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Liselle Terret
Liselle Terret (also known as Doris La Trine ) is currently a co-programme leader and a senior lecturer at the University of East London. With over twenty years of experience within the field as a teacher, facilitator, and manager of Applied Theatre related projects within and outside of the UK working with a diverse selection of marginalised groups in society.

They recently won the UEL Winner of CELT 2018 Enhancing First Year Student Experience Award for a piece written about Defiant Bodies: A Punk Rock Queer Cabaret: Cripping and Queering Emancipatory Disability Research. The piece was co-written by Emma Selwyn as part of the book Drama Research Methods: Provocations of Practice.

Career
Liselle Terret has worked as a teacher, lecturer and with numerous companies such as Half Moon Young People’s Theatre Company, Unicorn Theatre, Pascal Theatre, Graeae Theatre, and formed Unmask Theatre with Vishni Velada Billson.

Lecturing/ Teaching Career
Terret's career within the education system as a drama teacher and then moved to fulfilling a role with in a special needs school. Following this they took a role at the Central School of Speech and Drama leading a Performance Making Diploma for learning disabled students. The diploma was a partnership with Access All Areas a company that makes urban, disruptive performance with learning disabled and autistic artists. Their role at the Central School of Speech and Drama spanned eight years.

Furthering their role within the educational system they took a role at Coventry University teaching Applied Theatre as a senior lecturer before taking up their current role at the University of East London. Their role at the University of East London has enabled the university to create partnerships with companies they have worked with such as the Half Moon Young People's Theatre Company.

Half Moon Young People's Theatre Company
Terret's career at Half Moon began in 1998 until early 2000s. While working at Half Moon they were the Education Officer. Their excitement to develop their new role,describing how they worked with other artists and disabled young people. Their passion within their role at Half Moon Young People's Theatre Company is highlighted in an interview on the company's website.

Writing
Liselle Terret's published written work has spanned over a decade. They have written multiple pieces for the Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance. Pieces such as Theatre in Health Care, The Boy in the Dress: queering Mantle of the Expert and Move Over, There's Room Enough: Performance Making Diploma: training for learning disabled adults. These pieces were published online from 2012 to 2015. As well as this they also wrote a chapter in a book written by Sheila Preston called ''Applied Theatre: Facilitation Pedagogies, Practices, Resilience. Their chapter'' Repositioning the Learning- Disabled Performing Arts Student as Critical Facilitator explores difficulties learning disabled students face within higher education.