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.
Oliver joined Leeds Beckett University in 2006, has been the Head of Performing Arts since 2014 and is now the Director of Arts in the Leeds School of Arts.
Oliver’s well-respected performance and live art practice has toured nationally and internationally to venues and festivals including Sibiu International Theatre Festival, Romania; In between Time, Bristol; and the National Review of Live Art, Glasgow. His performance work seeks always to be genuinely innovative and edgy, while remaining unapologetically inclusive, eminently watchable and often quite a bit funny.
Selected Publications
Books (1)
- Bray O; Bray P (2013) Voicing Trauma and Truth Narratives of Disruption and Transformation. . .
Chapters (1)
- Bray O (2019) Perecquian Spaces for Performance Practice. In: Bray O Georges Perecs Geographies. : UCL Press, pp. .
Conference contributions (1)
- bray O (2016) Literary and Theatrical Constraint University of Sheffield 20160506. : .
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Journal articles (3)
- Bray OP (2016), Playing with Constraint: Performing the OuLiPo and the clinamen-performer. Performance Research: a journal of the performing arts
https://doi.org/10.1080/13528165.2016.1192866
View Repository Record - Bray OP (2008), First- and last-year experience: assessment, learning and teaching on a top-up degree. Assessment, Teaching and Learning Journal, vol. 4
View Repository Record - Bray OP (2007), Towards an Academic Artist: Recognising Teachers & Learners as Performance Practitioners.
Books (1)
- Bray O; Bray P (2013) Voicing Trauma and Truth Narratives of Disruption and Transformation. . .
Chapters (4)
- Bray O (2019) Perecquian Spaces for Performance Practice. In: Bray O Georges Perecs Geographies. : UCL Press, pp. .
- Bray OP (2013) 'Why me?' Trauma through a Performance Lens: Performance through a Trauma Lens. In: Bray OP The Strangled Cry: The Communication and Experience of Trauma. : Inter-Disciplinary Press, pp. .
- Bray OP; Bray P (2013) 'Why Can't I Stop Looking?' A Therapeutic and Performative Debate on the Performance of Trauma. In: Bray OP; Bray P . : , pp. .
- Bray OP; Bray P (2011) Fathers and Sons: An Autoethnographic Case Study of Bereavement and Trauma. In: Bray OP; Bray P Traumatic Imprints: Performance, Art, Literature and Theoretical Practice. : , pp. .
Conference contributions (4)
- Bray O; Pinchbeck M; Nicklin H (2016) WHERE FROM HERE: 21 Years of Third Angel Leeds Beckett University 20161117. : .
- bray O (2016) Literary and Theatrical Constraint University of Sheffield 20160506. : .
- Bray OP (2012) The Speech Maker Leeds 20120627. : .
- Bray OP; Bray P (2011) Fathers and Sons: An Autoethnographic Case Study of Bereavement and Trauma Prague, Czech Republic 20110311. : .
Theses or dissertations (1)
- Bray OP (2018), Exercises in Constraint: The Poetics of the OuLiPo in Performance.
