Sarah Blissett (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher and dramaturg working between visual art and performance. She is lecturer in Drama at the University of Plymouth where her research explores how site-specific practices can engage with changing ocean ecologies at time of climate crisis. She is interested in embodied ways of working with intertidal environments and multispecies communities in performance with a focus on algae and seaweeds. She is the guest editor of the issue of CSPA Quarterly on ‘Intertidal Encounters’ (Jan 2025). Recent work includes: Alluvial Matters gallery 333, Exeter Phoenix (2024) Marking Tidetime (2022-present) artistic research project and audio walk, River Rememberings performance at Modern Art Oxford gallery (2022), How Nature Builds workshop series at MAO (2019, 2022), Kelp Curing, workshops and exhbition in Lofoten, Norway, as part of the Lofoten International Arts Festival inaugural ‘Kelp Congress’ (2019). Sarah is the founder and co-director of SOAK Live Art CIC, a platform for multidisciplinary performance by South West artists.

I welcome enquiries from prospective PhD students, particularly those with research projects exploring reparative social-ecological practices, site-specific performance, feminist performance or contemporary live art and performance.

ASTR (American Society of Theatre Research)

PSi (Performance Studies International)

TaPRA (Theatre and Performance Research Association)

IFTR (International Federation for Theatre Research)

• Site-Specific Performance
• Theatre & Performance Ecology
• Dramaturgy & Theatre Criticism
• Feminist Performance
• Immersive & Multimedia Performance