Dr Marisa Carr (Artist Name Marisa Carnesky) is an Associate Lecturer at the School of Art, Architecture and Design.
Dr Marisa Carr
Dr Marisa Carr (Artist Name - Marisa Carnesky) is an Olivier award winning multi-disciplinary theatre artist. She makes small and large scale works including the critically acclaimed 'Carnesky's Ghost Train' and most recently 'Dr Carnesky's Incredible Bleeding Woman'.
She's also an Associate Lecturer at the School of Art, Architecture and Design and her research is focussed on notions of the Showwoman, taboo breaking women entertainers, activist theatre and new cabaret forms.
Dr Marisa Carr's lectures combine research on semiotics, 20th-century experimental theatre history and contemporary performance practices. She explores theatrical devices and forms and the way performance engages with themes and issues around cultural identity, ecology, gender and diversity. She's particularly interested in examples of current practitioners who defy boundaries of genre.
Dr Carr teaches modules for a number of undergraduate courses within the School of Art, Architecture and Design, including:
Dr Marisa Carr
Associate Lecturer
m.carr@londonmet.ac.uk