Professor Dominic Hingorani
Head of Department
Professor
Head of Department
Department of Music, Writing & Performance , School Of Arts And Creative Industries
Dominic is a Professor of Performing Arts and Co-Artistic Director of Brolly Productions. This cross-arts company, led by artists from diverse backgrounds, creates new opportunities for underrepresented performers and engages wider audiences with arts and heritage.
Dominic is a fellow of the HEA.
Areas Of Interest
- Theatre and performance
- Representation, inclusion and access in the arts and heritage
OVERVIEW
Dominic is an academic, playwright, director and producer. He is current a Reader in Theatre and Performance and a Postgraduate Research Leader at the University of East London. His research is practice-based and focuses on art form innovation and the development of diverse artists and audiences for the arts to address the historic and current lack of inclusion, representation and access.
His work challenges the portrayal of British Asian theatre as marginal, arguing for its central place in mainstream culture. His extensive publications on this subject include a 2010 monograph, "British Asian Theatre – Dramaturgy, Process and Performance," published by Palgrave. He also co-chairs TAPRA's Asian Performance and Diaspora group. Dominic originally trained as an actor at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and worked professionally in theatre, film, television and radio for over ten years.
Dominic is co-artistic director of Brolly Productions, a BME-led performance company that creates and curates original projects across art forms for new and diverse audiences; many of whom are first-time arts attendees.
External roles
- Link tutor: Italia Conti
CURRENT RESEARCH
Dr Hingorani's research practice contests the position of marginal voices within the mainstream and aims to develop innovative cross-arts performance work for new and diverse audiences; especially among those who may not have attended an arts event before.
PUBLICATIONS AND PERFORMANCES
- (2020-2022) The Stopping Place - A large-scale participatory all-female identifying choral work based on Roma music
and cultural heritage created and produced by Brolly in partnership with the London Borough of Newham, Newham Music Education Hub supported by Arts Council England. - (2019) The Powder Monkey - A national tour of a new opera work created by Brolly Productions CIC in collaboration with
internationally acclaimed composer Errollyn Wallen MBE in partnership with Opera North, The National Maritime Museum & Chatham Historic Dockyard supported by Arts Council England. - (2017) her - A national tour of a new play for diverse teenage audiences created and produced by Brolly Productions in a
co-production with Half Moon Theatre supported by Cockayne - The London Community Foundation and Arts Council England in association with War Child. - (2017) 'Performing Difference - Diversity, Representation and the Nation' in Breed & Prentki (Eds.) Performance and
Civic Engagement. Palgrave pp. 41 – 69. - The chapter examines the innovative methodology of the new opera work Clocks 1888: The Greener created by Brolly
Productions which places often marginalised Black and Asian characters centre stage of the opera and disrupts the borders of the form by drawing on the Asian, music hall and musical theatre traditions in a bid to decolonise the form. - (2014 - 2016) Opera - Clocks 1888: The Greener A national tour of a new opera created by Brolly Productions CIC in
partnership with the Hackney Empire & CAST Doncaster in association with British, Hackney and Doncaster Museums.
TEACHING
MA Theatre Directing
Pursue a professional career as a theatre director, develop your directing practice through an active engagement with critical thinking.
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The last four years of publications can be viewed below.
Full publications list
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- Performing Difference: Diversity, Representation and the Nation in: Breed, Ananda and Prentki, Tim (ed.) Performance and Civic Engagement. Palgrave Macmillan, pp.41-68
- British Asian Theatre: Dramaturgy, Process and Performance Palgrave Macmillan