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Dr Oliver Bray

Dean of School

Dr Oliver Bray is the Dean of Leeds School of Arts at Leeds Beckett University.

Oliver holds an undergraduate degree, awarded first-class, in Theatre Studies (University of Hull), an MA, awarded with distinction, in Contemporary Art (Manchester Metropolitan University), and a practice-led PhD in the poetics of constraint in performance (University of Leeds). He is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Oliver’s well-respected performance and live art practice has toured nationally and internationally to venues and festivals including the Sibiu International Theatre Festival, Romania; In between Time, Bristol; and the National Review of Live Art, Glasgow. Oliver is a Board Director for the Centre for Live Art Yorkshire and an Editorial Board member for the Voice and Speech Review, published by Routledge.

Current Teaching

MA Performance
PhD supervision

Research Interests

Oliver’s current research interests stem from his professional practice in contemporary performance and live art but are inherently interdisciplinary in nature. As a theatre maker and practice-led researcher, his current interests include methodologies of restriction and constraint, speech-making, the art of rhetoric and the performance potential of ’pataphysical post-truth in the 21st century.

Leeds School of Arts

Selected Outputs

Bray O (2019) Perecquian Spaces for Performance Practice. In: Georges Perecs Geographies : Material, Performative and Textual Spaces. UCL Press,

bray O (2016) Literary and Theatrical Constraint. In: Perec's Geographies / Perecquian Geographies, 6 May 2016 - 7 May 2016, University of Sheffield.

Bray OP (2016) Playing with Constraint: Performing the OuLiPo and the clinamen-performer. Performance Research: a journal of the performing arts, 21 (4), pp. 41-46.

https://doi.org/10.1080/13528165.2016.1192866

. (2018) Ursonate Post-truth. 1 August 2018 - 1 August 2019. Summerhall, Edinburgh and Scuola Grande di San Marco, Venice.:

https://vimeo.com/294554269
Bray OP. (2014) Of This Room. 1 November 2014. Compass festival of Live Art, Stage@Leeds, Leeds. Shift Festival, Contact Theatre, Manchester.:
Bray OP. (2014) The Elision of Scaff'. 1 April 2014. Stage@Leeds, Leeds.:
Bray OP. (2013) The Animal Was Upon Him. 15 March 2013. stage@leeds, Leeds. Yorkshire Dance, Leeds:
Bray OP. (2011) The Speech Maker. 26 November 2011 - 29 June 2012. Compass Festival of live Art, Leeds, Nov 2011. Sibiu International Theatre Festival, May 2012: Compass Festival of Live Art.

http://vimeo.com/40902086