| Dr Ros Merkin teaches in areas of contemporary drama, theatre and performance, musical theatre and regional theatre with a special interest in creating new performance work. Her research has recently focused on regional theatre since project managing the AHRC funded Everyman Archive. She is the author of Liverpool’s Third Cathedral: The Liverpool Everyman Theatre written to celebrate the theatre’s 40th birthday and is co-editor of The Glory of the Garden: English Regional Theatre and the Arts Council 1984-2010 (CSP, 2010) and is currently working on a monograph on regional theatre and a book for Liverpool Playhouse’s 100th birthday in 2011. Recently she was the director of Suitcase, a site-specific performance for the 70th anniversary of the arrival of the first kindertransport in England, which is now being developed as a piece of TIE. |
