Personal
- Name
- Professor Paul Makeham
- Position(s)
- Head of School (MECA)
Creative Industries Faculty,
School of Media, Entertainment, Creative Arts,
School of Media, Entertainment, Creative Arts - Discipline *
- Performing Arts and Creative Writing
- Phone
- +61 7 3138 3234
- Fax
- +61 7 3138 3975
- p.makeham@qut.edu.au
- Location
- View location details (QUT staff and student access only)
- Qualifications
-
PhD (University of Newcastle), BA(Hons) (University of Newcastle)
- Professional memberships
and associations - ADSA (Australasian Association for Theatre, Drama and Performance Studies): http://www.adsa.edu.au/
- La Boite Theatre Company: http://www.laboite.com.au
- Keywords
-
Australian theatre, performance studies
Biography
Paul Makeham is Portfolio Director (Drama / Film & TV / Creative Writing & Literary Studies) in the Creative Industries Faculty at QUT.
He has previously been Head of Performance Studies, and from 2002 to 2006, was Course Coordinator of the Bachelor of Creative Industries, the world’s first bachelor program of its type.
His PhD study of discourses of landscape in Australian drama was completed at the University of Newcastle, Australia, in 1996. He has published internationally on a range of theatre and performance-related topics, and is a member of the board of La Boite Theatre.
He is also a past President of ADSA, the Australasian Association for Theatre, Drama and Performance Studies. He is a Chief Investigator on the ARC-funded AusStage project, and is centrally involved in a range of applied theatre consultancies.
He has been Academic Coordinator (International) for the Creative Industries Faculty, and in 2005-2006 was a Director on the Large Grant project ‘Internationalising the Curriculum: Attending to Cultural Diversity Across Three Faculties at QUT’. From 2002-2004 he coordinated the CI Faculty Core Units, and was Faculty Coordinator of Workplace Learning in 2004-2005.
Experience
Board Member, La Boite Theatre Company (2007 – Present)
Publications
- Gesche A, Makeham PB, (2008) Creating conditions for intercultural and international learning and teaching, Researching International Pedagogies: Sustainable Practice for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education p1-16
- Makeham PB, (2005) Interview With Paul Makeham, Original 'Aftershocks' Cast Member, Dramactive: Book 2 p73-76
- Makeham PB, (2005) Performing The City, Theatre Research International p150-160
- Makeham PB, (2001) Fear and Desire under the Big Sky, Siting the Other: Re-Visions of Marginality in Australian and English-Canadian Drama p141-154
- Makeham PB, Nichols N, (2001) Digging in the Backyard: Mirthless at the Powerhouse, Ignite p56-58
- Makeham PB, (2001) Fear and Desire Under the Big Sky: Brink Visual Theatre and the Post-colonial Australian Landscape, Siting The Other Re-visions Of Marginality In Australian And English-Canadian Drama p141-154
- Makeham PB, (2000) 'The City's Surrounded by Fire': Michael Gow's The Kid, Australasian Drama Studies p73-89
- Makeham PB, (1999) Narrative structure and the BLURRED landscape, Blurred: Creating Performance For Young People p19-22
- Makeham PB, (1998) Community Stories: 'Aftershocks' and Verbatim Theatre, Our Australian Theatre In The 1990's p168-181
For more publications by this staff member, visit QUT ePrints, the University's research repository.
Supervision
Completed supervisions (Doctorate)
- The Elusive Allusive: The Use of Allusion and Quotation as Acts of Authorship in Playwriting (2006)
- Towards an Ecosophical Praxis of New Media Space Design (2003)
Completed supervisions (Masters by Research)
- Adventures in Cyberformance: Experiment at the Interface of Theatre and the Internet (2009)
- Being Ethical: How Process Drama Assists Pre-Service Drama Teachers to Reflect on Professional Ethics (2009)
- But What I Really Want to do is Write: Adapting the Mike Leigh Method for Writers for the stage (2009)
- Acts of Dissension: How political theatre has been presented in the past and what strategies the playwright can employ to make issues of radical or alternative politics more accessible to a mainstream theatre audience (2008)
- It made you feel what? Using structure to convey theme (2008)
- Myth-Making in the Great South Land: the creation of large-scale personas in small-scale stories (2008)
- Section 24 of the Criminal Code: Navgating Veracity and Verisimilitude in Verbatim Theatre (2008)
- The Collaborative Impact: Writing a Play with the Collaboration of Actors (2008)
