Emily Kreider
Senior Lecturer
Drama
Thanks for visiting my profile. I am a US/UK based award winning teacher, creative and leader of practice and experiential learning. I joined the Drama department in 2014, invited for my industry expertise and practice led teaching. My primary focus is to activate and encourage technically skilled and thoughtful creatives to deliver ambitiously in a variety of contexts, working as intellectually brave and imaginative practitioners and facilitators.
I was Director of Education for Drama between 2018-2022. With Erin Walcon (Doorstep Arts) I designed and am the current Director for the MFA Theatre Practice at Exeter. I am Senior Academic Lead for Drama's practice and industry facing (education) staff. I lead across Communications, Drama and Film as Senior Tutor for undergraduate and postgraduate students, to support a learning culture of agency, access and resilience.
I am interested in how the dynamics of Arts and Drama studio processes inform practical methodologies of considered risk taking, personal stretch, trust and care in rigorous collaboration. I have worked nationally and internationally in a range of performance, creative and learning spaces. I work to demystify and clarify the conditions for courage through embodied and dialogic practices.
Areas of practice and learning:
- physical performance, visual theatre, creative leadership and contemporary practice
- contemporary theatre making, acting, movement direction, devising, creative practice
- approaches to comedy in performance, stand up, writing and physical comedy
- music in performance, soundtrack design and live sound
- space holding and workshop delivery, facilitation
- healthy working practices, the conditions for courage in organisational cultures, practice led teaching and innovation
As a performer and theatre maker I originallly trained in Paris at the prestigious International School of Jacques Lecoq for two years and went on to receive the L.E.M. certificate (Laboratory of Movement): an extension of the Lecoq training dedicated to researching the live experience and dynamics of space, form and architecture in performance practice. Throughout my career I have created, performed in and produced award winning national and international touring productions, contributed to knowledge sharing and arts led conferences, and proposed new models of people centred mentorship and creative leadership in Higher Education. I founded the all female visual theatre company Jammy Voo Theatre in 2009, performing and touring with their work regularly (Norway, UK, Algeria, France, Prague, Poland, India) for over fifteen years.
I have worked with renowned practitioners such as Angela DeCastro (Slava's Snowshow), Toby Jones (Harry Potter), Jos Houben (Complicite), Peta Lily (David Glass Ensemble), Omar Elerian (Bush Theatre, Royal Court, Misty), Yngvild Aspeli (Plexus Polair, Nordland Visual Theatre) to create critically recognised practice (Jammy Voo, Total Theatre Award for 'Innovation, Experimentation and Playing with Form', Edinburgh Festival). My creative practice has been championed by the national and international press (Guardian, BBC Culture Show, The Stage), reaching audiences from rural coastal Cornwall to National Theatre, Algeria.
I am interested in how shared experience leads to understanding and rigorous connection, which in turn leads to trusting ourselves and others, improving how we engage with, lead, encounter and advocate in the world we share. I welcome evolving models of sharing practice that opens outwards and reaches audiences of all kinds.
