Stephen Farrier is an academic and theatre maker whose work focusses on queer performance, popular performance forms and the ethics of research. Through a long-lasting fascination with the representation of identity, he is drawn to lesser told narratives. His research focusses on creating space for erased, invisible and silenced voices and the prominence and accessibility of queer performance. He has published widely on queer performance and has presented academic work extensively in international settings.
Stephen’s work in ethics has seen him active in the sector in several ways and he is often invited to present about ethics and performance research. Stephen has extensive experience of successful PhDs supervision in the areas of gender, sexuality, queerness and identity and is regularly called on by a range of institutions to support PhD work in this area.
He helps sustain the health of his area by supporting projects and theatre companies alongside peer review and editorial work for a large range of international scholarly journals and publishers. He makes small scale work for fringe festivals, particularly collaborating with solo performers in the traditions of queer performance.