Liesbeth Groot Nibbelink

Liesbeth Groot Nibbelink is Assistant Professor in Theatre and Performance Studies at Utrecht University, and also the coordinator of the master’s programme in Contemporary Theatre, Dance and Dramaturgy. Her research interests include dramaturgy and scenography, spatial theory, performance ecology and new materialism, and performance philosophy. She is the author of Nomadic Theatre: Mobilizing Theory and Practice on the European Stage (Bloomsbury, 2019) and has contributed to, among others, the edited volumes Thinking Through Theatre and Performance (Bloomsbury 2019), Staging Spectators in Immersive Performances (Routledge, 2019), and Intermedial Performance and Politics in the Public Sphere (Routledge, 2018). In 2013, she co-founded Platform-Scenography, an open-source platform invested in deepening the understanding of scenographic working and thinking. She is also active as a dramaturg and artistic adviser.