Participant Info

First Name
Gilli
Last Name
Bush-Bailey
Country
United Kingdom
State
Affiliation
Royal Central School of Speech and Drama University of London
Website URL
http://www.cssd.ac.uk/staff/profiles/prof-gilli-bush-bailey-ba-ma-phd-0
Keywords
British theatre history forgotten histories of woman theatre histories and practice, revivals, Women as actresses, playwrights and managers, 17th c actresses and playwrights, 19th c actresses, one woman shows radio and tv 1960s mid-late 20th century
Availability
Media Contact
Additional Contact Information
I am Emerita Professor and so no longer fully employed. I research in UK and abroad and have commitments to travel over coming years but always answer emails within 48 hrs
PhD
PhD

Personal Info

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About Me

I come from a background of professional theatre and screen practice which informs the histories I research and write. I have worked as historical advisor / dramaturg with theatre companies, most recently at the RSC 2018. I have retired from full time academic work but still research active and actively connected to younger colleagues in the field. If I don’t know the field you have questions about…I will most likely know someone who does.

Recent Publications

Books: (monographs)

 2011: Performing Herself: AutoBiography & Fanny Kelly’s Dramatic Recollections (Manchester University Press)

 2006: Treading The Bawds: Actresses & Playwrights on the Late Stuart Stage , (Manchester University Press)

Books: (co-edited)

2012: Plays and Performance Texts by British and American Women from the Modernist Period 1880-1930, Edited by Maggie B. Gale and Gilli Bush-Bailey (Manchester: Manchester University Press)

Chapters in Books:

2014: ‘Shifting Scenes: The Child Performer and Her audience Revisited in the Digital Age’, Entertaining Children eds., Gillian Arrighi and Victor Emeljanow (New York: Palgrave Macmillan)

2014: ‘The Gerbini Letters; or a Tale of Two Mothers’, Stage Mothers, eds. Laura Engel & Elaine McGirr (Bucknell University Press, US,

2013: ‘Biting the Hand that Feeds Her’, Women and Comedy eds., Peter Dickinson et.al. (Madison, Teaneck: Farleigh Dickinson University Press)

2012: ‘Re: Enactment’, Cambridge Companion to Theatre History eds., David Wiles & Chris Dymkowski (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)

2007: “Revolution, Legislation & Autonomy”, in The Cambridge Companion to the Actress eds., Maggie B. Gale & John Stokes. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). pp15-32

2007: “Fitting the Bill: Acting out the season at the Sans Pareil 1813/14” in The Performing Century: Theatre in Nineteenth-Century Britain ed. Tracy C. Davis and Peter Holland, (Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan). pp182-197

Journal and website

2014: ‘Advance Notice’ Studies in Theatre and Performance http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14682761.2014.917905

2012: ‘Women Like Us’  (special edition) Comedy Studies (2012) Vol.3: 2, pp.151-159

Media Coverage
Country Focus
United Kingdom
Expertise by Geography
United Kingdom
Expertise by Chronology
17th century, 19th century, 20th century
Expertise by Topic
Gender, Women