Lecturer

Email: Tanya.Dean@TUDublin.ie

Dr Tanya Dean is an Assistant Lecturer in Drama in the Conservatoire of the Technological University Dublin, and Programme Chair of the B.A. (Hons) in Drama (Performance). She completed her Doctor of Fine Arts with Yale School of Drama in 2016, where she also received her Master of Fine Arts in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism in 2011. She is a former Assistant Editor of Theatre Research International, former General Manager for Irish Theatre Magazine, and also served as co-Managing Editor for Theater magazine. Her writing has appeared in Irish Theatre Magazine, Theatre History Studies, and numerous edited collections. From 2015-2017, Tanya served as a committee member for #WakingTheFeminists, and was a Research Associate on the report, Gender Counts: An analysis of gender in Irish theatre 2006-15. Her teaching and research interests include dramaturgy, playwriting, feminist theatre, contemporary and modern Irish theatre, and performance practice. Tanya is Associate Dramaturg of Then This Theatre Company in Dublin, and has worked extensively as a freelance dramaturg in Ireland, the UK, the USA, and Iceland.

Research/Practice Interests: Dramaturgy, Fairy Tales in European Theatre, Modern and Contemporary Irish Theatre, Feminism