Dr Bree Hadley

Bree Hadley is Senior Lecturer in Performance Studies, and Study Area Advisor for the Master of Creative Industries (Creative Production & Arts Management), in the Creative Industries Faculty at QUT. She coordinates units in applied performance, in producing, events and entrepreneurship, in arts and cultural management, and also acts as Academic Supervisor for workplace learning in Drama and Arts Management.

Hadley’s PhD, analysing the way Asian-influenced physical theatre practitioners in Australia subvert stereotypes of gender and race through physical performance practice, was completed at Monash University in 2005.

Her work post-PhD has continued to investigate the construction of identity in contemporary and pop cultural performance, concentrating on the way artists marked by gender, race or (dis)ability mobilise images and media from the public sphere to subvert stereotypes, and the way spectators respond to such work. She has a particular interest in public space performances which position spectators as co-performers.

Hadley’s research has appeared in Performance Research, About Performance, Liminalities, Australasian Drama Studies, Brolga: An Australian Journal About Dance, M/C Journal, Asia Pacific Journal of Arts and Cultural Management, the collection International Faust Studies: Adaptation, Translation, Reception, and more than thirty conference papers in Australia and internationally.

Hadley is currently President of the Australasian Association for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies (ADSA), a Director of Performance Studies international (PSi), and a nationally recognised commentator on all forms of drama, theatre and performance in her role as a critic for The Australian.

Prior to joining QUT in 2007, Hadley worked as a dramaturg, director and administrator for independent theatre companies (including, most recently, Theatre@Risk and Walking into Bars in Melbourne), and the Glen Eira City Council, and taught drama, literature, writing, communications and cultural studies at Deakin University, Victoria University, Monash University, and Swinburne University of Technology TAFE.