Who's who
Dr Simon Persighetti
Senior Lecturer in Devised Theatre
Simon Persighetti is a core member of Wrights & Sites, a group of performance-trained artists who have been producing site-specific performances, walking projects and other art works since their formation in 1997. Their recent book: A Mis-Guide to Anywhere was launched at the ICA, London, Spring 2006. His teaching and research both focus on contemporary performance (site-specific arts and devised theatre).
Simon has a background in community arts and touring theatre including work with The Crack Collective and Gog Theatre on their epic tour of Cameroon, West Africa. He also spent four years teaching visual arts and drama in Zambia.
As a core member of tEXt Festivals, involved in the planning and programming of an annual multi-media writing platform (2002 - present) he is involved with writing in many forms. His BBC radio play Maps (1985), the Edinburgh Festival production of TRAIN and the more recent Love Bites performed in Berlin and Munich, all have threads of travel and journey at their heart.
As well as his urban exploratory work that has included projects in Copenhagen, Zurich, Vienna, London and New York, he has also written scripts for the commercial theatre, most recently with an adaptation of The Snow Queen (2006) and A Christmas Carol (2007) for The Brewhouse Theatre Company. Because devising is central to his professional teaching and work in theatre and non-theatre spaces, interdisciplinary approaches to making work and issues around contextual practice are at the heart of his practice.
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