The Sound of a Shared Intimacy (Leonie Persyn)

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Leonie Persyn, is a dramaturg, performance maker and academic, who has just graduated from the Ghent University at the Department of Music, Visual Arts and Performance Studies supervised by Christine Stapert and Martine Huvenne. She was trained as a visual artist (Sint-Lucas, Antwerp) and as an Art historian (Ghent) and her PhD project is entitled THE SOUND OF A SHARED INTIMACY. A PHENOMENOLOGICAL RESEARCH INTO SOUND(ING) AND LISTENING IN PERFORMANCE PRACTICES. She defended her thesis in September 2024.

Lynne Kendrick works at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama as Reader for New Theatre Practices. In 2011 she and David co-edited a book entitled "Theatre Noise. The Sound of Performance" and in 2017 she published Theatre Aurality – a core text on audiences experience of sound-based theatre. She has also founded and directed theatre companies such as Camden People’s Theatre. Lynne was a member of the review committee of Leonie’s PhD and is thus also an early reader of her work.