Evi Stamatiou
Senior Lecturer
Senior Lecturer
Acting for Stage and Screen
School of Arts and Creative Industries , School Of Arts And Creative Industries
Dr Evi Stamatiou is a Senior Lecturer in Acting for Stage and Screen and Course Leader of the MA/MFA Acting for Stage and Screen at the University of East London. She has a PhD in Actor Training and Direction from The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London.
Qualifications
- PhD, The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London
- Certificate, Filmmaking, New York Film Academy.
- Certificate, Acting for Film, New York Film Academy.
- MA, Arts Policy and Management, Birkbeck College, University of London.
- MA, Theatre Directing, University of East London.
Areas Of Interest
- Acting
- Actor Training
- Inclusive pedagogies
- Innovative pedagogies
- Comedy
- Social representations in drama
OVERVIEW
Dr Evi Stamatiou is a practitioner-researcher of actor training. During her two decades of international experience as an actor and creative, she has won international awards and funding. She is a Senior Lecturer and Course Leader of the MA/MFA Acting for Stage and Screen. She has a PhD in Actor Training and Direction from The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She is the chair of the Acting Program at the Association for Theater in Higher Education and a convener of the Performer Training Focus Group at the Theatre and Performance Research Association. She has published in academic books and journals (see PUBLICATIONS list below). The edited volume Critical Acting Pedagogy: Intersectional approaches (co-edited with Lisa Peck) will be published by Routledge in 2024.
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TEACHING
MA Acting for Stage and Screen
Hone your craft with a Master's in Acting for Stage and Screen at the University of East London. Develop your performance skills for a career in theatre and film.
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Full publications list
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- Parodying Through Song: How Comic Devices in King George III’s Songs in Hamilton Challenge Contemporary Dispositions About the Symbolic Value of Youth Culture in: Wetmore, K. J., Jr. (ed.) Hamilton, History and Hip Hop: Essays on an American Musical. McFarland, pp.73-88
- Liminal Casting: Self-Inquisitive Scene Study in Actor Training in: Peck, L. and Stamatiou, E. (ed.) Critical Acting Pedagogy: Intersectional Approaches. Routledge, pp.121-134
- ‘Call Me by My Name’: inclusive actor training for second language users Theatre, Dance and Performance Training. 15 (2), pp. 162-178. https://doi.org/10.1080/19443927.2024.2335649
- Emotion Memory versus Physical Action Towards Anti-racist Pedagogies that Make Way for Critical Praxis in: Scott, S. and Skelton, J. (ed.) Stanislavski and Race: Questioning the “System” in the 21st Century. Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, pp.62-79
- Bourdieu in the Studio: Decolonising and Decentering Actor Training through Ludic Activism London and New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group
- Albania in: Remshardt, R. and Mancewicz, A. (ed.) The Routledge Companion to Contemporary European Theatre and Performance. Routledge Taylor & Francis Group
- A screen actor prepares: Self-taping by reversing Stanislavsky’s Method of Physical Actions Stanislavski Studies. 11 (1), pp. 63-79. https://doi.org/10.1080/20567790.2023.2196297
- Developing the Critical Verbatim Theater Artist during the Pandemic: A Transatlantic Collaboration Artspraxis. 9 (1), pp. 13-33
- Joan Littlewood and Ariane Mnouchkine against the canon: developing the actors’ social representations through clowning Theatre, Dance and Performance Training. 13 (4), pp. 519-535. https://doi.org/10.1080/19443927.2021.1968026
- Pierre Bourdieu and actor training: towards decolonising and decentering actor training pedagogies Theatre, Dance and Performance Training. 13 (1), pp. 96-114. https://doi.org/10.1080/19443927.2021.1943509
- Stepping Forward: An Exploration of Devised Theatre’s Democratic Designs in an Actor-Training Setting in: Aragay, M., Botham, P. and Prado-Pérez, J. R. (ed.) World Political Theatre and Performance: Theories, Histories, Practices . BRILL, pp.98-113