Bio: Dr Joanna Jayne Bucknall is a performance maker and scholar. She is a lecturer at the University of Birmingham in the department for Drama & Theatre Arts, where her specialist areas include immersions and interactivity in performance, embodied performance documentation, practice-as-research methodologies and gamification of performance.

She is the producer and host of the podcast series, Talking about Immersive Theatre, (TAIT). She is the artistic director of Vertical Exchange Performance Collective (VEX), co-artistic director of KeepHouse Performance and an has been an Associate Artist at the New Theatre Royal in Portsmouth. Joanna’s research and practice is concerned with exploring, making and understanding work that includes its audiences in fundamental ways.

Joanna is a co-founder of the Immersive Experience Network and the founder of the Immersions & Interactivity Research Network based in the department of Drama & theatre Arts at the University of Birmingham. She has been the Principal Investigator for AHRC and ESRC funded projects and recently published Talking about Immersive Theatre: conversations on immersions and interactivities in performance with Bloomsbury.