: a Musical Cabaret”
The Changelings at Aberystwyth Arts
Centre, Nov. 16 2011
Performer
and Co-writer
Electric Picnic Music & Arts
Festival (Laois)
September 2011
Artist: “Ten Cents a Dance”
Green Man Festival (Brecon)
August 2011
Einstein’s Garden Artist /
Stallholder : “Ten Cents a Dance”
Laura Ashley Artist-in-Residence
Programme, AAC Gallery
Artist’s Assistant
·
Assisted
A-i-R Clare Thornton on her relational gallery project “Material Matters”
Lambert Puppet Theatre, Dublin Ireland, Nov. 2009-Sep. 2010
Puppeteer, vocalist and performer
for company of “Wanderly Wagon” and “Bosco” fame
The Very Thought of You, Jan.-March 2010
Vocalist and musical arrangement
·
Employed
by Dublin-based pianist as session solo vocalist on his debut CD, with
RTE-regular jazz bassist Dave Fleming.
EMPLOYMENT
Aberystwyth University Sep. 2011-present
Part-Time Seminar and Workshop
Tutor
· Lead
regular workshops on theatre practice for second-year students. Module entitled
Key Theatre Practices focuses on
seminal theatre practitioners, workshops blend seminar discussion, writing
exercises and practical explorations to approach each practitioner’s field.
·
Lead
regular seminars for first-year students on Studying
Theatre 1 introductory module.
Seminars blend discussion, student-led presentations (responding to set
questions), and research exercises.
·
Lead
regular practical workshops for first-year students. Module entitled Text Workshop, focuses on approaches to
Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Heiner
Muller’s Hamletmachine. Workshops
include practice-based exercises encompassing voice, text, dramaturgy and
devising.
·
Lecture:
“Practice-as-Research Project Design”
·
Lecture:
“Intercultural Theatre: (Eugenio Barba and ethnoscenologie)”
·
MA
seminar: “Performance Analysis”
·
Voice-Over Dec. 2010-present
·
Freelance
voice-over artist for e-learning industry, past work includes Intel and
Citibank
Arts Council England
Artist Disability Support /
Transcriber June 2011
·
Assisted
physically-impaired artist in her project application by writing and general
computer support
New York Theater Workshop, New York, NY
Literary Assistant
April-August 2009
· Read and solicited new scripts
from playwrights worldwide for off-Broadway theater
· Reported on script submissions
to Literary Associate.
· Helped facilitate new play
readings for downtown NYC arts community.
· Organized and maintained a
digital database of existing and incoming scripts.
Intern Summers
’04-‘06
· Performed
administrative and production tasks for the same organization.
PROFESSIONAL PUBLICATIONS
“Exchange”: in Vaasa in Luck
exhibition catalogue. Exhibit by Esther Pilkington/random-people. (Vaasa, Finland, Dec.
2011)
“Pre-Expressivity.”
“Ethnoscenology.” Key Concepts in Performance
Studies (ed.
Gabrielle Cody). London: Routledge, forthcoming 2012.
AWARDS
TFTS Doctoral Studentship (Aberystwyth University)
Aberystwyth International
Postgraduate Research Scholarship (Aberystwyth University)
Wales Art International
Recipient, Artist Travel Grant,
Venice Biennale 2011
·
Received
travel grant as Wales-based artist to attend and write about connections
between visual arts and performance fields at Venice Biennale 2011
Maguire Fellowship for Graduate
Study Abroad (from Vassar College, NY)
Beatrice Daw Brown Poetry Prize
for Excellence (from Vassar College, NY)
Award of Excellence for Independent
Performance Projects: 99 Fulton Avenue and
128 Raymond Avenue (from Vassar
College, NY)
