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Dermot Daly

Lecturer

Dermot Daly is a Lecturer on Theatre and Performance courses within Leeds School of Arts. Alongside teaching and research, he is also active professionally as a director, actor and dramaturg; working regionally, nationally and internationally, on, and for, stage, screen, and audio.

Current Teaching

BA (Hons) Performing Arts
BA (Hons) Theatre and Performance

Research Interests

His research interests include:

Equality, diversity and inclusion
Curriculum reform and implementation
Widening participation
Practical drama/acting teaching methodology and practice

Leeds School of Arts

Ask Me About

Culture
Diversity
Education
Equality and inclusion
Performing Arts
Teaching
Theatre

Selected Outputs

Daly D (In press) At What A Price: The benefits of the unearthing of Una Marson’s unpublished play. Teaching Artist Journal
Daly D (In press) Book Review: Stanislavsky and Race: Questioning the “System” in the 21st Century. Stanislavski Studies, pp. 1-4.

https://doi.org/10.1080/20567790.2024.2330219
Daly D (2023) Augmenting and Emboldening Actor Training with the Hierarchy of Needs. Liminalities: a journal of performance studies, 19 (2), pp. 1-12.

http://liminalities.net/19-2/hierarchy.pdf
Daly D (2023) The microphone is always hot. Theatre, Dance and Performance Training, 14 (3), pp. 318-319.

https://doi.org/10.1080/19443927.2023.2250683
Daly D (2023) The canon and the contemporary: change, challenge, conceit. Theatre, Dance and Performance Training, pp. 1-16.

https://doi.org/10.1080/19443927.2023.2182830
Daly D (2023) Live Digital. Scene, 10 (1-2), pp. 7-27.

https://doi.org/10.1386/scene_00044_1
Daly D (2022) History, Theatre and Self. ArtsPraxis, 9 (2), pp. 1-15.

https://sites.google.com/nyu.edu/artspraxis/2022/volume-9-issue-2/daly-history-theatre-self
Daly D (2022) Opening rehearsal rooms as a way of broadening access, demystifying the process and breaking barriers. Journal of Class & Culture, 1 (2), pp. 173-193.

https://doi.org/10.1386/jclc_00014_1
Daly D (2022) Actions speak louder than words. An investigation around the promises and the reality of representation in actor training. Theatre, Dance and Performance Training, 13 (4), pp. 554-572.

https://doi.org/10.1080/19443927.2022.2078873
Daly D (2022) Using stories to tell curriculum or using curriculum to tell stories. Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning, 24 (1), pp. 187-197.

https://doi.org/10.5456/wpll.24.1.187

Daly D; O'Neill L; Rocha M (2024) Is The Touring Model Broken?. In: Big Imaginations 10-Year Symposium, 19 January 2024, Z-Arts, Manchester.
Daly D (2024) Democratising Learning Spaces. In: Arts and Citizenship: Moving and Belonging, 11 January 2024 - 12 January 2024, Northern School of Contemporary Dance.
Daly D (2023) What is your canon? Challenging racial stereotypes and increasing representation. In: Black Lives Matter: Health, Education and Leadership, 24 May 2023, Leeds Trinity University.
Daly D (2023) Training in the arts: Steps Towards sustainable change. In: A resilient future? (Discourse and celebration of Arts practice, research and teaching and learning in Higher Education out of turbulent times), 12 January 2023 - 13 January 2023, NSCD.
Daly D (2021) Whose stories are told? Whose stories are not?. In: Access, Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion: Collaborative Provision Conference, 19 October 2021 - 20 October 2021, University of Hull.