Rate My Professor Andy Lavender

Lavender has authored monographs such as Documentary Theatre & Performance (Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2024) and Performance in the Twenty-First Century: Theatres of Engagement (Routledge, 2016). He co-edited Lightwork: Texts on and from Collaborative Multimedia Theatre (Intellect Books, 2022) and 4x45 | Neoliberalism, Theatre and Performance (Routledge, 2021), and edited volumes of Performance Research, including on Protest (2023). As principal investigator or co-investigator, he leads AHRC-funded projects CResCa, upgrading production arts IT infrastructure for creative technologies research, and ARray, developing augmented reality tools for costume design. A theatre practitioner, he was artistic director of the collaborative multimedia company Lightwork from 1997 to 2011. In professional roles, he is Subject Specialist in Theatre for the Hong Kong Council for Accreditation of Academic and Vocational Qualifications, chaired the 2012 Institutional Review of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, and has conducted accreditation, validation, and consultancy work internationally. His leadership includes developing the UK's largest postgraduate platform in theatre and performance and a PhD program at Royal Central School of Speech & Drama, and overseeing a conservatoire-university merger at Surrey.