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. ISBN 9780367495725

From trigger warnings to care dramaturgies: self-care and collective healing in Ryan Calais Cameron’s For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Hue is Too Heavy (2021). Journal of Contemporary Drama in English, (Accepted for Publication)

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. Series: Methuen drama handbooks. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9781350360259

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)

I’m the author of two books – Contemporary British Queer Performance (2012) and Queer exceptions: solo performance in neoliberal times (2018) – as well as a range of essays on theatre, performance and contemporary culture. I’m particularly interested in the relationship between performance and the conditions (social, political and economic) which make it possible – especially when such work is judged to be outside of the mainstream. I am currently writing a history of live art and experimental performance in Scotland.

You can find a regularly updated list of my academic publications at the University of Glasgow’s Enlighten research repository. My other shorter essays include:

• Context notes: Who Killed My Father?
• Lecture notes on Selina Thompson’s Race Cards
• A programme note for Ella Hickson’s The Writer
• Defying the norm? Hardly, the Edinburgh Fringe defines it
• Notes on Stef Smith’s Cured
• Amy Lame’s Unhappy Birthday
• Homosocial Detective Adventures

The Soloist was an occasional podcast interview series about solo performance and solo performers hosted by Steve Greer. It was created in the early stages of what would eventually become the book Queer exceptions (2018). Each episode is a conversation with a different artist from across the fields of theatre and performance which explores the skills, choices and collaborative relationships that make solo performance possible. It’s also a show about the fine detail of making art as it collides with the practicalities of getting paid and finding an audience.

You can subscribe to the podcast feed on iTunes, via RSS or listen to archived episodes below.

The Soloist

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I welcome proposals from prospective PhD or MPhil students who are interested in studying at the University of Glasgow. I am particularly able to support projects concerned with:

• contemporary British theatre and performance
• Live Art in the UK
• queer studies / queer culture
• sexuality, gender and feminism
• new media and digital performance / theatre, performance and gaming
• social and applied theatre / activism

I’m very happy to talk through draft proposals, and discuss possibilities for funding – for initial conversations, please contact me at stephen.greer@glasgow.ac.uk.