Dr Helen Grime 

Lecturer 

Arts 

Email:

Helen.Grime@winchester.ac.uk 

Phone:

+44 (0) 1962 826420 

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Biography

Helen studied Drama and Theatre studies as an undergraduate at the University of London.  Since when she has worked in publishing (at Penguin Books), for Literary Management (at the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond), as a script advisor (to the playwright Steve Thompson) and in fringe theatre (for companies Tremor Cordis and Centre Forward).  She completed her PhD in 2008 and has been teaching in Higher Education for the last decade.

Expertise

• Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies (1891-1992).
• The actress 1890-1960.
• Theatre Archives

Publications

• Currently working on a monograph, Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies: Twentieth-Century Actress.
• To be published in the ‘Dramatic Lives’ series by Pickering & Chatto in 2013.
• Article ‘Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies: Ethereal from the Waist Up and All Welsh Pony down below.’ NTQ 2011 (27) pp 203-214
• Dramaturgical Consultant (Research) Nora & I Arts Council Funded devised project (Studio Theatre, University of Winchester 2008).
• Numerous papers given at Theatre conferences.

Research Interests

• Theatre historiography, particularly mythologizing and anecdote in theatre history.
• Women, theatre and performance.
• The history of the actress.
• British Theatre in the late nineteenth and twentieth century.
• Shakespeare as cultural icon.
• Suffragette playwrights.
• Female playwrights.
• New writing.
• Twentieth century American playwrights.
• Political theatre.
• Verbatim theatre.
• Theatre Archives.

Funding Awards and Professional Membership

A member of The Society for Theatre Research and the Historiography Working Group at TaPRA and IFTR.