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Michael Pinchbeck is a Nottingham-based writer and theatre-maker. He co-founded Metro-Boulot-Dodo in 1997 after studying Theatre and Creative Writing at Lancaster University. He was commissioned by Nottingham Playhouse to write The White Album (2006), The Ashes (2011) and Bolero (2014), premiering at Nottingham Playhouse before touring Bosnia & Herzegovina and Kosovo supported by the British Council. His work has been selected four times for the British Council’s Edinburgh Showcase. In 2018, he was commissioned by New Perspectives to adapt Berger and Mohr's 1967 book, A Fortunate Man, which toured to Edinburgh, Singapore and Cologne. He has completed two sequels, A Seventh Man, supported by Arts Council England and British Council, which toured to Cologne, and Another Way of Telling, commissioned by Harrogate Theatre and supported by Manchester School of Art. He is currently making a new piece with Kevin Egan, Matchstalks Remastered, supported by Word of Warning. He has recently received commissions for immersive audio installations from HOME (Manchester), Lakeside Arts Centre (Nottingham), Nottingham Confucius Institute and S.H.E.D (Derby). Michael has an MA in Performance & Live Art from Nottingham Trent University and a PhD from Loughborough University exploring the role of the dramaturg in contemporary performance. He has written articles for Contemporary Theatre Review, Dance Theatre Journal, Studies in Theatre and Performance and Performance Research. His work features in DIY: Do It Yourself, Performing Ruins (Palgrave) and The Twenty First Century Performance Reader (Routledge). He has co-convened three academic conferences - Staging Loss: Performance as Commemoration (University of Lincoln), Where From Here: 21 Years of Third Angel (Leeds Beckett University) and Performing Scores, Scoring Performance (Manchester Met). He has co-edited Staging Loss: Performance as Commemoration (Palgrave Macmillan) with Andrew Westerside, Acts of Dramaturgy: The Shakespeare Trilogy (Intellect) and The Ravel Trilogy: Following the Score (Intellect) with Ollie Smith. He is currently working on a new book for the Intellect playtext series, Ways of Staging: The Berger & Mohr Trilogy, with Frances Babbage. He is Professor of Theatre and the Professorial Research Lead for the Art & Performance Research Hub.
  • Joined: February 27, 2024
  • Articles: 37

Postsecular Performance Network

PRG member Josh Edelman is visiting Villanova University in Philadelphia for a workshop of the Postsecular Performance Network.  He will talk about postsecular performances of pastoral care and religious community with scholars in religion, performance and politics from around the…

LIBERATION at Royal Exchange

Inspired by true events in Black British history, LIBERATION is a powerful new play from writer and PRG member Ntombizodwa Nyoni and director Monique Touko tracing the private lives of activists who fought to liberate Africa. Receiving its World Premiere…

Tessellation at Future Flares

Emerging out of a series of workshops exploring the dialogical relationship between contemporary dance technique, improvisation and creative reflection, this choreography has been created by Rachel Rimmer-Piekarczyk in collaboration with a group of participants including professional independent artists and students…

Jewish Diasporic Homeland(s)

PRG member, Josh Edelman, was invited to present on Jewish Diasporic Homeland(s) at the Berlin Center for Intellectual Discourse. This workshop focused on diaspora and homelands in Jewish settings through the works of Jewish philosophers such as Hermann Cohen, Franz Rosenzweig,…

Scheme and The Phantom

A solo story-telling show about childhood friendship and what happens when it is lost will be shown at The Unity Theatre, Liverpool, on Friday 7 March 2025. Presented by award-winning playwright and PRG member, Joe Ward Munrow (The Legend of…