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Caroline Wake is Senior Lecturer in Theatre and Performance at the University of New South Wales, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. She is a member of the Forced Migration Research Network and associate of the Australian Human Rights Institute. Her academic work focuses on the relationship between theatre and history, with particular interest in artists with refugee and asylum seeker backgrounds, theatres of the real, and organizations like Performance Space in Sydney.
Her research interests include Performing Arts and Creative Writing, Drama and Theatre Studies, Performance and Installation Art, Migration, and Migrant Cultural Studies. Wake specializes in how theatre responds to and represents history, and how theatre's own history is archived and recounted in Australia, particularly focusing on artists and genres typically excluded from mainstream Australian theatre history.
Wake's publications demonstrate significant trends in performance studies with a focus on migration, refugee narratives, and documentary theatre. Her work bridges academic research with practical applications in the theatre industry, often collaborating with major Australian arts organizations. She has been ranked in the top 2% globally in her discipline according to Stanford University's citation analysis (2022).
Selected Awards:
- 2020: Highly commended for the Australasian Drama Studies Association's Marlis Thiersch Prize
- 2019: Nominated for Theatre and Performance Research Association's Research Prize for Editing
- 2014: Winner of the Australasian Drama Studies Association's Marlis Thiersch Prize
- 2006: Winner of the Australasian Drama Studies Association's Veronica Kelly Prize
- 2020: Winner of the UNSW Vice Chancellor's Teaching Award for Innovation in Curriculum Design
Wake has successfully supervised numerous PhD, Masters, and Honours students, with current supervision focusing on Stateless Play, New Play Development, Co-authoring Playtext with Community, and Frontiers of Spectatorship. She has secured over $1.4 million in grant funding since 2015, including multiple Australian Research Council grants that involve collaboration with major arts organizations including the National Institute of Dramatic Art, Performing Arts Heritage Network, Sydney Theatre Company, and the Arts Centre Melbourne.
She currently serves as Associate Editor of Performance Research and on the editorial board of Liverpool University Press's Playwriting and the Contemporary series. Previously, she served on the Board of PACT Centre for Emerging Artists as Chair (2019-21) and as a regular member (2017-18), and was a Board Member of Performance Studies international.
