Anna Birch (PhD) is Lecturer, Research at Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Glasgow, Scotland. She is Artistic Director and founder member of Fragments & Monuments performance and film company, based in Hackney, East London, England. She is co-editor of a special edition of Contemporary Theatre Research entitled “Site-Specificity and Mobility,” and a collection of essays : Birch, A and Tompkins, J (eds) Performing Site-Specific Theatre – Politics, Place, Practice. Katherine Cockin (Hull University, UK) invited her to direct an early twentieth century play, A Pageant of Great Women (by Cicely Hamilton, originally directed by Edith Craig) for an international conference, film and DVD, May 2011. Fragments & Monuments’ exhibition, The Wollstonecraft Live Experience! specially curated for Hackney Museum in East London, UK, opened in February 2010 and Time Out gave it critics choice. The limited edition art book and DVD are available from www.fragmentsandmonuments.com.
Performance, Film & Research
