Contributors

Chloe Kathleen Preedy

Chloe Kathleen Preedy co-leads the AHRC-funded project Atmospheric Theatre: Open-Air Performance and the Environment. She is a Senior Lecturer in English (Shakespeare & Renaissance Literature) at the University of Exeter.

Chloe's research focuses mainly on early modern drama, with particular interests in the spatial dynamics of performance, the staging of religious conflict, and aerial dramaturgy. She is the author of Marlowe's Literary Scepticism: Politic Religion and Post-Reformation Polemic (2013), which won the Roma Gill Prize 2011-12. She co-edited a 2015 special issue of Cahiers Élisabéthains on Space on the Early Modern Stage with Laurence Publicover, and is currently co-editing a volume on Thomas Nashe with Rachel Willie. Her forthcoming publications include an Arden Early Modern Drama edition of Marlowe's The Jew of Malta, with William Sherman, and the project-related monograph Theatres of the Air: Representing Aerial Environments on the Early Modern Stage, 1576-1609.

Evelyn O'Malley

Evelyn O'Malley co-leads the AHRC-funded project Atmospheric Theatre: Open-Air Performance and the Environment. She is a Senior Lecturer in Drama at the University of Exeter.

Evelyn's research interests are within the environmental humanities, and her work considers open-air performance forms, weathering as performance, and climate in the theatre. Her monograph Weathering Shakespeare: Audiences and Open-Air Performance (2020) appears in Bloomsbury Academic’s Environmental Cultures series. With Randall Martin, she co-edited a special issue of Shakespeare Bulletin on Eco-Shakespeare in Performance and is contributing practice-research to the SSHRC Cymbeline in the Anthropocene project. She is also co-investigator on the interdisciplinary NERC-funded Climate Stories, led by Peter Stott (Met Office, Hadley Centre), and principal investigator on the AHRC Covid-19 rapid response Outside the Box with Cathy Turner (Drama) and Tim Coles (Business).

Richard Holding

Richard Holding is a Developer in the University of Exeter's Digital Humanities Lab, and the creator of the Atmospheric Theatre website.

Richard creates web resources for Digital Humanities research projects. His skills include the development of custom mapping solutions using the Leaflet JavaScript library, the creation of websites for managing and displaying digital collections using Omeka and eXist-db, and the design of websites and blogs in WordPress. Richard also advises academics and professional services staff on Digital Humanities aspects of bid writing for funders including the AHRC, identifying appropriate technologies and contributing details of development requirements for Data Management Plans.


Sarah Sharp

Sarah Sharp acted as an education consultant for the Atmospheric Theatre project from 2019-21, developing educational resources and running performance workshops with secondary-school pupils. Sarah also undertook fieldwork research as part of this project, and conducted the video interviews with Emma Gersch, Zoë Hudson, Natasha Magigi, and Stephen Purcell that you can view through this website.


Matthew Dowdall

Matthew Dowdall was a Public History research intern for the Atmospheric Theatre project in 2020-21, developing case studies of selected open-air theatre sites and companies. 


Jennifer Heyworth

Jennifer Heyworth is an undergraduate student currently studying History at the University of Exeter, with the goal of a career in Public History and Heritage. Jennifer worked on the Atmospheric Theatre project in 2020-21 as a Public History research intern, developing case studies of selected open-air theatre sites and companies. 


Courtney Priday

Courtney Priday is a BA English student at the University of Exeter with an interest in early modern drama and digital humanities. Courtney worked on the Atmospheric Theatre project as a Digital Humanities Advisory Intern in 2020, developing a database of open-air venues in the UK and contributing to the creation of project-related educational resources. 

Anna Rayson

Anna Rayson was a Public History research intern for the Atmospheric Theatre project in 2020-21, developing case studies of selected open-air theatre sites and companies. 


Project Partners

In developing the educational resources for this project, we were assisted by the Minack Theatre Education and Minack Academy teams, led by Associate Director John Brolly, and the Shakespeare Link team at the Willow Globe, including Sue Best, Philip Bowen, and Kama Roberts. We are very grateful to both the Minack Theatre and the Willow Globe for their support.