Participant Info
- First Name
- Gilli
- Last Name
- Bush-Bailey
- Country
- United Kingdom
- State
- Gilli.bush-bailey@cssd.ac.uk
- 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
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- United Kingdom
- Expertise by Geography
- United Kingdom
- Expertise by Chronology
- 17th century, 19th century, 20th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Gender, Women