Elisha CONWAY
Elisha Conway teaches in the Professional Theatre Department at CEGEP John Abbott College. She is also a trained scenographer and dramaturge. A revised chapter of her MA thesis, entitled “Staging Hyperrealism: Tracing the influence of the televisual in Thomas Ostermeier’s 'Woyzeck,'” was published in 'Scene' (1.3). Conway’s dissertation project, entitled 'Feeling Spaces: Affect and Emotion in the Spatial Practices of Contemporary Theatre,' asks the question: how does space make us feel in performance?
Ph.D. in English, ۲ݮƵ University (2019)
M.A. with honours in Theatre Theory and Dramaturgy, University of Ottawa, (2012)
B.A. with honours in English Drama and Theatre, ۲ݮƵ University (2010)
Festival theatre, immersive theatre, site-specific performance, affect theory, theories of space and spatiality.