Professor Rick Kemp
Rick has worked with theatres and companies such as the Almeida, BAC, Cockpit, Complicite, Riverside Studios, Soho, Tricycle, and Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, Edinburgh’s Traverse Theatre, Toronto’s Harbourfront, New York’s Perry St. Theatre, Madrid’s Círculo de Bellas Artes, and Peter Brook’s Bouffes du Nord in Paris, as well as touring his solo clown show Coming Home worldwide. As the co-founder and Artistic Director of Commotion he has received the British Telecom Innovations Award, and multiple Critics Choice awards from The Guardian and Time Out London. He has also received the Institut Français Award for Theatre and the Heinz Endowments Creative Heights Award.
In the USA, directing credits include Hamlet, Riddley Walker and e-lectricity for The Pittsburgh Playhouse, his own play, Shrew and The Comedy of Errors for the Unseam’d Shakespeare Company, and seven devised shows for Squonk Opera. He has numerous acting credits for Quantum Theatre, and with Dan Jemmett has devised and performed The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, The Museum of Desire, and faustUS, and collaborated on Twelfth Night at Warsaw’s Teatr Polski.
Rick is Professor of Theatre and Head of Acting and Directing at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA, and a Fellow of The Salzburg Global Seminar on Neuroscience and Art. His publications include Embodied Acting: What Neuroscience Tells Us About Performance (Routledge 2012), The Routledge Companion to Jacques Lecoq (Routledge 2016) and The Routledge Companion to Theatre, Performance and Cognitive Science (Routledge 2019).
→ Rick Kemp’s website
Dr. Gunter Lösel
Gunter heads the Research Focus Performative Practice at the Institute for the Performing Arts and Film (IPF), Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK). He holds a PHD in theatre studies and a diploma in psychology. His research interests comprise the history and practice of improvisation in theatre, collaborative creativity and practices of artistic research. He is also working as an actor, being a member and artistic director of the award-winning “Improtheater Bremen”, the duo “Stupid Lovers” and various improvising theatres.
Currently he is the main applicant of the ongoing research project “Research Video” (2017–2021), exploring the possibilities of annotated videos as a new standard in the publication of results in artistic research.
His publications include Can Robots Improvise?, (Liminalities 2018), The Improviser’s lazy Brain (Routledge 2018), Research Video- Annotated Videos as a Tool for the Publication of Artistic Research, Academy for the Performing Arts 2018 Prague 160–169 and Playing Games with Frames, SubTexte 2017.
Gunter has organized and designed the Research Academy from 2015-19 and is now part of the faculty.
→ Gunter Lösel’s website