Key details
Professor Mark O’Thomas
Visiting Professor
Professor Mark O'Thomas is a Visiting Professor at the University of Greenwich. Prior to this he was formerly Pro Vice Chancellor of the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences, Dean of Academic Affairs at Newcastle University, Head of the School of Fine & Performing Arts at the University of Lincoln and the founding Director of the Institute for Performing Arts at the University of East London. Mark also spent ten years at the BBC as a subtitler and channel director. He has worked as a playwright, translator and dramaturg for a number of theatres including Soho Theatre, The Royal Court Theatre and the Royal National Theatre, and has adapted a vast array of novels for the stage where his credits include Jorge Amado's Dona Flor and her Two Husbands and Fernando Pessoa's Book of Disquiet.
Awards
Grants awarded
2017 ESRC Impact Acceleration Award
2017 Santander International Travel Award
2016 Canada/UK Foundation
2012 AHRC Translating Cultures (PI)
2011 STORM (EU Culture Fund)
Recognition
Fellow of RSA, SFHEA, Area Chair PCA
Mark is on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Learning & Teaching
Research / Scholarly interests
Mark is Associate Editor of Revista Brasileira de Estudos da Presença - the Brazilian Journal on Presence Studies - and his main research interest lays at the interface between translation, adaptation and dramaturgy. His work in this area has crossed many disciplines including musicology, film, literary and translation studies but his main focus remains on performance writing.
Mark is currently working on editing a new collection of essays on the Netflix anthology series American Horror Story as well as co-editing (along with Greenwich colleagues Dr Harry Derbyshire and Dr Nicholas Holden) a special issue of the journal Comparative Drama.
Media activity
Selected work for the stage
2014 Sadness and Joy in the Lives of Giraffes Theatre Royal York/Company of Angels
2013 PIIGS – Royal Court Theatre
2013 Feast Young Vic Theatre, London (extended run)
2012 The Ritual Royal National Theatre: Cottesloe
Connections 2012
2010 Ank !Ang! Company of Angels/Southwark Playhouse
2009 The Invisible Workers - Royal Court Theatre
2007 Agreste - Lyric Hammersmith Theatre, London Arts Council of England commission
2004 Almost Nothing/At The Table - Royal Court Theatre