CONTRIBUTOR:

Matthew Reason

AFFILIATION:

TITLE:

Director

DEPARTMENT:

Institute for Social Justice

INSTITUTION:

York St John University

BIOGRAPHY:

Matthew Reason is Professor of Theatre and Director of the Institute for Social Justice at York St John University, UK. His current focus is on experiential and phenomenological responses to theatre and dance performance, including through qualitative and participatory audience research. His books include Documentation, Disappearance and the Representation of Live Performance (2006), The Young Audience (2010), Kinesthetic Empathy in Creative and Cultural Contexts (with Dee Reynolds 2012), Experiencing Liveness (with Anja Lindelof 2016) and Applied Practice (with Nick Rowe 1017). He is co-editing the forthcoming Routledge Companion to Audiences and the Performing Arts (2022). For further information visit www.matthewreason.com