Hello! I’m Steve.
I’m a Professor of Theatre and Performance at the University of Glasgow where I run the Live Art in Scotland research project.
I write books and essays, most often about live art, queer performance and cultural politics. I also work with arts organisations like Take Me Somewhere and Company of Wolves.
My last book was about the politics of solo performance. My current project is about live art, Scotland and the curation of culture.
LGBTQ+ theatre from the 80s to the end of the millennium. In: Cochrane, Claire, Goddard, Lynette, Hindson, Catherine and Reid, Trish (eds.) Routledge Companion to Twentieth-Century British Theatre. Volume Two: 1950–2000. Routledge.
Performativity after repetition? Queer and feminist praxis in Nic Green’s Cock and Bull and Jade Montserrat’s Revue/Shadowing Josephine. In: Fragkou, Marissia and Benzie, Rebecca (eds.) The Methuen Drama Handbook of Women in Contemporary British Theatre.
Ghosts and Jumbies: decolonial live art in Scotland. Contemporary Theatre Review, 34(3), pp. 359-373. (doi: 10.1080/10486801.2024.2388036)
Live Art: radicalism and complicity in a scene of constraint. Contemporary Theatre Review, 34(3), pp. 231-250. (doi: 10.1080/10486801.2024.2388944)