Oddey, Alison

ALISON ODDEY, performer, writer, broadcaster and teacher, is Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies at Loughborough University, UK. She was appointed Chair in Contemporary Performance in 2000, and her publications include Devising Theatre (Routledge, 1994) and Performing Women (first edition published 1999) as well as a forthcoming book, Shifting Directions: A New Kind of Theatre-Making in the Twenty-First Century (MUP, 2005). Her research focuses on contemporary experimental performance, exploring cross-art forms, creation and collaboration in relation to the notion of directing such work in