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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

Queer Up North

A new project has been awarded Heritage Lottery Funding to collect, preserve and celebrate Queer Up North Aiming to develop, build and curate one of the UK’s most significant archives of historical LGBTQIA+ materials focussing on the QUN Festivals between1992-2002…

Future Flares Festival 2025

Future Flares Festival returns once again, with a curated programme of innovative politically engaged performances, plus related talks and workshops. This year’s line-up will feature work from radical performance makers including ‘Get Off’, an ‘in yer face’ look at desire by Katy…

Call for Papers: On Scores

Members of the Performance Research Group are involved in editing an issue of Performance Research ‘On Scores’ following our conference on the same theme at HOME, Scoring Performance, Performing Scores, in July 2023. This issue will be co-edited by Kevin Egan, Michael Pinchbeck,…

VANYA in New York

Direct from a sold-out run in London, Andrew Scott (Ripley, All of Us Strangers) brings to life multiple characters in Tony Award® winner (and Performance Research Group member) Simon Stephens’ (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time) radical new version…

NWCDTP funded studentships

The Dance, Drama and Performing Arts Pathway of the Northwest Consortium Doctoral Training Partnership (NWCDTP) is pleased to invite applications from prospective PhD candidates for AHRC-funded studentships for September 2025 entry. More information here. NWCDTP PARTNERS Lancaster UniversityManchester Metropolitan UniversityUniversity…

Our Digital Afterlives

Josh Edelman and Michael Pinchbeck are presenting as part of ESRC Festival at HOME on Wednesday 5 November with Big Telly Theatre and SODA. They will present on Granny Jackson’s Dead, an immersive performance and research project about technology, memory…

QuietManDave Prize

The QuietManDave Prize celebrates short-form writing and the life of someone who loved to experience new places, art and events and write about them. The Prize offers awards of £1,000* for Flash Fiction and £1,000* Flash Non-Fiction as well as…

Granny Jackson’s Dead

Josh Edelman and Michael Pinchbeck have been working with Big Telly Theatre Company and SODA on a new immersive performance, Granny Jackson’s Dead. The piece explores how tradition, research and cutting-edge technology can came together to take the audience to a…