University of Glasgow

Play/writing histories: Navigating the Personal, Public & Institutional stories of Theatre Space. An architextual study of the Citizens Theatre

Academic History:

2012 - 2013 MSc (Distinction) Writing for Theatre & Performance (University of Edinburgh)

2005 - 2009 M.A. (Hons) 2.1 Classics & English Literature (University of Glasgow)

Supervisors:

Professor Dee Heddon

Dr Victoria Price

Research Interests:

• Playwriting
• Historiography
• Architecture
• Hidden/marginalised histories
• Practice as research
• Site-specific theatre
• Theatre & memory
• auto/biographical theatre
• Citizens Theatre

Previous Research Projects:

A Short History of the Close Theatre Club (Citizens Theatre)

A Day in the Death of Joe Egg - Original Production (Citizens Theatre)

Scholarships:

AHRC DTP Scholarship

Awards:

David MacLennan Award 2013

New Playwrights Award 2014

Contact Details:

Address: Theatre, Film & Television, Gilmorehill Centre, 9 University Avenue, Glasgow G12 8QQ

Work Tel No: 07857 119202

Email: j.knotts.1@research.gla.ac.uk

First published: 14 November 2016