Bernadette Cochrane joined UQ in 2014 as a Lecturer in Theatre and Performance in the School of Communication and Arts. She has taught on historical and contemporary drama, dramaturgical theory and performance-making. Her current teaching responsiblities include particular reference to European theatre of the twentieth-century, and directing and dramaturgy. Bernadette, as part of the UQ Drama team, was received the 2018 Award for Programs that Enhance Learning for the "UQ Drama: Building Pathways to Creative Careers" project. In 2016, again as part of the UQ Drama team, she received a Commendation for Teaching Excellence, Prior to joining UQ, Bernadette was a freelance arts worker with a particular focus on directing and dramaturgy. Bernadette completed her dramaturgical PhD at the University of Queensland in 2013.
Her co-edited anthology New Dramaturgy: International Perspectives on Theory and Practice was published by Methuen in 2014. She is a major contributor to The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Stage Directors and Directing, edited by Maria Delgado and Simon Williams. Bernadette is a member of the Translation, Adaptation, and Dramaturgy Working Group of the International Federation of Theatre Research. She is also a Board Member for the Migrant Dramaturgies Network - the international research network developed in partnership with New Tides Platform (UK) and the Centre for Theatre Research at the University of Lisbon, Portugal - which explores emerging dramaturgies of theatrical responses to migration in light of recent migration and shifts in global politics and economics. Bernadette is currently researching the intersection of live performance, cinema, institutional dramaturgies, and cultural production; and contemporary theatrical representations of Otherness.
Bernadette welcomes applications for higher research degree supervision in: directing, dramaturgy, Early Modern performance practice; theatre and the digital humanities; liveness in contemporary performance, and theatrical cultural production.
2016 “Mediating Authorship: The Live Relay and Postdramatic Mediaturgies”. Invited speaker for the Postdramatic Mediaturgies conference which was part of the interuniversity project on "Literature and Media Innovation: The Question of Genre Transformations" for the Centre for Literary and Intermedial Crossings (CLIC) (Brussels, Ohio State and Université du Québec à Montréal.)
2017 “(Re)mediating Remains of Authorship” . Invited speaker for “Theatre Workings” the public seminar series run by the Central School of Speech and Drama
2018 Board Member, Migrant Dramaturgies Network. An international research network composed of academics, theatre-makers and arts organisations. https://migrantdramaturgies.tumblr.com
Journal Article: Adjacent to the live: paratextual augmentation of performance during the pandemic
Cochrane, Bernadette and Bonner, Frances (2022). Adjacent to the live: paratextual augmentation of performance during the pandemic. Body, Space and Technology, 21 (1). doi: 10.16995/bst.8005
Other Outputs: "Liminality" in Invisible Diaries
Cochrane, Bernadette (2020). "Liminality" in Invisible Diaries. London, United Kingdom: Dramaturg's Network.
Journal Article: Screened Live: Technologically Reconfiguring Notions of the Author.
Cochrane, Bernadette (2020). Screened Live: Technologically Reconfiguring Notions of the Author.. Body, Space & Technology, 19 (1), 174-192. doi: 10.16995/BST.338
Book Chapter: Blurring the lines: adaptation, transmediality, intermediality and screened performance
Cochrane, Bernadette (2018). Blurring the lines: adaptation, transmediality, intermediality and screened performance. The Routledge companion to adaptation. (pp. 340-348) Abingdon, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom: Taylor and Francis. doi: 10.4324/9781315690254
Book: New Dramaturgy : International Perspectives on Theory and Practice
Katalin Trencsényi and Bernadette Cochrane eds. (2014). New Dramaturgy : International Perspectives on Theory and Practice. London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Publishing. doi: 10.5040/9781408177075
(2021–2022) Flinders University
ResTeach 2013 0.05 FTE School of English, Media Studies and Art History
(2013) UQ ResTeach
The Dramaturgy of the Revival Ballet
Doctor Philosophy
The Traveller's Woven Path: Digital Game Theory, Dramaturgy, and Audience Experience in Ergodic Theatre
Doctor Philosophy
Survival on the fringe: Investigating the cultural conditions affecting fringe festival production and reception
Doctor Philosophy
Adjacent to the live: paratextual augmentation of performance during the pandemic
Cochrane, Bernadette and Bonner, Frances (2022). Adjacent to the live: paratextual augmentation of performance during the pandemic. Body, Space and Technology, 21 (1). doi: 10.16995/bst.8005
"Liminality" in Invisible Diaries
Cochrane, Bernadette (2020). "Liminality" in Invisible Diaries. London, United Kingdom: Dramaturg's Network.
Screened Live: Technologically Reconfiguring Notions of the Author.
Cochrane, Bernadette (2020). Screened Live: Technologically Reconfiguring Notions of the Author.. Body, Space & Technology, 19 (1), 174-192. doi: 10.16995/BST.338
Blurring the lines: adaptation, transmediality, intermediality and screened performance
Cochrane, Bernadette (2018). Blurring the lines: adaptation, transmediality, intermediality and screened performance. The Routledge companion to adaptation. (pp. 340-348) Abingdon, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom: Taylor and Francis. doi: 10.4324/9781315690254
New Dramaturgy : International Perspectives on Theory and Practice
Katalin Trencsényi and Bernadette Cochrane eds. (2014). New Dramaturgy : International Perspectives on Theory and Practice. London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Publishing. doi: 10.5040/9781408177075
New Dramaturgy : International Perspectives on Theory and Practice
Katalin Trencsényi and Bernadette Cochrane eds. (2014). New Dramaturgy : International Perspectives on Theory and Practice. London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Publishing. doi: 10.5040/9781408177075
Playing the field: an interdisciplinary approach to immersive theatre
Lennox, Gabrielle and Cochrane, Bernadette (2021). Playing the field: an interdisciplinary approach to immersive theatre. Undergraduate research in theatre: a guide for students. (pp. 177-180) London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003023807-15
Blurring the lines: adaptation, transmediality, intermediality and screened performance
Cochrane, Bernadette (2018). Blurring the lines: adaptation, transmediality, intermediality and screened performance. The Routledge companion to adaptation. (pp. 340-348) edited by Dennis Cutchins, Katja Krebs and Eckart Voigts. Abingdon, Oxon, United States: Routledge.
Blurring the lines: adaptation, transmediality, intermediality and screened performance
Cochrane, Bernadette (2018). Blurring the lines: adaptation, transmediality, intermediality and screened performance. The Routledge companion to adaptation. (pp. 340-348) Abingdon, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom: Taylor and Francis. doi: 10.4324/9781315690254
Afterword: in lieu of a conclusion
Trencsényi, Katalin and Cochrane, Bernadette (2014). Afterword: in lieu of a conclusion. New dramaturgy: international perspectives on theory and practice. (pp. 243-244) edited by Katalin Trencsényi and Bernadette Cochrane. London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury.
Trencsényi, Katalin and Cochrane, Bernadette (2014). Foreword. New Dramaturgy: international perspectives on theory and practice. (pp. xi-xx) edited by Katalin Trencsényi and Bernadette Cochrane. London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama.
Adjacent to the live: paratextual augmentation of performance during the pandemic
Cochrane, Bernadette and Bonner, Frances (2022). Adjacent to the live: paratextual augmentation of performance during the pandemic. Body, Space and Technology, 21 (1). doi: 10.16995/bst.8005
Screened Live: Technologically Reconfiguring Notions of the Author.
Cochrane, Bernadette (2020). Screened Live: Technologically Reconfiguring Notions of the Author.. Body, Space & Technology, 19 (1), 174-192. doi: 10.16995/BST.338
Dramaturgy: the “intellectual mise-en-scène” [1] of performance
Cochrane, Bernadette (2019). Dramaturgy: the “intellectual mise-en-scène” [1] of performance. NiTRO.
Screening from the Met, the NT, or the House: what changes with the live relay
Cochrane, Bernadette and Bonner, Frances (2014). Screening from the Met, the NT, or the House: what changes with the live relay. Adaptation, 7 (2), 121-133. doi: 10.1093/adaptation/apu015
Ours as we play it: Australia plays Shakespeare
Cochrane, Bernadette (2012). Ours as we play it: Australia plays Shakespeare. Theatre Research International, 37 (2), 191-192. doi: 10.1017/S0307883312000132
Dramaturgical adjacencies: paratextual augmentation of performance
Cochrane, Bernadette (2022). Dramaturgical adjacencies: paratextual augmentation of performance. International Federation of Theatre Research, Reykjavik, Iceland, 20-24 June 2022.
Capitalising on the back catalogue: streaming theatre in the age of COVID
Cochrane, Bernadette (2021). Capitalising on the back catalogue: streaming theatre in the age of COVID. Post-Covid-19 Art Worlds: Viral Theatre, Precarity and Medical Humanities, Hannover, Germany, 12-23 July 2021.
The Digital and Live: Three in one? On NT Live audiences and communality
Cochrane, Bernadette and Liedke, Heidi (2020). The Digital and Live: Three in one? On NT Live audiences and communality. Australasian Drama Studies Association, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 2-5 December 2020.
Live Screening: a dramaturgical nexus of popularity, populism, and urbanization
Cochrane, Bernadette (2019). Live Screening: a dramaturgical nexus of popularity, populism, and urbanization. International Federation of Theatre Research, Shanghai Theatre Academy, Shanghai, 8-12 July 2109.
Aesthetics Squared: twenty-first century theatrical convergences and the ‘live relay'
Cochrane, Bernadette (2018). Aesthetics Squared: twenty-first century theatrical convergences and the ‘live relay'. Actors and Acting in the Twenty-First Century. In: Australasian Association for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies, Melbourne, Australia, 26-29 June 2018.
Ethics, Agency, and the ‘Other’: plays resisting translation
Cochrane, Bernadette (2018). Ethics, Agency, and the ‘Other’: plays resisting translation. Theatre and Migration: Theatre, Nation and Identity: Between Migration and Stasis, Belgrade, Serbia, 9-13 July 2018.
The Secret River: plays resisting translation
Cochrane, Bernadette and Ackhurst, Graham (2018). The Secret River: plays resisting translation. Translating for the Stage: Translating on the Stage, Oxford, United Kingdom, 12-14 January 2018.
Remaindering the remains: the digital, the live, and the archive
Cochrane, Bernadette (2016). Remaindering the remains: the digital, the live, and the archive. International Federation of Theatre Research - Presenting the Theatrical Past: Interplays of Artefacts, Discourses and Practices, Stockholm University, 13-17 June 2016.
Trencsényi, Katalin and Cochrane, Bernadette (2014). New Dramaturgy. Theatre and Stratification. In Translation, Adaptation, and Dramaturgy Working Group at the annual conference of the International Federation of Theatre Research, Warwick, United Kingdom, 28 July-1 August 1 2014.
Slip sliding away: what changes with the live relay
Cochrane, Bernadette and Bonner, Frances (2014). Slip sliding away: what changes with the live relay. From Theatre to Screen and Back Again, Leicester, United Kingdom, 19 February 2014.
Wires, Strings, and Pipes: Automatous Perceptions of Hermione.
Cochrane, Bernadette (2014). Wires, Strings, and Pipes: Automatous Perceptions of Hermione.. Shakespearean Perceptions. In Australia and New Zealand Shakespeare Association, Toowoomba, QLD, Australia, 2-4 October 2014.
Dramaturgically modelling structure
Cochrane, Bernadette (2013). Dramaturgically modelling structure. Re-routing Performance. In International Federation of Theatre Research, Barcelona, Spain, 21-26 July 2013.
Cochrane, Bernadette and Lawrence, Alan (2012). Picture This: NT Live or Not. Mediating Performance. In International Federation of Theatre Research, Santiago, Chile, 22-28 July 2012.
The opportunities of reduced distance
Cochrane, Bernadette (2020). The opportunities of reduced distance. Doing arts research in a pandemic: a crowd-sourced document responding to the challenges arising from COVID-19. (pp. 50-52) edited by Vida L. Midgelow. London, United Kingdom: The Culture Capital Exchange.
"Liminality" in Invisible Diaries
Cochrane, Bernadette (2020). "Liminality" in Invisible Diaries. London, United Kingdom: Dramaturg's Network.
Trenscényi, Katalin, Cochrane, Bernadette, Carleton, Stephen and Kelly, Kathryn (2019). New dramaturgy: a roundtable. Brisbane, Australia: University of Queensland.
Bernadette Cochrane, Trencsényi, Katalin, Campbell, Alyson and Dorney, Marcel (2019). New dramaturgy: a roundtable. Melbourne, Australia: Victorian College of the Arts.
Cochrane, Bernadette, Trenscényi, Katalin, Campbell, Alyson, Carleton, Stephen, Dorney, Marcel and Kelly, Kathryn (2019). New Dramaturgies. Brisbane, Australia: University of Queensland.
Musca, Szabolcs, Parmiani, Lara, McFadden, Becka, Cochrane, Bernadette, Angelaki, Vicky, Jeffers, Alison, Correa, Graca and Paire, Roxanne (2019). Migrations: Harbour Europe. London, United Kingdom: Migrant Dramaturgies Network.
Dramaturgy, playtext and structure
Cochrane, Mary (2013). Dramaturgy, playtext and structure. PhD Thesis, School of English, Media Studies and Art History, The University of Queensland.
(2021–2022) Flinders University
ResTeach 2013 0.05 FTE School of English, Media Studies and Art History
(2013) UQ ResTeach
The Dramaturgy of the Revival Ballet
Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
The Traveller's Woven Path: Digital Game Theory, Dramaturgy, and Audience Experience in Ergodic Theatre
Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
Other advisors:
Survival on the fringe: Investigating the cultural conditions affecting fringe festival production and reception
Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
Other advisors:
(2022) Master Philosophy — Principal Advisor
Other advisors:
The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies and Sensible Magic: The Art of Kinesthetic Research
(2022) Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
Other advisors:
Might I Have A Bit of Earth: A Contemporary Theatrical Reimagining of The Secret Garden
(2019) Master Philosophy — Associate Advisor
Other advisors:
Brecht in India: The Poetics and Politics of Transcultural Theatre
(2018) Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
Other advisors: