MATILDA LIU
Theatre director and scholar
Academic & Creative Experience
1 / TaPRA conference 2024 presenter
Creating the virtual space: The immersive experience via theatre broadcast - a case study of the Bridge Theatre's A Midsummer Night's Dream (2019)
2 / British Shakespeare Association Conference 2024 presenter
Two Lears - The Legacies of the BBC and Granada’s King Lear (1982) (1983) to Adapting Shakespeare for Broadcast Theatre
3 / Symposium 2024 presenter University of Nottingham
Making theatre specifically for screen - a case study of NTLive's Romeo and Juliet (2021)
MEET MATILDA LIU
Matilda Liu is an experienced director, scholar and sometimes playwright.
She has been studying a PhD in Drama at University of Nottingham. She specialises in digital and broadcast theatre, exploring the institutional changes brought about by broadcasting theatre productions within both subsidised and commercial venues. Her research delves into the creative processes of classical and contemporary theatre productions, with a keen interest in the future of new theatre-making.
She has been paved by a true passion for theatre. She's interested in making theatre out of multimedia and stimulus, adaptation and verbatim theatre.Previous projects include directing Mine Eyes Have Seen for Evolution Labs, participant deviser & performer at Lyric Hammersmith Theatre, TFTI Showreel at University of York, director for Lovestruck, The Outsiders at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.Writing experience includes short film Coins Coins Coins Again, Once Burgled.
