Anna Birch Email & Phone Number

Professor Anna Birch FRSA is a theatre and film director who combines scholarly research with her professional experience. She pursues her feminist performance and recovery project to challenge the systematic erasure of women’s experience. Using site specific performance, outdoor screenings, marches and processions, book publishing and walks she creates artworks where participation, celebration and social justice are paramount. Her focus on eighteenth century human rights campaigner Mary Wollstonecraft who lived and worked on Newington Green near where Anna lives has generated numerous performance and film events worldwide. Her ‘living monuments’ feminist performance methodology can be found here: Wollstonecraft Walks app https://wollstonecraftwalks.netlify.app created with Scary Little Girls Feminist Performance Hub. In Mary Wollstonecraft and Newington Green: An Anthology edited by Emma Clery https://bit.ly/2QQZIQs Anna discusses Wollstonecraft’s impact on Parliament. In 2019 she was invited artist with Feminist Performance Creation in the City (Concordia, Montreal, Canada) www.performativeurbanism.com/feminist-performance-creation-the-c resulting in four new performance works and documentary https://vimeo.com/832706324?share=copy to show how the projects collaborative online work processes evolved during Covid 2020. With Professor Kathleen Irwin Embodied and En-Sited Performance: Reflections on Gender in two Performances in Analysing Gender in Performance (eds) Halferty, P and Leeney, C Palgrave was published in 2022. She contributed to Feminist Theatre - Then and Now - Aurora Metro & Supernova Books out now!Recently she has performed solo in a kitchen/ Covid film Rivers of Blood, director: Emmanouela Vogiatzaki-Krukowski, 2020 discussed in Dr Athena Stourner’s chapter The Domestic Kitchen as Performance Space: The Female Artist vs the Housewife – Critical Stages/Scènes critiques (critical-stages.org). She is looking forward to the premier of Performance Lethe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ_GRx6UbzM with opera singer Lore Lixenburg. A new iteration of The Food Project with Irwin and Stourner summer 2024 in Nafplion, Greece. A new chapter with Irwin Women’s Innovation in Theatre and Performance, Volume 3 Crafters and Co-edited by Greer Crawley and Carolina E. Santo. Bloomsbury is pending. Look out for the new Routledge companion to Site-specific performance edited by Cathy Turner and Victoria Hunter coming soon with a new chapter by me titled Expanding the notion of monument through performance.

Listed skills include Theatre, Drama, Lecturing, Art, and 46 others.