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Dr Renée Newman
Dr Renée Newman
Renée is the current Associate Dean (Research) at WAAPA and Course Coordinator of the Bachelor of Performing Arts Honours.
Current teaching
- BPA4001 - Performing Arts Research
- BPA4002 - Creative Practice 1
- BPA4003 - Research Project
- BPA4004 - Creative Practice 2
Background
Renée Newman is an educator and performance maker. Her performance interests/credits include co-authorship writing techniques; site specific performance and audio (walking) performance; contemporary performance; and dramaturgy. In her art and scholarship Newman is interested intersections in art and ‘care’ – for self, society, ecology and beyond. She is a senior lecturer at WAAPA at ECU, Course Coordinator of the Bachelor of Performing Arts Honours and current Associate Dean (Research) WAAPA and published for Educational Philosophy Theory; Sustainability; Theatre, dance and performance training journal; Platform; and Performance Research as well as Routledge.
Professional associations
- Blue Room Theatre (Member)
- Media and Entertainment Arts Alliance - MEAA (Member)
- National Tertiary Education Union - NTEU (Member)
Awards and recognition
National and International awards
- 2024 - Nominee for Best Performance; Best New Work; Best Contemporary or Experimental Performance; Best Mainstage Production at Performing Arts of Western Australia (PAWA) Awards for 'Catastrophes'
- 2014 - Best Production The Blue Room Theatre for 'Those who fall in love like anchors dropped upon the ocean floor'
- 2015 - Best Independent Production Performing Arts of Western Australia (PAWA) Awards for 'Those who fall in love like anchors dropped upon the ocean floor'
- 2018 - Nominee Best Sound Design - Ben Collins Performing Arts of Western Australia (PAWA) Awards for 'Seeking basic needs and other tales of excess'
- 2006 - Nominee/Shortlisted Fulbright Postgraduate Award in Visual and Performing Arts
University and National Teaching awards
- 2016 - Nominee ECU Supervisor Award
Research areas and interests
- Arts and social enquiry
- Social justice, environmental and political arts
- Performance praxis/research
- Practice-led research
- Arts and ethics
- Site Specific Performance
- Sustainability
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