Greg Wohead is a performance maker, writer and researcher whose practice-led work explores the intersections of performance, affect, temporality and self-presentation. He holds a practice-as-research PhD from University of Bristol, where his thesis Just a Stage: Resistant Potentials of Weirding the Self in Performance articulated ‘weirding the self’ as a strategy of resistance through performance. His academic work stems directly from an ongoing artistic practice, and he is committed to forms of research that centre experimentation, self-reflexivity and embodied experience.
Artistic and academic interests include:
weirdness as resistance
contemporary performance practices
autotheory and artistic self-writing
queer temporalities and melancholia
affect theory and emotional dramaturgy
durational and unscripted text-based performance
creative-critical writing and hybrid forms
practice-as-research methodologies
unspectacular aesthetics
He has presented research and given invited talks at institutions including University of Lisbon and Lisbon Theatre and Film School as well as IFTR as part of the Queer Futures working group. He regularly collaborates across academic and artistic contexts and is actively seeking opportunities to contribute to and learn from research communities.
Greg has taught widely across higher education, leading workshops, designing modules and mentoring students in theatre and performance at institutions including University for the Creative Arts, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of Reading, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and University of Chichester. He has also supported numerous emerging artists as a dramaturg and mentor through a long-term Artistic Associate position at The Yard.
His writing appears in publications such as DIY Too (ed. Robert Daniels), In Other Words 2 (curated by Kate Marsh, Harold Offeh and Xavier de Sousa, published by Metal) and Paper Stages 2020 (Forest Fringe). His work has also been discussed in Performance in an Age of Precarity by Maddy Costa and Andy Field.
Greg is open to invitations for collaboration, teaching, publication and research residencies, especially those that support interdisciplinary approaches, critical openness and practice-as-research inquiry.