Tutor in Creative Arts, Macquarie University
Dr Janet Gibson is a theatre and performance studies scholar interested in the theatre of real people and new Australian work, especially that dealing with ageing and dementia and LGBTQI+ issues. Her book titled 'Dementia, Narrative and Performance: Staging Reality, Reimagining Identities' was published in 2020 by Palgrave Macmillan. She has taught media and communication across various tertiary education institutions for over 25 years; she managed a Communication program at a university college in Sydney for 15 years. She is a trained actor ( Uta Hagen, HB Studios, New York). She has worked in fringe theatre in New York and Sydney, including working in the first Tectonic Theater Project production of 'Women in Beckett' at Theater for the New City New York under the direction of Moisés Kaufman ( of 'The Laramie Project').
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