Dr Kerrie Reading

Personal statement 

Kerrie joined the department in 2022, having previously worked at Cardiff Metropolitan University. She has been a freelance theatre practitioner for over 15 years, working across the fields of contemporary performance making and creativity within education.

Kerrie has a practice-based PhD from Aberystwyth University (2016) investigating how past approaches to making alternative performance can be considered today, with a focus on the venue and the archive of Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff.

She holds an MPhil in Performance (2013) from the University of Birmingham, exploring sites of performance with a particular emphasis on socially deprived urban areas. Her first degree (2007, MDrama) from the University of Kent focused on Contemporary Performance Practice which sparked her interest in devised work.

Kerrie has performed and exhibited performance work within the UK at various sites including forests, trains, factories and theatres with her former company, Needless Allies.

Between 2007 and 2012 she was an associate performer with theatre makers Stan's Cafe, touring internationally to festivals and venues. Kerrie has devised new performance works with Talking Birds, Cyrff Ystwyth and Ali Matthews, and as a solo performer.

Her current research is focused on the body as a site of performance, with an emphasis on trauma, and somatic practices.

Academic qualifications

• PhD
• MPhil
• MDrama

Professional memberships

• Fellow of Advance HE

Areas of expertise

• Making Performance

Areas of research supervision

• Site-Specific Practices
• Oral Histories and Archives
• Community Theatre/Applied Theatre
• Devised Theatre