Nicholas Johnson is Assistant Professor in Drama at TCD, as well as a performer, director, and writer. Recent Beckett practice includes Cascando with Pan Pan (Beckett Theatre, 2016), No’s Knife with Lisa Dwan (Lincoln Center, 2015), and the ongoing practice-as-research project Ill Seen Ill Said with Scott Hamilton and Matthew Causey. He co-conceived and performed in Abstract Machines: The Televisual Beckett (ATRL, 2010) and Three Dialogues (ATRL, 2011). In 2012 he directed Ethica: Four Shorts by Samuel Beckett, presenting Play, Come and Go, Catastrophe, and What Where in Bulgaria, Dublin, the Enniskillen Festival 2013, and Áras an Uachtaráin for World Human Rights Day. He co-edited the Journal of Beckett Studies special issue on performance (23.1, 2014) with Jonathan Heron. He is a founding co-director of the Beckett Summer School and co-convenor of the Samuel Beckett Working Group for IFTR. In 2016 he held a visiting research fellowship at Yale University.
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