2019
“Take up her bed”: Cleopatra’s bed in Antony and Cleopatra.
Arrêt sur Scène /Scene Focus n°8, Scènes de Lit / Bedchamber Scenes. (Ed.) S. Iyengar, S. Mayo & N. Vienne-Guerrin.
Dr Lori Leigh is a Senior Research Fellow with the Department of Public Health at the University of Otago working with the New Zealand Centre for Sustainable Cities, Public Housing & Urban Regeneration programme: Maximising Wellbeing. Lori has a background in the creative and arts sector and is passionate about wellbeing and issues affecting Takatāpui/LGBTQIA+ identities.
Lori has a wide breadth of research interests including practice-based research. Their work focuses on gender and sexuality, Shakespeare, stagecraft, performance, and dramaturgy. Lori’s research has been published by Palgrave MacMillan, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, and Routledge. Additionally, they have presented on theatre in site-sympathetic and urban spaces as well as work that encourages audiences to rethink public space as “performing”. Lori also works as a professional writer, director, and dramaturg and has received several awards and nominations for their creative work including the top “Production of the Year” Wellington Theatre Award for their original drag musical, The Glitter Garden.
Key publications
- 2018Stagecraft and Statecraft: Queenship and Theatricality on the Shakespearean Stage.In K. Finn & V. Schutte. (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Shakespeare’s Queens. (pp.9-28).Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-3-319-74517-6.
- 2014Shakespeare and the Embodied Heroine: Staging Female Characters in the Late Plays and Early Adaptations.Palgrave Macmillan
- 2013The "Unscene" and Unstaged in Double Falsehood, Cardenio, and Shakespeare’s Romances.In T. Bourus & G. Taylor (Eds.), The Creation and Re-Creation of Cardenio: Performing Shakespeare, Transforming Cervantes.(pp.171-184). Oxford Univerity Press, Oxford.