Intellect

Professor Thea Brejzek (Ph.D.) is Program Director of the Doctorate Program Scenography, a collaboration between the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) and the Institute for Theatre, Film and Media Studies at the University of Vienna, and Curator for Theory at the 2011 Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space. Informed by her dual backgrounds as opera and new music stage director and academic, Thea’s research addresses questions
of virtuality and physicality on the mediated stage, intermediality and practice based research in scenography. She is the author of "Physicality and Virtuality: Memory, Space and Actor on the Mediated Stage" in: Alison Odey and Christine White (eds), The Potentials of Spaces: The Theory and Practice of Scenography and Performance, published in 2006 by Intellect, Bristol.

She is a member of OISTAT History & Theory Commission and of the Swiss Society for Semiotics and Cultural Theory as well as a Second Ph.D. Supervisor in the Z-Node Arts & Science Program, University of Plymouth and a member of the SIBILA Gender Research and Creativity Research Group.