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Nadine Holdsworth is a Professor of Theatre and Performance at the University of Warwick, where she has been since 2000 and served as Head of Department (2009–2014). Her research focuses on political theatre, national identity, gender, ethnicity, and globalization, with recent work addressing arts and homelessness. She holds a PhD and BA from Loughborough University.
Her key publications include English Theatre and Social Abjection: A Divided Nation (2020) and The Ecologies of Amateur Theatre (2018), which won the TaPRA David Bradby Award. She co-edits Contemporary Theatre Review and contributes to journals like New Theatre Quarterly. Her current projects involve co-creative methodologies with homeless communities, such as the 'Homeless Monopoly' board game and legislative theatre initiatives for policy reform.
Holdsworth’s research bridges academic and applied theatre, emphasizing ethics, cultural democracy, and community activism. She has advised Coventry’s arts initiatives and contributed to documentaries on Joan Littlewood and John McGrath. Her work interrogates how theatre challenges social divides and reimagines national and cultural narratives.
