Professor Gregory Thompson (Course Lead, Creative and Collaborative Enterprise MA) and Professor Haidy Geismar (Director, School for the Creative and Cultural Industries) were part of the advisory panel for ‘Theatre Transformed: Harnessing Research, Development, & Innovation’.
The UK theatre sector’s success has been built on a long history of experimentation and innovation. Yet, theatre has been largely overlooked in policy conversations on research, development and innovation (RD&I). This research, supported by Arts Council England (ACE) and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), aims to address that gap and identifies future frontiers and policy actions to unlock the sector’s full potential.
At the launch of the report, a panel including Christopher Smith (AHRC) and other industry experts joined report author Eliza Erskine and National Theatre Executive Director Kate Varah to outline the contributions that research and innovation in theatre make not just to the theatre sector but to community engagement, law, creative technologies industries and more.
The report has a series of policy recommendations to support theatre’s contributions to the cultural economy ecosystem from embedding the performing arts in innovation policy to supporting ethical AI and digital adoption.
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Read Theatre Transformed: Harnessing Research, Development, & Innovation on the National Theatre website
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