Professor Mark  O’Thomas

Professor Mark O’Thomas BA, MA, PGCE, PhD

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