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Dear Members and Friends of TaPRA, We would like to say a big thank you to everyone who contributed to making our 2024 conference at Northumbria University a huge success! Our 2024 conference had [...]

The Theatre and Performance Research Association Executive Committee recognises that many people in our community are deeply impacted by the devastating events in Gaza, Palestine, Israel and [...]

TaPRA is an organisation committed to action-led care, anti-exclusion, and anti-oppression. Following those commitments, we express our solidarity with trans and non-binary scholars, artists, [...]

We are delighted to welcome Sharanya Murali and Arabella Stanger to the TaPRA Executive, sharing the role of Research Officer: Development. Their contact details are available here and we have [...]

The calls for participation for the TaPRA 2023 annual conference, to be held at University of Leeds from 30 August to 1 September, have now been published. All calls can be found [...]

The Theatre and Performance Research Association’s Working Group in Theatre, Performance and Philosophy seeks three new conveners to take up the roles before the next annual conference. [...]

Nominations open until 28 October 2022 for Working Group Coordinator and Research Officer (Awards) on TaPRA Executive Committee We are currently seeking nominations for two vitally important [...]

Honorary Life Memberships are conferred upon individuals who have made a significant contribution to TaPRA as an organisation. Current Life Members are: Paul Allain Jackie Bratton Gilli [...]

TaPRA and Showtown, Blackpool are delighted to announce the 2022 TaPRA Fellowship scheme designed to provide a funded research opportunity for a post-doctoral early career researcher (ECR) who [...]

The shortlists for three of the 2022 TaPRA prizes have now been announced: TaPRA Postgraduate Essay Prize 2022 Shortlist The TaPRA Postgraduate Essay Prize aims to recognise and support excellent [...]