Liz Tomlin

Liz Tomlin is a professor of theatre and performance at the University of Glasgow. Her publications include Acts and Apparitions: Discourses on the Real in Performance Practice and Theory (Manchester University Press, 2013) and PoliticalDramaturgies and Theatre Spectatorship: Provocations for Change (Bloomsbury Methuen, 2019). She has recently focused on class analysis of theatre leading an AHRC Research Network on class discrimination in the British theatre industry (2018–19) and holding an AHRC Research, Development and Engagement Fellowship from 2022 to 2024 (Figurations of Working-Class Subjects in UK Theatre Practice and Policy). Open access publications resulting from this work include a co-edited Special Issue, ‘Artist Development: Access, Diversity, Exclusion’ (Studies in Theatre and Performance 40:3, 2020) and Staging Class Conflict in the UK (Cambridge University Press, 2025). She was formerly playwright and co-director with Point Blank Theatre (1999–2009), with selected playtexts published in Point Blank: Performance Texts and Critical Essays (Intellect, 2007).

Contact: University of Glasgow, 9 University Avenue, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK.