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Naomi Smyth
Immersive and participatory theatre: Practice and Research
Writer, Director, Designer and Performer. Shows, performance installations, ARGs. Trained in embodied improvisation. PhD researcher examining how theatre artists are responding to COVID-19: our losses, our grief, our chosen technologies and our creative discoveries.
Immersive Play
Play is at the core of my creative practice and research. Each of us contains infinite possibilities- a cast of characters we inhabit and that inhabit us at different moments in our lives. When we bring our whole selves to our play it needn't be light or trivial. Wholehearted, courageous play can encompass our struggles, our grief and all that makes us human.
Research
PhD researcher at Bath Spa University. Member of B+B R&D, Expanded Performance and Narrative and Emerging Tech (NET) Lab
Playing The Fool
Member of Beyond The Ridiculous, a company devising solo shows live from authentic impulses: we call it 'Fooling'.
XR Work
Binaural sound, theatrical RFID systems, ARG, live Zoom, VR theatre.