Andy Smith 

• Name : Andy Smith

• Job Title : Academic Subject Leader for Music & Performance

• Email : andy.smith@newport.ac.uk

• Contact Telephone Number : 01633 432607

• Campus : City Campus

• Academic Faculty and School or Department : Faculty of Arts & Business/School of Film, Photography and Digital Media

• Research Centre or Group : Performance and Screen Media

• Biography : Andy studied Drama at Aberystwyth University before undertaking a PhD with the University of Glamorgan. His doctoral thesis is a study of the British playwright Howard Barker and his theatre company The Wrestling School. Andy has published and presented on Howard Barker, post-war British theatre, horror cinema, the Gothic in popular culture and television hows including The Sopranos and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Andy has directed numerous theatre productions by Bertolt Brecht, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Caryl Churchill, Harold Pinter, Howard Barker, William Shakespeare, Sam Shepard and Anton Chekhov. In June 2010 Andy was a Visiting Scholar at New York University.

• Academic and Professional Qualifications :
  • PhD, University of Glamorgan, 2005.
  • Thesis: The Drama of Howard Barker and its relationship to Contemporary
  • British Theatre 1970-2004
  • BA (Hons) Drama, Aberystwyth University, 1991
    
    
• Professional Bodies and Memberships :
  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
    
    
• Research Expertise or Interest :
  • The Theatre of Howard Barker
  • Film Genre and Style
  • The Gothic in Popular Culture
  • Actor Training
  • Site-Specific Performance
  • Post-war British Theatre
  • Contemporary American Television Drama
  • Acting and Directing for the Camera
  • Pedagogic Research.
    
    
• Grants Awarded :
  • ‘The Lorca Project.’ Co-run with Paul Conway. A Practice-as-Research Project funded by a £3,900 award from the Research Support Scheme of the University of Wales, Newport 2010-2012.
  • ‘No one will hold your hand tonight - The Barker Project.’ A Practice-as-Research Project funded by a £5000 award from the Research Support Scheme of the University of Wales, Newport 2009-2011.
  • ‘Post-dramatic Chekhov: The Seagull in Close-up.’ A Practice-as-Research Project funded by a £5000 award from the Development Research Committee of the Newport School of Art, Media and Design 2007-2008.
  • Film acting and Directing. Co-run with  Nigel Orrillard and Roger Wooster. £5000 Teaching and Learning Grant funded by the University of Wales, Newport and £5000 matched funding from the Skillset Screen Academy Wales 2006-2009.
    
    
• Research Supervision : Andy is currently the Director of Study for two PhD candidates in the School: one is on the development of theatre directing as authorship, and the other on Screen Acting. Andy has also acted as a supervisor to a PhD on Gaming, Gender and Performance. He welcomes any prospective enquiries for Doctoral study in the areas of contemporary British Drama (particularly the work of Howard Barker, Sarah Kane and Martin Crimp), Horror Cinema and Acting/Directing for Theatre and/or Film.
  
  
• Publications :
  
        International Refereed Publications 2006-present:
  
  • ‘Magazines.’ In: W. Hughes, D. Punter and A. Smith, eds, The Encyclopedia of the Gothic. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell. In press, forthcoming, 2012
  • ‘Gothic and the Graphic Novel.’ In: C.L. Spooner and E. McEvoy, eds, The Routledge Companion to Gothic. London: Routledge, pp. 251-259. 2007.
  • 'These Children that you spit on': horror and generic hybridity.’ In: R.J. Hand and J. McRoy, eds, Monstrous Adaptations: Generic and Thematic Mutations in Horror Film. Manchester: Manchester University Press, pp. 82-94. 2007.
  • 'I am not what I was: Adaptation and Transformation in the Theatre of Howard Barker and the Wrestling School.’ In: K. Gritzner and D.I. Rabey, eds, Theatre of Catastrophe: New Essays on Howard Barker. London: Oberon Books, pp. 38-55. 2006.
    International Conference Presentations 2006-present:
  • ‘Freeing the Unborn Self: Howard Barker’s The Europeans.’ Howard Barker’s Art of Theatre, Aberystwyth University, July 2009.
  • ‘Actor and Director Training for Film.’ Co-presented with Nigel Orrillard. Theatre and Performance Research Association Conference, University of Leeds, September 2008.
  • ‘No Boat Lands on the Empty Shore: Adapting Chekhov.’ Cultures of Translation: Adaptation in Film and Performance,University of Glamorgan, Cardiff, June 2008.
  • ‘Post-Dramatic Chekhov: The Seagull in Close-up.’ Theatre Materials/Material Theatres, Centre for Excellence in Training for Theatre at the Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, April 2008.
  • ‘Neither Sun nor Death can be looked at without blinking: The Aesthetics of Eroticism in the drama of Howard Barker and The Wrestling School.’ At the Sharp End, University of Portsmouth, September 2007.
  • ‘They Shoot Actors - don’t they? Screen Acting and Film Production: exploring pedagogy for media performance.’ Co-presented with Nigel Orrillard and Roger Wooster. How To Act, Centre for Excellence in Training for Theatre at the Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, February 2007.
    Director, Practice-As-Research Theatre Productions 2006-present:
  • The Europeans by Howard Barker. Riverfront Studio Theatre, Newport, 2009.
  • The Seagull by Anton Chekhov. Riverfront Studio Theatre, Newport, 2007.
    
    
• Public Engagement Activities and Esteem Indicators :
  • Visiting Scholar, New York University, TISCH School of the Arts, June-July 2010.
  • External Moderator for AKMI Metropolitan College, Athens/Thessaloniki  2010-13.
  • External Panel Examiner for European Union Academy of Theatre and Cinema, Rome, 2010.
  • Conference Convener with Nigel Orrillard, International Symposium on Training for Film Acting and Film Directing. University of Wales, Newport, Caerleon, January 2009.
  • External Validator for Film Studies, Liverpool Hope University, February/October 2009.
  • Invited Public Lecture, The Seagull in Performance, Riverfront Theatre Studio Newport, April 2008.
  • Peer Review Reader for: Pearsons Publishing; Manchester University Press; Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance; Diegesis Journal of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions.
  • Book Reviewer for Gothic Studies.
  • Film Script The Unswept Floor (S4C and Cinetig) Winner BAFTA Cymru 2004 for Best Animation; Winner Best Animation Film, Celtic Film Festival 2004; Special Jury prize CINANIMA 2004, Portugal; Short-listed at Nashville Film Festival 2004; In Panorama at Annecy Animation Film Festival, 2004.