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Lois Weaver lectures in Contemporary Performance at Queen Mary University of London and is an independent performance artist, director and activist.

She was co-founder of Spiderwoman Theatre and the WOW Theatre in New York and Artistic Director of Gay Sweatshop Theatre in London. She has been a performer, director, and writer with the Split Britches Company since 1980. Her interests include live art, solo performance, feminist and lesbian theatre and performance and human rights. She was involved in Staging Human Rights, a People's Palace Project initiative that uses performance practice to explore human rights in women’s prisons in Brazil and the UK. She collaborated with Curious on two projects: On The Scent, an investigation of the relationship between smell and memory and Lost and Found, a human portrait of urban regeneration. She was director and dramaturge for Peggy Shaw's To My Chagrin and Holly Hughes’ Preaching To The Perverted. Lois was Artistic Director for Performing Rights, an international conference and festival on the themes of performance and human rights held in London in 2006 and is Producing Director for East End Collaborations, an annual platform for emerging live artists. She is currently principal investigator on Democratising Technology, a research project that uses performance techniques to initiate conversations on technology design. Lois tours with the Library of Performing Rights and What Tammy Needs To Know and is developing a new performance entitled Diary of a Domestic Terrorist.

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

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