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My main research area is the drama of Samuel Beckett, including performance histories of his stage plays and stage adaptations from prose, television and radio texts. I have published on Irish theatre and performance, including the work of Brian Friel, Thomas Kilroy and Marina Carr as well as contemporary Irish theatre companies such as Company SJ and Gare St Lazare Players Ireland. My published work engages with theories of intermediality, as well as performance studies, gender and postcolonialism. I was very honoured to receive the Irish Society for Theatre Research’s 2024 Award for Outstanding Contribution to Theatre and Performing Research for my work on Irish Women’s Theatre and on Samuel Beckett.

Publications include:ÌýSamuel Beckett’s Intermedial Eco-Systems (2021), Performing Embodiment in Samuel Beckett’s DramaÌý(2010) andÌýTheatre on Trial: The Later Drama of Samuel BeckettÌý(1993). I was co-editor ofÌýBeckett’s Afterlives: Adaptation, Remediation, Appropriation (2023) with Jonathan Bignell and Pim Verhulst, and of Reflections on BeckettÌý(2009) with Steve Wilmer. I co-edited with David Pattie an issue ofÌýSamuel Beckett Today / Aujourd’huiÌýon Staging Beckett at the Margins (29.2, 2017) and, with Graham Saunders, an issue ofÌýContemporary Theatre ReviewÌýon Staging Beckett and contemporary theatre and performance cultures (28.1, 2018).ÌýWith Cathy Leeney I co-edited The Theatre of Marina Carr: ‘before rules was made’ (2003); a special issue of Australasian Drama Studies with Brian Singleton (2003) on ‘Performing Ireland’; and the ‘Contemporary Playwrights’ section of the Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing, Vol 5 (2002) with Caroline Williams, dedicated to female writers.

From 2012-15, I was Principal Investigator on the AHRC-funded research project, Staging Beckett: The Impact of Productions of Samuel Beckett’s Drama on Theatre Practice and Cultures in the United Kingdom and Ireland: see