Lois Weaver

 Lois Weaver is an independent performance artist, director, activist and lecturer in Contemporary Performance at Queen Mary University of London. Her work includes live art, solo performance, feminist and lesbian theatre, performance and human rights.

CURRENT PROJECTS 

What Tammy Needs to Know A trailer trash crash course led by Tammy WhyNot, country western singer turned lesbian performance artist.

Diary of a Domestic Terrorist A lecture performance that promotes the use of private details as a means of public resistance.

Library of Performing Rights An actual and virtual library, housing documentation on human rights and performance.

PERFORMANCE BASED RESEARCH PROJECTS

Long Tables, Staging Human Rights, Democratising Technology, Dress Suits to Hire, A Translation Across Time and Cultures and East End Collaborations 

CURRENT COLLABORATIONS

Peggy Shaw, Curious, Clod Ensemble, Live Art Development Agency, Stacy Makishi, Holly Hughes and Marissa Carnesky 

UPCOMING PUBLICATIONS

Doing Time A personal and practical account of making performance work in prisons Reader in Applied Theatre, Dr Sheila Preston, Tim Prentki eds, Routledge (forthcoming)

Make Something A manifesto for making performance Performing Global Feminisms, Elaine Aston, Sue-Ellen Case eds. Palgrave Macmillan, 2007