Doctor Glen McGillivray
Biography
Glen McGillivray graduated with honours in theatre direction from the Flinders' University Drama Centre and has worked professionally in theatre for over fifteen years. He was the Artistic Director of Theatre of Desire, a contemporary performance company producing original material, which included: Rites of Memory and Desire (1993-1996), The Frankenstein Twist (1995) and Customs (1998), which the company commissioned from Perth-based writer Josephine Wilson. Glen has also been the Artistic Director of ATYP, an Associate Director and dramaturg for the State Theatre Company of South Australia and has worked extensively as a freelance director.
In addition to his work as a director, Glen has had a long association with the development of new writing for the theatre. In 2002, he was the Australia Council funded dramaturg at the Banff PlayRites colony in Alberta, Canada and he worked as a script assessor for the Australian National Playwrights' Centre. Glen has also taught acting at the Actors' Centre Australia and run classes for the NIDA open program, the NSW Conservatorium of Music and the Actors' College of Theatre and Television.
Areas of Research / Teaching Expertise
Learning and Teaching Interests
Theatre and performance history
Acting, directing and dramaturgy
History of ideas
Research Interests
Theatricality and theatrical metaphor
20th Century European theatre
Acting, directing and dramaturgy
Grants
2010 AusStage Phase 4: Harnessing collective intelligence and pioneering new visual methodologies for innovative research into Australian live performance [via Flinders Uni] ARC LIEF
2007-2008 AusStage: Gateway to Australian live performance, phase 3 - enhancing collaborative research methodologies through digital networking technologies [via Flinders University SA] ARC LIEF
2007 Virtual and Interactive Performance Research Environment (VIPRE) UWS
Publications
Refereed Articles
"The Discursive Formation of Theatricality as a Critical Concept", Metaphorik de., vol 17, December 2009, 101-114 Austage:e-Research in the Performing Arts, Australasian Drama Studies, vol 54, 2009, 178-194 (with J Bollen, N Harvey and J Holledge
"The Picturesque World Stage", Performance Research: On Appearance Vol. 13 No. 4 2008
"Globing the Globe: September 11 and Theatrical Metaphor", Theory and Event Vol. 11 No. 4, 2008
"Still. Not Seen: exploring the artist's hidden archive", About Performance #8 Still/Moving: Photography and Live Performance, June 2008, 31-45
"Mis-recognised knowledges: national identity and the unreliable narrator in Jack Hibberd's A Stretch of the Imagination and Josephine Wilson's The Geography of Haunted Places", Australasian Drama Studies, Vol. 52, April 2008, 69-84
Book Chapter
"Faking truth: the 'problem' of 'theatricality'" in Ravi Chaturvedi and Brian Singleton (eds) (2005) Ethnicity and Identity: Global Performance, Rawat Publications: New Delhi: pp 117-129
Selected Creative Works
2005 Blue by PJ Williams, Director, Short and Sweet Festival, Seymour Centre, Sydney
2004 Tea by Angus Strachan, Director, Best of Short and Sweet Tour, Melbourne Arts Centre, Sydney Opera House, Parramatta Riverside Theatres (original performance as part of Short and Sweet Festival, Seymour Centre)
2002 Leda, a dance-theatre work by Kay Armstrong, Performance Dramaturg, Bondi Pavillion
1999 The White Project, devised project with Shabnam Hameed, Director/Facilitator, University of Western Sydney
1998 Customs, Josephine Wilson, Director/Dramaturg, Theatre of Desire, Sidetrack Theatre
1997 The Glasses of Hector Margolez, devised project from a concept by Chris Strickland, Director/Dramaturg, Theatre of Desire, The Performance Space
1996 Rites of Memory and Desire, devised project, Director/Dramaturg, Theatre of Desire, Adelaide Fringe Festival
1995 The Frankenstein Twist, devised project, Director/Dramaturg, Theatre of Desire, Belvoir St Upstairs
Comedy of Errors, Shakespeare, Director, Theatre of Desire, Pilgrim Theatre
1994 Salacious, Director/Dramaturg, Director, Queer Arts for Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Festival, The Performance Space
Comedy of Errors, Shakespeare, Director, Theatre of Desire, Shakespeare-by-the-Pool, Victoria Park
1993 Twelfth Night, Shakespeare, Director, Theatre of Desire, Shakespeare-by-the-Pool, Victoria Park
1992 As You Like It, Shakespeare, Director, Theatre of Desire, Shakespeare-by-the-Pool, Victoria Park
White Paper Flowers, Mary Hickson, Director/Dramaturg, Australian Theatre for Young People (ATYP), The Performance Space
1991 Frankenstein's Children, David Carlin, Director, ATYP, Parade Theatre
New Vaudeville, Ray Crowe et. Al, Director, Adelaide Festival Centre Trust
1990 'Tis Pity She's A Whore, John Ford, Director, DIY Theatre, the Red Shed
Happy Rest, Marion Hoenig, Director/Dramaturg, State Theatre Co. of South Australia
Swimmers, Nick Gill, Director/Dramaturg, AIDS Council of South Australia
To see full details of creative works go to www.ausstage.edu.au.
Conferences
2010 "The Persistent Essentialism of Theatricality", Australasian Association of Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies (ADSA), Australian National University, Canberra
2009: "Theatrum Mundi: the 'Booming' Metaphor", Australasian Association of Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies (ADSA), Edith Cowan University, Perth
2008 "The Picturesque World Stage", Australasian Association of Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies (ADSA), University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
2007 "Globing the globe: September 11 and theatrical metaphor", Australasian Association of Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies (ADSA), University of Melbourne
2006 "The Discursive Formation of Theatricality as a Critical Concept", American Comparative Literatures Association conference, Princeton University, Princeton, USA
2005 "Self Fashioning and Fashioning the Self: the Renaissance Crisis of Interiority", ADSA Conference, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga
2003 "'Theatricality': Examining the Genealogical and Discursive Issues of a Critical term", ADSA Conference, Australian Catholic University, Brisbane
"Faking truth: the 'problem' of 'theatricality'", International Federation of Theatre Research Conference (IFTR), Jaipur, India
2002 "The Emperor's New Clothes: Reinventing 'Theatricality' as 'Performance'", International Federation of Theatre Research (IFTR), University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2001 "Evoking the Theatrical Fetish: The Function of Disavowal and Fetishism in Trans-acting the 'Real' in Performance", ADSA Conference
