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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: 40

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…

A Seventh Man at Future Flares

Professor of Theatre, Michael Pinchbeck, recently led an immersive performance together with Ollie Smith as part of Future Flares Festival. The performance, A Seventh Man, was inspired by the highly influential 1975 book of the same name about migration by…

Castlevania: Nocturne

Lecturer in Scriptwriting and member of the Performance Research Group, Zodwa Nyoni, has been working as a writer on the new season of Castlevania: Nocturne for Netflix. The legendary Alucard, Richter Belmont, and his band of vampire hunters are in…

Deluge at Soho Theatre

One of our members Andrea Maciel is taking a show she’s directed to Soho Theatre on Tuesday 18 February. Deluge – a one woman show by Gabriela Flarys. In the wake of a relationship, a woman tries to contain the…

Miss Brexit

Director and senior lecturer, Amaia Mugica, has secured Arts Council England funding to redevelop the award-winning play Miss Brexit, scheduling a new run in Manchester. Co-directed by Amaia Mugica and Alejandro Postigo, this satire explores migrant identity in post-Brexit Britain…

The Stage Top 50 Shows

Our recent collaboration with Big Telly Theatre in Northern Ireland and colleagues at the School of Digital Art has been recognised by The Stage. Granny Jackson’s Dead, an immersive performance that intertwines traditional Irish wake customs with advanced technology, has…